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Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman
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Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to turn Israel into a 21st century version of the Flying Dutchman. […]

Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees

Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees

07/27/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica

07/27/2025 By ProPublica

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Israel/ Palestine
Born Without Civil Rights:  Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank

Born Without Civil Rights: Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank

(Human Rights Watch The Israeli army has deprived generations of Palestinians in the West Bank of their basic civil rights, including the rights to free […]

Human Rights Watch

Democracy
Bush Falsely Promised a New Iraq, but now it is being Forged by Crowds in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square

Bush Falsely Promised a New Iraq, but now it is being Forged by Crowds in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square

After the death of hundreds of people since the eruption of Iraq’s revolution in October, there is no return to the old system.

Open Democracy

Christianity
Would Refugee Baby Jesus have been Torn from Mary’s Arms by Trump?

Would Refugee Baby Jesus have been Torn from Mary’s Arms by Trump?

Revised Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) | – – In this political season in which refugees have become a political football, it is worthwhile remembering that […]

Juan Cole

Brazil
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

By Liberty Vittert | – This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade. Much like […]

The Conversation

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That’s not Good. Popular ToTok App is Emirates Spyware

That’s not Good. Popular ToTok App is Emirates Spyware

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – ( Lily Hay Newman at Wired explores the implications of the revelation that the ToTok app is actually spyware for […]

Juan Cole

Solar Energy
Germany's Solar Power Revived by Home Batteries, Hopes for Skyscraper Rooftop PV

Germany’s Solar Power Revived by Home Batteries, Hopes for Skyscraper Rooftop PV

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Solar power in Germany has bottomed out from its breakdown a few years back […]

Clean Energy Wire

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The US Gov’t Lied About Success in the Afghanistan War . . . and in Vietnam

The US Gov’t Lied About Success in the Afghanistan War . . . and in Vietnam

By Gordon Adams | – The Washington Post has, after more than two years of investigation, revealed that senior foreign policy officials in the White […]

The Conversation

Counter-Terrorism
Gatsbyed Half to Death: Is America’s Trump Gilded Age another 9/11?

Gatsbyed Half to Death: Is America’s Trump Gilded Age another 9/11?

(Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s the question at hand — and I guarantee you that you’ll read it here first: Is Donald Trump the second or even […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Under Int'l Pressure Israel reverses ban on Hundreds of Gaza Christians visiting Holy Sites, though Cruel Blockade Continues

Under Int’l Pressure Israel reverses ban on Hundreds of Gaza Christians visiting Holy Sites, though Cruel Blockade Continues

N.B. The day after we published this piece, the Israeli government reversed itself and issued permits to Gaza Christians to visit their holy sites at […]

Juan Cole

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Gaza is Starving and the World Looks Away

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Kneecap’s Support for Gaza is in an Irish Tradition of Standing with the Oppressed

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25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now: Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths”

Juan Cole

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Protesting Georgetown U’s Sanctioning of Prof. Jonathan Brown for Speaking out on Iran War

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