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Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance
By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar | – Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the aftermath of 7 October […]
Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace
by Ronny P Sasmita ( Middle East Monitor ) – The latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have once again exposed the frailty of what […]
Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe
By Christoph Nedopil, Griffith University (The Conversation) – The price of partnership with the United States has changed. Washington is now using assurances of defence […]
The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East
Quincy, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Today, and particularly in the Middle East, concepts like national interest, class, and geopolitics are fading compared […]
“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21
Stanza 21 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues with the theme of the shortness of life […]
Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians
By Brett Wilkins | – ( Commondreams.org ) – Gaza officials said that at least 51 Palestinians, including numerous children, were killed across the strip […]
A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill
By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Senate Finance Committee hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was explosive. The Secretary of […]
Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on “No Kings” Day
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the 1820s Greece waged a successful war of independence against an authoritarian king, the Ottoman Emperor Mahmoud II. The […]
Our Fourth Amendment Rights Are Endangered Like Never Before
Trump is trying to disappear the part of the Constitution that stops the government from searching your house — or seizing you — without a […]
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