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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America
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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America

Juan Cole

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

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The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

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Israel/ Palestine
“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

By Clodagh Philippa Guerin, University of Limerick (The Conversation) – In times of war and crisis, poetry can become more than just art: it can […]

The Conversation

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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

Lincoln, NE (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Long before Israeli leaders invoked biblical rhetoric to justify the “erasure” of a Palestinian homeland, another colonizing […]

Max Perry Mueller

Climate Crisis
Climate Breakdown:  Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, […]

Tom Engelhardt

censorship
Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency, and rights but failed to prevent continued violence and atrocities, […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – How plague came to Europe around 1347 has long been debated by historians. Scientists have located the origin of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

  by Dr Mohammad Yousef ( Middle East Monitor ) – New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he would instruct the NYPD […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

( Code Pink ) – Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Climate Crisis
Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Meteorological Organization has issued its annual report on the 22 countries of the Arab world, covering last year, […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

By John Strawson, University of East London (The Conversation) – The interesting thing about Benjamin Netanyahu’s call on Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, to pardon him […]

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