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Misreading and Misrepresenting Iran
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Misreading and Misrepresenting Iran

Ali Abootalebi

Eau Clare, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On Friday, June 13th, Israel launched attacks on Iranian nuclear, military, and civilian targets, just days […]

US Sanctions on ICC Judges Highlight Pursuit of Selective Justice

US Sanctions on ICC Judges Highlight Pursuit of Selective Justice

07/02/2025 By Open Democracy

Feeding the Warfare State: We Lose, the Weapons Makers Win

Feeding the Warfare State: We Lose, the Weapons Makers Win

07/02/2025 By William D. Hartung

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Israel’s Netanyahu banks on TACO Trump as he Launches War on Iran to disrupt Negotiations

Israel’s Netanyahu banks on TACO Trump as he Launches War on Iran to disrupt Negotiations

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Juan Cole

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Threat to Rule of Law: Sen. Padilla thrown to Ground, Cuffed at Noem DHS Press Conference

Threat to Rule of Law: Sen. Padilla thrown to Ground, Cuffed at Noem DHS Press Conference

“This isn’t just shocking,” said Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.). “It’s a threat to the rule of law and democratic accountability.” By Jon Queally. | – […]

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Donald Trump
How Pete Rose and Donald Trump Are the Dregs of American “Masculinity”

How Pete Rose and Donald Trump Are the Dregs of American “Masculinity”

By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Thanks to our current misbegotten model of manhood, we are once again arguing about this moral question: Should […]

Tomdispatch

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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?

Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human-caused global heating is hitting the Middle East hard, and rates of cancer in Middle Eastern women are increasing. Is […]

Juan Cole

Haredim
Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

( Middle East Monitor ) – It may not have occurred to David Ben-Gurion 77 years ago, when he approved a limited exemption from military […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

By Jessica Whyte, UNSW Sydney and Sara Dehm, University of Technology Sydney (The Conversation) – The Australian government is imposing financial and travel sanctions on […]

The Conversation

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How Israeli and International Businesses and Financial Institutions Sustain Illegal Occupation

How Israeli and International Businesses and Financial Institutions Sustain Illegal Occupation

As the West Bank is being annexed to Israel through blood and violence, many Israeli and international businesses and financials are tacitly supporting the ethnic […]

Dan Steinbock

Africa
Ocean currents can generate electricity – and our Study shows Africa’s Seas have some of the Strongest

Ocean currents can generate electricity – and our Study shows Africa’s Seas have some of the Strongest

By James H. VanZwieten Jr., Florida Atlantic University; Gabriel Alsenas, Florida Atlantic University; Mahsan Sadoughipour, Florida Atlantic University, and Yufei Tang, Florida Atlantic University (The […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid: The United States and Israel

Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid: The United States and Israel

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a […]

Aviva Chomsky

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