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Israel’s Shifting Politics
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Israel’s Shifting Politics

Hugh J. Curran

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – PM Benjamin Netanyahu has alienated many in Israeli society, some of whom now revile his leadership: The Times of Israel […]

A new Youth-led Lawsuit is challenging Trump’s Fossil Fuel Orders

A new Youth-led Lawsuit is challenging Trump’s Fossil Fuel Orders

08/03/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Why UK Recognition of a Palestinian State should not be conditional on Israel’s Actions

Why UK Recognition of a Palestinian State should not be conditional on Israel’s Actions

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A Trumpian Future for our Kids:  A Hot, Sweltering 1984

A Trumpian Future for our Kids: A Hot, Sweltering 1984

By Frida Berrigan | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Okay, I’ll admit it. Sometimes I can’t take the bad news. It’s too much. It’s so […]

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Trump's Ukraine Ask was Criminal; but it Was SCOTUS' Citizens United that Invited Foreign Interference in US Elections

Trump’s Ukraine Ask was Criminal; but it Was SCOTUS’ Citizens United that Invited Foreign Interference in US Elections

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is accused of soliciting the help of a foreign government to dig dirt on, essentially to do opposition research […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Dry Impeachment alone won't Save our Democracy: The Public has to Get Fired Up

Dry Impeachment alone won’t Save our Democracy: The Public has to Get Fired Up

Congress is officially moving toward impeaching the president. But even then, it’s up to the people to keep our republic.

Yes! Magazine

Donald Trump
Trump’s Assault on the Constitution: Politics as World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

Trump’s Assault on the Constitution: Politics as World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

(Otherwords.org ) -Either our system is going to break, or Trump’s finally going to fail. It’s an exhausting drama. Does Trump understand democracy? I’m really […]

Jill Richardson

Education
Trump v. Duke U.-UNC:  Why the Study of Cultures is Essential to our National Security

Trump v. Duke U.-UNC: Why the Study of Cultures is Essential to our National Security

By Nicholas Tampio | After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a commission formed to figure out why the attacks occurred. One of the culprits, […]

The Conversation

Israel
As Israel struggles to form a Government, why do its poorest immigrants vote for the right and far right?

As Israel struggles to form a Government, why do its poorest immigrants vote for the right and far right?

By Amandine Desille | – The Israeli election was held on September 17, but it remains unclear who – Benyamin Netanyahu (Likud) or his main […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Anti-Palestinianism is the modern day McCarthyism

Anti-Palestinianism is the modern day McCarthyism

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – As regular readers of this column will know, the McCarthyite atmosphere in Britain against supporters of Palestinian rights […]

Middle East Monitor

Arms Sales
Forget Nukes: Now for the Hypersonic Weapons Race

Forget Nukes: Now for the Hypersonic Weapons Race

( Tomdispatch.com) – Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 […]

Rajan Menon

Donald Trump
Pompeo, Complicit in Ukraine Call, hides behind the State Department he Persecuted in Benghazi Conspiracy Theory

Pompeo, Complicit in Ukraine Call, hides behind the State Department he Persecuted in Benghazi Conspiracy Theory

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a Kansas oil man in the back pocket of Koch Industries and a mealy-mouthed convert […]

Juan Cole

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