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The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Iran
Former Revolutionary Guards Chief Says Iran Should Consider Talking To Trump

Former Revolutionary Guards Chief Says Iran Should Consider Talking To Trump

( RFE/RL) – Amid escalating tensions with the United States and mounting sanctions pressuring Iran’s economy, a former senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Iran
Iranians are not our Enemies: Can Public Diplomacy Work?

Iranians are not our Enemies: Can Public Diplomacy Work?

When foreign policy as we know it isn’t working, creative citizen diplomacy can step in to humanize the real people who would be most impacted by war.

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Change
Vanishing Tropical Rainforests are the Lungs of our Planet: We can Still Save them (and Ourselves)

Vanishing Tropical Rainforests are the Lungs of our Planet: We can Still Save them (and Ourselves)

By Robin Chazdon | The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown. […]

The Conversation

Sudan
As Sudan Crowds Demand Civilian Rule, Was Al-Bashir's Overthrow just another Military Coup?

As Sudan Crowds Demand Civilian Rule, Was Al-Bashir’s Overthrow just another Military Coup?

By Khalil Charles | @khalilcharles | – According to well-informed sources, on the night of 22 February this year, as the invited guests in Sudan’s […]

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
Atrocity: American Concentration Camps for Immigrant Children

Atrocity: American Concentration Camps for Immigrant Children

By By Lizet Ocampo | – Children are suffering and dying. Enough is enough. By Lizet Ocampo | July 3, 2019 Over the past several […]

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Climate Change
What Happens when Climate Emergency Drowns Whole Nations?

What Happens when Climate Emergency Drowns Whole Nations?

By Sarah M. Munoz | – Global climate change is endangering small island countries, many of them developing nations, potentially harming their ability to function […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
Israel Systematically Hiding Documents Proving Expulsion, Oppression of Palestinians

Israel Systematically Hiding Documents Proving Expulsion, Oppression of Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hagar Shezaf at the Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz [“The Land”], reveals that a secretive Israeli agency has been systematically […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Can Trump's Impending War on Iran be Stopped?

Can Trump’s Impending War on Iran be Stopped?

Eric Stoner | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Since coming to power, the Trump administration has had Iran in its crosshairs. The United States unilaterally […]

Waging Nonviolence

Immigration
American Concentration Camps, Then and Now

American Concentration Camps, Then and Now

By Harry Blain | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – When human beings are framed as a national security threat, barbed wire is the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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