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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope
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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope

Richard Penaskovic

Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It’s not surprising that Pope Leo XIV took the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo XIII […]

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

05/21/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

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Israel/ Palestine
The World Court says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Land is Illegal: 4 steps Other Countries can take now

The World Court says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Land is Illegal: 4 steps Other Countries can take now

By Myra Williamson, Auckland University of Technology | – Peace in the Middle East seems further away than ever. The assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Covering Gaza: The deadliest War for Journalists

Covering Gaza: The deadliest War for Journalists

Written byWalid El Houri ( Globalvoices.org ) – On July 31, Al Jazeera journalists Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were killed by Israel in the […]

Global Voices

China
Over half of new Car sales in China in July were EVs, as America faces threat of Falling Behind

Over half of new Car sales in China in July were EVs, as America faces threat of Falling Behind

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In July, China reached an unprecedented inflection point for an industrialized society, with more electric cars purchased than internal combustion […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
On the Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Colonialism yet Reigns

On the Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Colonialism yet Reigns

By Aviva Chomsky ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — […]

Aviva Chomsky

Islam-hatred
Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the Far Right – and Britain's current Violence is the Result

Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the Far Right – and Britain’s current Violence is the Result

By Chris Allen, University of Leicester | – (The Conversation) – As someone who has researched Islamophobia in Britain for a quarter of a century, […]

The Conversation

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B'Tselem accuses Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners

B’Tselem accuses Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brave and meticulous Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has issued a report aptly entitled “Welcome to Hell” on the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: more Palestinians are Dying due to Israeli Blockade, says new Report

Gaza: more Palestinians are Dying due to Israeli Blockade, says new Report

( Middle East Monitor ) – Even after ten months of its systematic and widespread destruction of the healthcare sector in the Gaza Strip, and […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Qatar, Upset with failed Israeli-Palestinian Talks and Haniyeh Assassination,  may Turn to Mediating between Iran and West

Qatar, Upset with failed Israeli-Palestinian Talks and Haniyeh Assassination, may Turn to Mediating between Iran and West

By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University | – (The Conversation) – When the longtime political chief of Hamas was assassinated in late July 2024, it […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Minister asserts that Starving 2 Million Palestinians is Morally and Legally permitted

Israeli Minister asserts that Starving 2 Million Palestinians is Morally and Legally permitted

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reported this week that the civil administrator of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank […]

Juan Cole

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