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Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self
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Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole

They discuss Cole’s career, ranging from his upbringing in a military family to becoming a leading public intellectual during the Iraq War

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

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Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Army Spokesman admits Hamas can't be Destroyed, as Netanyahu eyes War with Hezbollah

Israeli Army Spokesman admits Hamas can’t be Destroyed, as Netanyahu eyes War with Hezbollah

By Jonathan Este, The Conversation | – Fighting continues in central and southern Gaza, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to encounter resistance from […]

The Conversation

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Netanyahu, emboldened by Biden's Debate Performance, again Defies US, Intensifies Attacks on Gaza

Netanyahu, emboldened by Biden’s Debate Performance, again Defies US, Intensifies Attacks on Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu once again rejected the Biden peace deal on Sunday, vowing complete victory. After Biden’s […]

Juan Cole

Pentagon
Our Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget Won’t Make us Safer

Our Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget Won’t Make us Safer

By Lindsay Koshgarian ( Otherwords.org ) – If you looked at the U.S. military budget without knowing otherwise, you’d probably guess we were in World […]

OtherWords

Climate Crisis
“Some Say the World will End in Fire:” Nukes and Carbon, Carbon and Nukes

“Some Say the World will End in Fire:” Nukes and Carbon, Carbon and Nukes

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve been writing about climate change for so many years now but, in truth, it was always something I read about […]

Tom Engelhardt

Addiction
The Sacklers may not Get away with Opioid Grift after all, as SCOTUS strikes Down Bankruptcy Settlement

The Sacklers may not Get away with Opioid Grift after all, as SCOTUS strikes Down Bankruptcy Settlement

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Allen Frances, M.D., distinguished former chair of psychiatry at Duke University school of medicine wrote in a […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel uses Starvation to Subdue the Palestinians

How Israel uses Starvation to Subdue the Palestinians

( Middle East Monitor ) – Humanitarian aid should never be politicised though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining […]

Ramzy Baroud

Inequality
SCOTUS to Homeless: Stay Awake or be Arrested

SCOTUS to Homeless: Stay Awake or be Arrested

By Clare Pastore, University of Southern California | – (The Conversation) – The Supreme Court has ruled that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution […]

The Conversation

Democratic Party
AIPAC's Destructive Reach in American Politics: How it made an Example of Rep. Jamal Bowman

AIPAC’s Destructive Reach in American Politics: How it made an Example of Rep. Jamal Bowman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Rep. Jamal Bowman’s loss to George Latimer for the 16th District of New York in the Democratic […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Displaced and Refugees
Gazans’ extreme Hunger could leave its Mark on subsequent Generations

Gazans’ extreme Hunger could leave its Mark on subsequent Generations

Hasan Khatib, University of Wisconsin-Madison | – As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire […]

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