This is my summation of President Joe Biden’s Middle East policies for Tomdispatch.com. Check out Tom Engelhardt’s searing introduction. And note his recommendation for my […]
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On the Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Colonialism yet Reigns
By Aviva Chomsky ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — […]
Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the Far Right – and Britain’s current Violence is the Result
By Chris Allen, University of Leicester | – (The Conversation) – As someone who has researched Islamophobia in Britain for a quarter of a century, […]
B’Tselem accuses Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brave and meticulous Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has issued a report aptly entitled “Welcome to Hell” on the […]
Gaza: more Palestinians are Dying due to Israeli Blockade, says new Report
( Middle East Monitor ) – Even after ten months of its systematic and widespread destruction of the healthcare sector in the Gaza Strip, and […]
Qatar, Upset with failed Israeli-Palestinian Talks and Haniyeh Assassination, may Turn to Mediating between Iran and West
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University | – (The Conversation) – When the longtime political chief of Hamas was assassinated in late July 2024, it […]
Israeli Minister asserts that Starving 2 Million Palestinians is Morally and Legally permitted
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reported this week that the civil administrator of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank […]
AIPAC Hijacks Rep. Cori Bush’s Race — and Our Elections
( Code Pink ) – Representative Cori Bush, a progressive black woman from St. Louis, MO who is a member of the “Squad” and has […]
Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today
By Hekmat Aboukhater and William D. Hartung ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to […]
Walz called Gaza situation “Intolerable,” sought ceasefire, praised Uncommitted; Shapiro did not
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Presumptive Democratic Party standard-bearer Kamala Harris’ pick of Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate has widely been implied […]