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Gaza: The Horror, The Horror . . .
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Gaza: The Horror, The Horror . . .

Hugh J. Curran

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – There are mornings when we are unable to bear to listen to the news taking place in […]

Stopping Israel’s Attack on Civil Society, Justice and Human Rights: A Call to Action

Stopping Israel’s Attack on Civil Society, Justice and Human Rights: A Call to Action

05/19/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Detained!  Trump’s America as one Big Black Site

Detained! Trump’s America as one Big Black Site

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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

Israel Lobbies
AIPAC Hijacks Rep. Cori Bush's Race -- and Our Elections

AIPAC Hijacks Rep. Cori Bush’s Race — and Our Elections

( Code Pink ) – Representative Cori Bush, a progressive black woman from St. Louis, MO who is a member of the “Squad” and has […]

Medea Benjamin

Nuclear weapons
Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today

Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today

By Hekmat Aboukhater and William D. Hartung ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to […]

Tomdispatch

Democratic Party
Walz called Gaza situation "Intolerable," sought ceasefire, praised Uncommitted; Shapiro did not

Walz called Gaza situation “Intolerable,” sought ceasefire, praised Uncommitted; Shapiro did not

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Presumptive Democratic Party standard-bearer Kamala Harris’ pick of Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate has widely been implied […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Zionism on the brink: The Gaza war beyond Netanyahu

Zionism on the brink: The Gaza war beyond Netanyahu

( Middle East Monitor ) – The idea that Israel’s war on Gaza is essentially waged and sustained by and for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

Ramzy Baroud

Human Rights
Assassination is always unlawful – Regardless of who is Killed and on whose Orders

Assassination is always unlawful – Regardless of who is Killed and on whose Orders

By Mary Ellen O’Connell, University of Notre Dame | – (The Conversation) – >Assassination is a particular form of murder. Regardless of who carries out […]

The Conversation

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A Proclamation regarding the Anniversary of the First Nuclear War Crimes

A Proclamation regarding the Anniversary of the First Nuclear War Crimes

August 6 and 9: A Proclamation Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – As I write, five of nine governments with arsenals of nuclear […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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