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Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel’s Wars
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Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel’s Wars

Yakov M. Rabkin

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I […]

Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing

Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing

06/20/2025 By The Conversation

Trump can’t Stop the Green Energy Revolution any More than Horses could Stop the Automobile

Trump can’t Stop the Green Energy Revolution any More than Horses could Stop the Automobile

06/20/2025 By Alfred W. McCoy

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Oil-Tanker Attacks Potentially A 'Dangerous Escalation' in US-Iran Confrontation, Expert Says

Oil-Tanker Attacks Potentially A ‘Dangerous Escalation’ in US-Iran Confrontation, Expert Says

(RFE/RL) – Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf Of Oman have escalated tensions in the Middle East and raised the prospect of […]

Frud Bezhan

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad makes War on Boycott-of-Israel Movement (BDS)

Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad makes War on Boycott-of-Israel Movement (BDS)

By Abdel Nasser Issa | – Israel not only uses its highly-trained military and security forces against what it calls Palestinian or Islamist “terrorists”, but […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Russia is Calling Trump's Bluff on Iran and Syria, and Winning Big

Russia is Calling Trump’s Bluff on Iran and Syria, and Winning Big

By trying to isolate Russia and Iran, the US is only isolating itself. (Moscow) – President Donald Trump won’t go to war with Iran. That […]

Reese Erlich

Iraq
As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival

As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival

By Laura Gottesdiener | – (Tomdispatch.com) – There’s a dark joke going around Baghdad these days. Noof Assi, a 30-year-old Iraqi peace activist and humanitarian […]

Tomdispatch

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Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In

Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mysterious mines that blew up two tankers, one of them Japanese-owned and operated, on Wednesday, sent a frisson of […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
In Killing 100 Protesters to Avoid Civilian Rule, Sudan's Junta Committed Historic Blunder

In Killing 100 Protesters to Avoid Civilian Rule, Sudan’s Junta Committed Historic Blunder

By Abdulwahhab Badrakhan | – It is still not clear what’s going to have a stronger influence on the choices of the military leaders in […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Iran's Green Uprising 10 Years Later:  A Humanizing Legacy

Iran’s Green Uprising 10 Years Later: A Humanizing Legacy

By Pouya Alimagham (Informed Comment) – June 12, 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of what sparked the Green Uprising in Iran. While many have noted […]

Pouya Alimagham

Corruption
Trump Broadcasts Free Ad via Disney to Thuggish Regimes, requesting Hacked Dirt on Dems

Trump Broadcasts Free Ad via Disney to Thuggish Regimes, requesting Hacked Dirt on Dems

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump revealed again on Wednesday that he has no legal or ethical compass. In an interview with ABC news Chief […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
War Crimes: Syria's Assad has Systematically Targeted Hospitals as a Battle Tactic

War Crimes: Syria’s Assad has Systematically Targeted Hospitals as a Battle Tactic

By Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal | – Although many reports touch on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria, little has been said about the medical […]

Middle East Monitor

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