(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sahar first told me about moral distance one May morning on a beach in Cadiz. Born in Baghdad, Sahar […]
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Israel returns to Deliberately Starving Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Planning for Further Total War
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ashraf al-Hur reports at al-Quds al-`Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] that the extremist government in Israel has escalated its military attacks on […]
Can the Caspian Sea be Saved from turning into an environmental Disaster?
Written byNurbek Bekmurzaev ( Global Voices ) – The Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water in the world, faces a grim future in […]
Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers
By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ( ProPublica ) – For a project explicitly designed to influence Congress, Steve Berger’s operation has left […]
On Int’l Women’s Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom
Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have […]
From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism
( Middle East Monitor ) – The conversation on settler-colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, demonstrated clearly in […]
Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump
By May Darwich, University of Birmingham (The Conversation) – US president Donald Trump famously called Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi his “favourite dictator” in 2019, […]
Shamash! “The Threat”
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Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism
Here is my column this week for Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch at The Nation Institute. Do check in on his poignant and insightful introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com […]
Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab
By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ( RFE/RL ) – Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran’s mandatory dress code […]
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