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Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
Donald Trump

Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the three criminal […]

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

07/01/2025 By The Conversation

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

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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

Biodiversity
The Earth and Human Beings must Be Saved Together

The Earth and Human Beings must Be Saved Together

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A postcard I use as a bookmarker contains a set of principles for gardening in urban soils […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Climate Crisis
Climate Breakdown makes Atmosphere Thirstier, Worsens Droughts

Climate Breakdown makes Atmosphere Thirstier, Worsens Droughts

By Solomon Gebrechorkos, University of Oxford (The Conversation) – Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe. But it’s not just changing rainfall […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Illegal and Immoral: Israel’s Kidnapping of Greta Thunberg and the Madleen Aid Ship on the High Seas

Illegal and Immoral: Israel’s Kidnapping of Greta Thunberg and the Madleen Aid Ship on the High Seas

By Adnan Hmidan ( Middle East Monitor ) – Once again, the so-called “most moral army in the world” flexes its muscle, not against a […]

Middle East Monitor

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