Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Iran and Iraq were fighting each other in the 1980s, with neither regime being much liked in Washington, former […]
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My Malaysia Ordeal shows how Religion can Fuse with Nationalism to Silence Dissent
By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – (The Conversation) – I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a […]
Aaron Bushnell Sacrificed himself to Stop Gaza Genocide: “I won’t be Complicit”
Connecticut (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Despondence, mixed with commitment, courage, and action, can be a starter for epochal change. Aaron Bushnell set himself […]
Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | Senator Richard Durbin Chair, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate fax: […]
How Climate Change is Messing up the Ocean’s Biological Clock, a Potential Catastrophe
By Frédéric Cyr, Memorial University of Newfoundland | – Every year in the mid-latitudes of the planet, a peculiar phenomenon known as the phytoplankton spring […]
Black Thursday: Israel’s Great Flour Massacre in Gaza kills over 100 Civilians, wounds Hundreds
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports on the Great Flour Massacre committed by the Israeli army […]
Israel Not Complying with World Court Order in Genocide Case
( Human Rights Watch ) – (The Hague, February 26, 2024) – The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in […]
When it Comes to Trump, Justice Delayed is Democracy Denied.
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” The phrase has often been repeated here […]
Half a Million People in Gaza face Starvation, as 1 in 6 Children are Wasting Away
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Israel only allowed half as many aid trucks into […]
Is the Int’l Community concluding it is Time to End the World’s Longest Occcupation?
( Middle East Monitor) – Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, though, some people, whether in […]