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Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance
Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance

Mehmet Rakipoglu and İbrahim Ozcosar

By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar | – Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the aftermath of 7 October […]

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Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

10/21/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

10/21/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Change
Next, Our Food:  Climate Emergency Reducing Crop Yields, Global Food Supplies

Next, Our Food: Climate Emergency Reducing Crop Yields, Global Food Supplies

By Deepak Ray | – Farmers are used to dealing with weather, but climate change is making it harder by altering temperature and rainfall patterns, […]

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Dance
Dunked On'em: Nicki Minaj Pulls out of Saudi Concert over Women's, LGBTQ, Free Speech Rights

Dunked On’em: Nicki Minaj Pulls out of Saudi Concert over Women’s, LGBTQ, Free Speech Rights

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trinidadian-American rap superstar Onika Tanya Maraj, known as “Nicki Minaj” has pulled out of Jidda World Fest scheduled in Saudi […]

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Syria
Syria: US Coalition needs to Reimburse Civilians for Thousands of Innocents Killed and Massive Property Destruction in fight against ISIL

Syria: US Coalition needs to Reimburse Civilians for Thousands of Innocents Killed and Massive Property Destruction in fight against ISIL

First Public ‘Condolence’ Payment Provides Way Forward

Human Rights Watch

Pentagon
Wars R Us:  Our Best and Brightest have Warned us of Pentagon Propaganda Machine

Wars R Us: Our Best and Brightest have Warned us of Pentagon Propaganda Machine

(Tomsdispatch.com ) – Put up with me for just a moment while I wax literary. It turns out that, if French novelist Marcel Proust lived […]

William J. Astore

China
China Backs Iran: Trump 'Started the Fire,' 'unilateral bullying' 'a tumor'

China Backs Iran: Trump ‘Started the Fire,’ ‘unilateral bullying’ ‘a tumor’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – China is openly blaming the Trump administration for the breakdown of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Can Turkish Politics be Depolarized?

Can Turkish Politics be Depolarized?

By Sevgi Yagmur Bulut | – The ruling party is no longer in charge of the largest municipality In the end it was easy. Ekrem […]

Global Voices

Donald Trump
The 'inept' Mr Trump – and the Lost Art of the Diplomatic Cable

The ‘inept’ Mr Trump – and the Lost Art of the Diplomatic Cable

(Al-Bab.com) – The point of diplomatic cables, and the cause of excitement when they are leaked, is that they are meant to be private – […]

Brian Whitaker

Israel/ Palestine
When Will Palestinians Wake up to Complete US embrace of Messianic Extremist Israeli Project

When Will Palestinians Wake up to Complete US embrace of Messianic Extremist Israeli Project

Those who are still hoping that the new American agenda on Palestine and Israel is temporary, or reversible, should abandon this false hope. Washington’s complete […]

Ramzy Baroud

Islamophobia
Combating Islamophobia:  Rami Malek sets Conditions for Playing Villain in Bond 25

Combating Islamophobia: Rami Malek sets Conditions for Playing Villain in Bond 25

Belfast (Informed Comment) – It is well overdue for a Hollywood star to refuse to take a role in a film that will continue to […]

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