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Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture
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Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture

H. Scott Prosterman

Tomer-Yerushalmi freely admits to leaking the video to expose the serious nature of the crimes she was investigating,

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The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

11/06/2025 By Human Rights Watch

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

11/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Epidemics
Downside of Globalization: Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients’ lives in the balance

Downside of Globalization: Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients’ lives in the balance

By Madlen Davies , Rosa Furneaux, and Ben Stockton | – ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) – As more coronavirus patients were admitted to […]

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Climate Crisis
Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate

Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate

By Tom Matthews and Colin Raymond | – The explosive growth and success of human society over the past 10,000 years has been underpinned by […]

The Conversation

Books
Fundamentalist Pandemics:  What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Fundamentalist Pandemics: What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

This essay by Juan Cole was originally published in Tomdispatch.com. See the original for a perceptive introductory essay by Tom Engelhardt. This spring, the novel […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

( Middle East Monitor ) – On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration […]

Ramzy Baroud

Displaced and Refugees
Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

By Marwa Mohamed | – (openDemocracy.net) – Libya today is facing its greatest challenge to date. In spite of years of internal conflict, the country […]

Open Democracy

Cults
The Church of QAnon: Will Trumpian conspiracy theories form the basis of a dangerous new religious movement?

The Church of QAnon: Will Trumpian conspiracy theories form the basis of a dangerous new religious movement?

By Marc-André Argentino | – Followers of the QAnon movement believe in wild and dangerous conspiracy theories about U.S. President Donald Trump. Now a faction […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mystery deepens. Late last Friday, Trump summarily fired the State Department Inspector General, Steve Linick. While in US law […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Workers in Israel and Coronavirus Vulnerability

Palestinian Workers in Israel and Coronavirus Vulnerability

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – The novel coronavirus pandemic, by its nature, highlights inequalities of race, class and gender in its victims. Palestine is […]

Mohammed Samaana

Donald Trump
The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus

The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus

By Lomi Kriel | – ( ProPublica) – The girls, 8 and 11, were alone in a rented room in a dangerous Mexican city bordering […]

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