Trabzon, Turkey (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The U.S. presidential elections are among the most consequential for the Middle East, second only to elections […]
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There’s only One Issue in the 2024 Election: The Survival of a Habitable Earth
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In mid-July, Nature Climate Change published a global survey of over 9,000 scientists. Its findings should be like the sirens […]
The Kurdish Town of Kocho is the ‘Guernica’ of the 21st Century
( Rudaw.net) – A decade ago, on August 3, 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) conquered the village of Kocho (Kojo) in the Sinjar (Shingal) area […]
America the Unwell: The Corporate Greed Threatening our Stability
( Tomdispatch.com ) – One thing our government doesn’t like doing is challenging the greed of health insurance companies. I can speak with some authority […]
Time to end the “No Daylight” Approach to America’s Israel Policy
Monterey, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last month’s sad passing of Martin Indyk provides an opportunity to reflect on the US Middle East […]
Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime: Retaliatory July Strike on Hodeidah Threatens Food, Aid, Electricity Supply
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on the evening of July 20, 2024, were an apparently unlawful indiscriminate or […]
Remembering a Democratic Iran under Mosaddegh, which the US Overthrew
Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment) – When I was very young, in my early teens, I remember that we always had radio Iraq on. I […]
Gaza is in Rubble now; But it was a great Intellectual Hub of the Roman Empire
By Christopher Mallan, The University of Western Australia | – (The Conversation) – The years 2023 and 2024 will certainly be remembered as some of […]
Gaza War, Lack of Palestinian Labor, drives Contraction of Israeli GDP, with 46K Businesses Shuttered
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on continuing his total war on Gaza is not only inflicting untold misery on […]
Israel has reduced the “Humanitarian Safe Zone” to only 11% of Gaza, as it Forces Thousands to move Again
( Middle East Monitor ) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Saturday that Israel has reduced the so-called “humanitarian zone” in […]
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