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Israel’s Wars are Colonial, Contradicting Biblical Values
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Israel’s Wars are Colonial, Contradicting Biblical Values

Yakov M. Rabkin

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – As missiles fly across West Asia, I recall my trip to Iran where, in 2016, I discovered a […]

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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Climate Crisis
The Defense Dep't is Open about Climate Crisis, but is a Major Emitter itself

The Defense Dep’t is Open about Climate Crisis, but is a Major Emitter itself

By Neta C. Crawford | – Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security […]

The Conversation

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Iran to Germany:  For sake of Keeping Nuclear Deal, you Must do more to Defy Trump

Iran to Germany: For sake of Keeping Nuclear Deal, you Must do more to Defy Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranians are increasingly impatient with Europe’s lack of concrete steps to protect Iran from Trump’s severe sanctions, and the frustration […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
Why Sudan's deadly Crackdown on Protesters could Escalate in coming Weeks

Why Sudan’s deadly Crackdown on Protesters could Escalate in coming Weeks

By Eric Keels and Joshua Lambert | – Sudanese security forces violently removed a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, on June 3. In addition […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner thinks Israelis have Rights but Palestinians have only Needs (if they Behave)

Kushner thinks Israelis have Rights but Palestinians have only Needs (if they Behave)

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – It was a revealing and quite intersecting interview that Jared Kushner had with Jonathan Swan on Axios on HBO […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It:  Politics of Planetary Destruction

You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It: Politics of Planetary Destruction

By David Bromwich | – (Tomdispatch.com) – More and more, we look into our screens and gizmos. And this helps us — almost as if […]

Tomdispatch

Corruption
Is Jared Kushner Literally in Bed with the Saudis?

Is Jared Kushner Literally in Bed with the Saudis?

The Guardian’s Jon Swain broke the story on Monday that Cadre, a real estate investment firm in which Jared Kushner has as much as a […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Fake Newsman: Anti-Iran Forbes "Writer" is a People's Jihadi Front (TYT Video)

Fake Newsman: Anti-Iran Forbes “Writer” is a People’s Jihadi Front (TYT Video)

“Heshmat Alavi” who has published anti-Iran screeds in Forbes, the Daily Caller and other substandard rightwing venues, does not, according to The Intercept, actually exist. […]

The Young Turks

Donald Trump
Trump's incessant Talk of Mexico Tariffs is about White Nationalism, not Trade

Trump’s incessant Talk of Mexico Tariffs is about White Nationalism, not Trade

By Laura Carlsen | – (FPIF) – There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Islam
Very Early Muslim Piety toward the Prophet Muhammad: Blessings and Intercession

Very Early Muslim Piety toward the Prophet Muhammad: Blessings and Intercession

The great scholar Annemarie Schimmel quoted Arthur Jeffrey, the Australian scholar of Islam, to this effect: “Many years ago . . . the late Shaikh […]

Juan Cole

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