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Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
Donald Trump

Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the three criminal […]

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

07/01/2025 By The Conversation

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

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Immigration
What the Child Detentions at the Border Really Tell Us about Trumpism

What the Child Detentions at the Border Really Tell Us about Trumpism

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Lately, I’ve been thinking about the Grimm’s fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. Terrified by cruel conditions at home, the brother and […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Israel/ Palestine
Trump’s Calls to “Send Them Back” are Mainstream in Israel

Trump’s Calls to “Send Them Back” are Mainstream in Israel

The affinity between Trump and Netanyahu is more than personal. It’s rooted in a shared fantasy of a perfectly homogeneous society.

Foreign Policy in Focus

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How Facebook’s Algorithm Hides Good Journalism and allowed Russian Election Meddling

How Facebook’s Algorithm Hides Good Journalism and allowed Russian Election Meddling

By Jennifer Grygiel | – Facebook’s News Feed algorithm determines what users see on its platform – from funny memes to comments from friends. The […]

The Conversation

Iraq
Caught between Iran, the Sunnis and the US, is Iraq a State without a Nation?

Caught between Iran, the Sunnis and the US, is Iraq a State without a Nation?

By Tareq A. Ramadan | – (Informed Comment) – The fall of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist dictatorship in March of 2003 was a cataclysmic political event […]

Tareq A. Ramadan

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers and other Forces have killed 16 Palestinian children since start of 2019

Israeli Snipers and other Forces have killed 16 Palestinian children since start of 2019

Israeli occupation forces have killed 16 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip since the start of 2019, Defence for Children […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Iran Crushing Rights just when it Needs understanding in the West:  Must Release Prominent Anthropologist

Iran Crushing Rights just when it Needs understanding in the West: Must Release Prominent Anthropologist

Detention of French-Iranian Anthropologist Confirms Worrying Trend

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Yes, Obstruction; Yes, Collusion:  The Mueller Report Proved the one and Gave Evidence for the Other

Yes, Obstruction; Yes, Collusion: The Mueller Report Proved the one and Gave Evidence for the Other

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump keeps trying to hypnotize people by saying “No collusion, no obstruction,” and saying that Mueller exonerated him. Since so […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Russian Bribes, Mideast Plots and the Election of Trump: What Mueller has already Told Us

Russian Bribes, Mideast Plots and the Election of Trump: What Mueller has already Told Us

Reprint edition The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
40 Years ago Climate Scientists achieved their own Moonshot, Accurately Predicting Global Heating

40 Years ago Climate Scientists achieved their own Moonshot, Accurately Predicting Global Heating

By Neville Nicholls | – This month the world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon. But this […]

The Conversation

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