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Islam:  A New History
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Islam: A New History

Joseph Richard Preville

A Review of Islam: A New History, from Muhammad to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2025) by John Tolan Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

As US Pushes For Zero Enrichment, Iran Insists It Won’t Give Up Nuclear Program

As US Pushes For Zero Enrichment, Iran Insists It Won’t Give Up Nuclear Program

05/22/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel’s Policies have already Created Catastrophic Starvation Risk for Millions in Gaza: a Trickle of Aid won’t Avert It

Israel’s Policies have already Created Catastrophic Starvation Risk for Millions in Gaza: a Trickle of Aid won’t Avert It

05/22/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
In Zeal to Cover up Crimes against Palestinians, are Israel Lobbies determined to End Free Speech in the West?

In Zeal to Cover up Crimes against Palestinians, are Israel Lobbies determined to End Free Speech in the West?

(Middle East Monitor ) – The entire western world is facing an almost unprecedented assault on freedom of speech – and Palestine is the issue […]

Asa Winstanley

Donald Trump
Corporate Media Blackout: Americans need to Hear from Iranians about Life Under Sanctions and Trump’s Attack

Corporate Media Blackout: Americans need to Hear from Iranians about Life Under Sanctions and Trump’s Attack

Here are a few illuminating and emotionally resonant pieces by real Iranians on life under sanctions, the brutality of war, and the recent crisis.

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Crisis
We need a Whole Revolution: Why Incremental Change won’t solve the Climate Crisis

We need a Whole Revolution: Why Incremental Change won’t solve the Climate Crisis

By Matthew Hoffmann and Steven Bernstein | – Work crews descended on 12 commuter parking lots in Toronto in late November 2018, and headed to […]

The Conversation

Corporate Surveillance
Did Saudi prince Bin Salman personally Hack Jeff Bezos's Phone, Vacuuming up Secrets? What about Jared Kushner?

Did Saudi prince Bin Salman personally Hack Jeff Bezos’s Phone, Vacuuming up Secrets? What about Jared Kushner?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Update 1/25/20: Subsequent reporting at WSJ and elsewhere has raised questions about how solid the conclusions were, of the cyber-security […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Yawns from Int'l Community as Israel Goes for Annexation of Palestine and Abandons 2-State Solution

Yawns from Int’l Community as Israel Goes for Annexation of Palestine and Abandons 2-State Solution

By Ramona Wadi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The EU is predicting an increase in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian dwellings and structures […]

Ramona Wadi

Pentagon
Why the Pentagon never Wins Wars any More but Needs Bigger and Bigger nearly trillion-dollar Budgets

Why the Pentagon never Wins Wars any More but Needs Bigger and Bigger nearly trillion-dollar Budgets

By Mandy Smithberger | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Call it a colossal victory for a Pentagon that hasn’t won a war in this century, but not […]

Tomdispatch

Displaced and Refugees
It's Not Just Vets:  Refugees and War-Crime Victims are also Vulnerable to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

It’s Not Just Vets: Refugees and War-Crime Victims are also Vulnerable to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

By Arash Javanbakht | – Mental health is often used in political discourse and arguments. Post-traumatic stress disorder was the subject Jan. 8, when Rep. […]

The Conversation

Congress
US Public on Trump:  Throw the Bum Out, He's a Failure on Iran, Health Care

US Public on Trump: Throw the Bum Out, He’s a Failure on Iran, Health Care

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new CNN poll done in mid-January (and reported by Jennifer Agiesta) finds that 51 percent of Americans favor the […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
A Dream Denied: Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King's death

A Dream Denied: Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death

By Sharon Austin | – On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back […]

The Conversation

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