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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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As Far Right Islamophobic Mobs riot in the UK, Online Merchants of Hate work their Audiences

As Far Right Islamophobic Mobs riot in the UK, Online Merchants of Hate work their Audiences

By Richard Fern, Swansea University | – The frightening scenes of far-right extremists clashing with police and even rioting in British towns and cities in […]

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Donald Trump
Just how Traumatizing will Election 2024 Be?

Just how Traumatizing will Election 2024 Be?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine my surprise when, nearly eight months ago, commenting on the state of the country as it approached the 2024 presidential election, […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Iran condemns "medieval barbarity" of Israel's Sde Teiman Camp, insists on Right to Deter further Aggression

Iran condemns “medieval barbarity” of Israel’s Sde Teiman Camp, insists on Right to Deter further Aggression

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iranian spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani, condemned Israel on Saturday on “X” for practicing “medieval forms of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Lawmakers try to Block Torture Prosecutions

Israeli Lawmakers try to Block Torture Prosecutions

By Bill Van Esveld, Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division | – A standoff at Israel’s Sde Teiman military base this week has thrown longstanding […]

Human Rights Watch

Africa
German Colonialism in Africa left Hundreds of Thousands Dead: Its Chilling Afterlife

German Colonialism in Africa left Hundreds of Thousands Dead: Its Chilling Afterlife

By Henning Melber, University of Pretoria | – (The Conversation) – Germany was a significant – and often brutal – colonial power in Africa. But […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Israeli Total War infects 40,000 with Hepatitis A, threatens Polio Epidemic, Recalling Past Experiments on Human Subjects

Israeli Total War infects 40,000 with Hepatitis A, threatens Polio Epidemic, Recalling Past Experiments on Human Subjects

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a 2011 exposé , Mike Stobbe of NBC news revealed a long history of federal physicians from the US […]

Juan Cole

Hizbullah
Assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders is a Gamble for Benjamin Netanyahu that buys him Time but risks wider Wars

Assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders is a Gamble for Benjamin Netanyahu that buys him Time but risks wider Wars

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin | – (The Conversation) – The missile that struck a building in southern Beirut on Tuesday, killing Hezbollah’s senior […]

The Conversation

Christan Nationalists
Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country

By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented | – ( ProPublica; Co-published with Documented ) – A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending […]

ProPublica

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Turkey's Erdogan denounces killing of Haniyeh, blocks Israel at NATO, Boycotts it, and threatens Intervention

Turkey’s Erdogan denounces killing of Haniyeh, blocks Israel at NATO, Boycotts it, and threatens Intervention

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The only Middle Eastern country that has taken significant political and administrative actions to protest Israeli war crimes is Turkey. […]

Juan Cole

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