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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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Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July (in the Age of Trump)

Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July (in the Age of Trump)

Ann Arbor | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised for the the Age of Trump: Your Fourth of July is tanks in the streets. My […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Cole in Time Magazine for the Fourth of July on Lydia Maria Child and Islam

Cole in Time Magazine for the Fourth of July on Lydia Maria Child and Islam

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Time Magazine does an annual feature on unsung moments in American history for their 4th of July edition. This year […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
June Hottest Month on Record, As Antarctica Melts:  Top 3 Signs We are Cooking the Planet . . . and Ourselves

June Hottest Month on Record, As Antarctica Melts: Top 3 Signs We are Cooking the Planet . . . and Ourselves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 1. A European Union satellite has confirmed that June, 2019, was the hottest month on earth since scientific record-keeping began […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
In Israeli-Occupied Palestine, Health Care is not a Right

In Israeli-Occupied Palestine, Health Care is not a Right

By Yara Asi | – Al Shabaka) – For decades, political barriers have obstructed the Palestinian health system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, […]

Al-Shabaka

Immigration
Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

By A.C. Thompson | – (ProPublica) – The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit […]

ProPublica

Iran
Iranian Aggression?  Or American?  Even Great US News Outlets can’t Escape Jingoism

Iranian Aggression? Or American? Even Great US News Outlets can’t Escape Jingoism

Tomdispatch.com) – Headlined “U.S. Seeks Other Ways to Stop Iran Shy of War,” the article was tucked away on page A9 of a recent New […]

Tom Engelhardt

Iran
Fiasco:  How Iran Ran Circles around Trump

Fiasco: How Iran Ran Circles around Trump

The Iranian government saw the President’s vacillation as a sign of weakness, one journalist tells me, “Iran was ready to retaliate on an unbelievable scale.” […]

Reese Erlich

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Iran hasn't Breached the Nuclear Deal-- Trump had already Destroyed It

Iran hasn’t Breached the Nuclear Deal– Trump had already Destroyed It

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday that Iran has exceeded 300 grams of Low Enriched Uranium. The […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran is not Iraq: But Can Trump's Warmongers be Stopped?

Iran is not Iraq: But Can Trump’s Warmongers be Stopped?

(Middle East Monitor) – Along with American and British journalists and doctors, I visited Iraq a few years before its invasion and occupation by the […]

Ramzy Baroud

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