US politics

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann Göring invited two dozen of Germany’s wealthiest and most influential bankers and industrialists to his home to solicit funds for the upcoming election, according to historian David de Jong in […]

Whistleblowers

Julian Assange will be Freed after Striking Plea Deal with US Authorities

The Conversation

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra | – Julian Assange has reached a deal with the United States Department of Justice to allow him to return to Australia after pleading guilty to violating American espionage law. Assange, 52, was released from London’s Belmarsh Prison, where he has spent more than five years and later was […]

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Netanyahu openly Reneges on Ceasefire, Stabs Biden in Back, Charging US cut off Weaponry

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview on Israeli Channel 14, the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “The heavy duty phase in the war is about to end with the end of the operation in Rafah. Therefore, the forces will be moved to the north.” By “north” he meant […]

Arab Americans

Rupture and Repair: A report by the Stanford Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian Communities Committee

contributors

May 2024 Rupture and Repair is published in pdf format here. Below I excerpt a couple of pages in html with the permission of the authors. This report details a substantial rupture of trust between students, staff, and faculty in the Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian (MAP) communities and Stanford in academic year 2023-24. These communities […]

Democratic Party

Not your Father’s Israel: Extremist Israeli PM Netanyahu is Playing Biden and Blinken for Fools

H. Scott Prosterman

Though Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries signed onto inviting Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu to address Congress on July 24 in the “spirit of bi-partisanship,” many US and Israeli Jews loudly object. They plan a major demonstration in Washington to show up his address. The organization UnXeptable is organizing an effort to have […]

Hizbullah

Israel Threatens all-out War against Lebanon’s Hezbollah: Curve-ball for US Presidential Campaign?

The Conversation

By Michelle Bentley, Royal Holloway University of London | – (The Conversation) – Israel has announced that it is ready to go to war with Hezbollah – a move that is likely to undermine US president Joe Biden’s chances in the 2024 election even further. Israel says that Hezbollah – the Lebanese political party and […]

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Far Right Supreme Court enables Mass Murder in Service to Republican Ideology

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – “How can you be so obtuse?” That question to the sadistic warden got Tim Robbins’ character, Andy, an extra 30 days in solitary confinement in Frank Darabont’s 1994 Stephen King vehicle, The Shawshank Redemption. Now I ask of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS), “How can you employ […]

Donald Trump

Trump or Biden on Israel?

Bob Dreyfuss

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, I attended a demonstration called by groups opposing the carnage in Gaza, where eight months of air, ground, and sea attacks by the Israeli Defense Forces have leveled entire quadrants of cities and killed more than 36,000 Palestinians. Many of the participants, justly outraged by the ongoing mass murder triggered […]

Climate Crisis

This Time, from Climate to Palestine to Trump 2.0, we must listen to our wise Cassandras

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com) – A few days ago, my partner and I went in search of packing tape. Our sojourn on an idyllic (if tick-infested) Cape Cod island was ending and it was time to ship some stuff home. We stopped at a little odds-and-ends shop and found ourselves in conversation with the woman behind the […]