Informed Comment

Albanese Sanctions: Marco Rubio now Acting just Like Putin, Charging Human Rights Officials

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday slapped personal sanctions on United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca […]

Juan Cole

Genocide

Plans to Concentrate Gaza Palestinians in Rafah Camp a Crime against Humanity

By James Sweeney, Lancaster University (The Concversation) – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan to move hundreds of thousands […]

The Conversation

Iran

I Love America: And now it is Bombing my Family in Iran

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We bombed Iran and, despite a temporary cessation of hostilities, it’s likely that President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Tel […]

Nader Terani

Donald Trump

War Criminal Netanyahu nominates Felon Trump for the Nobel Prize

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When I read about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominating convicted felon Donald Trump for the Nobel […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel Lobby

Why Faith Leaders are standing up to the Largest pro-Israel Christian Lobby

An interfaith campaign is confronting one of the most powerful groups driving unconditional support for Israel and the genocide in Gaza with spiritual resistance. Jaisal […]

Waging Nonviolence

Artificial Intelligence

Grok’s MechaHitler Antisemitic Rant shows how Generative AI can be Weaponized

By James Foulds, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Phil Feldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Shimei Pan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (The Conversation) […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism

Regime Change: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump

Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Fourth of July we just observed, nearly 250 years after America’s Declaration of Independence, felt like a […]

Bahman Fozouni

Israel/ Palestine

Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF

by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. […]

Middle East Monitor

Health