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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line
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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Braga, Portugal and and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the final days of Israel’s eleven-day war with Iran, the targeted […]

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

06/28/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

06/28/2025 By The Conversation

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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. […]

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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

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

By Ramona Wadi | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

From the rise of organizations like Zero Hour to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement is only just getting started.

Waging Nonviolence

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What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid

What Martin Luther King Jr. Would have thought of Israeli anti-Palestinian Apartheid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called […]

Juan Cole

Australia
Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran's Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia's Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

Some Technology is Too Dangerous: Iran’s Accidental Ballistic Launch and Australia’s Climate Inferno are Trying to Tell us Something

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The first month of 2020 has been full of lessons—if we are willing to listen. With over […]

John Buell

Australia
Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia's Ecology Ever be the Same?

Climate Catastrophe: With a Billion Animals Dead and the Koala in Danger, Will Australia’s Ecology Ever be the Same?

By Darren Evans | – The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of […]

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