- + In 2024, did the US Demand for Israeli Impunity Fatally Undermine International Law?—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 2024 was a pivotal year for international humanitarian law. On the one hand, the International Court of Justice a...
- + Turkey Replacing Iran As The Dominant Foreign Player In Syria—By Kian Sharifi ( RFE / RL ) – The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government at the hands of rebels, including Ankara-backed factions, ...
- + The Year ahead in the Middle East: A weakened Iran has big Implications for China—By Daniel Lincoln , University of Alberta (The Conversation) – The wheels of history have been turning rapidly in the Middle East over t...
- + For Christmas: The Persian Poet Nezami’s Story of Jesus Finding Virtues even in the Lowliest—On Christmas Day, I like to recall the significance of Jesus and the nativity for Muslims. I’ve talked about Rumi, Attar, and other mystics. T...
- + Archiving as resistance to Genocide Denial in Gaza—Eleftheria Kousta ( Waging Nonviolence ) – After the war and genocide in southeastern Bosnia in 1993, two very important forces shaped t...
- + Repression of Climate and Environmental Protest is intensifying across the World—By Oscar Berglund , University of Bristol and Tie Franco Brotto , University of Bristol (The Conversation) – Climate and environme...
- + The Great Sufi Qushayri on “Responding to Evil with the Greatest Good” (Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men in Islam)—This fall I published an article, “Sufi Commentaries on a Quranic Peace Verse: Responding to Evil with the greatest Good in Q. 41:33–35,” in the Jo...
- + Palestinian Christians call on Western Churches to ‘Humanize’ the Children of Gaza—By Jane Barter , University of Winnipeg (The Conversation) – The human rights group, Amnesty International , recently issued a report c...
- + Israel invades and Occupies more of Syria, as World stands By—( Code Pink ) – The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campai...
- + Pope Francis: “I Think of Gaza, of so much Cruelty, of the Children Machine-Gunned”—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the Sunday before Christmas, Pope Francis said, “May the weapons be silenced and Christmas carols resound!” ac...
- + Pope Francis: “I Think of Gaza, of so much Cruelty; of the Children Machine-Gunned”—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the Sunday before Christmas, Pope Francis said, “May the weapons be silenced and Christmas carols resound!” ac...
- + Russia Moving Military Assets To Africa After Syria Setback—By Maja Zivanovic and Jean Fernand Koena ( RFE/RL ) – Russia is reducing its military footprint in Syria and shifting some of i...
- + Climate Change Taking the World’s Four Legacy Empires Down:—( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. C...
- + Shamash! “The Edict”—Panel #25 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Irony is Dead: Netanyahu cannot Attend Auschwitz Ceremony for Fear of Arrest on ICC Warrant for War Crimes—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to tra...
- + Iran’s Axis Crumbles as Hezbollah Falters and Assad Falls.—By Imran Khalid | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The dramatic sequence of events that began on October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s s...
- + Climate, Migration and Conflict mix to create ‘deadly’ intense Tropical Storms like Chido—By Liz Stephens , University of Reading ; Dan Green , University of Bristol , and Luis Artur , Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (The Conv...
- + Gaza’s Afflictions: A Proem—May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain. (Oath of Maimonides) Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature)...
- + The Emerging Bitter Israeli-Turkish Rivalry in Syria—By Amin Saikal , Australian National University (The Conversation) – The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has opened a new fron...
- + Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza—( Human Rights Watch ) – Israeli authorities have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of p...
- + Syria’s New Fundamentalist Government: Women “biologically” Unsuited to Politics, Universities to be Segregated—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Obeida Arnaout, the spokesman for the Sunni fundamentalist Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham...
- + Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws: From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term—( Tomdispatch.com ) – Post-election America finds itself in a panic. Voices from across a wide political spectrum warn that the country stan...
- + The Takedown of Bashar Assad has an Impact on Many in the U.S. Here’s how—( San Diego Union Tribune ) – Syrian refugees in El Cajon danced in the streets upon hearing about the Dec. 7 collapse of the Assad dynasty, w...
- + Scientists: Cyclone Chido, which Devastated Indian Ocean Island of Mayotte, was 40% more likely to be a Cat 4 because of Climate Change—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Cyclone Chido devastated the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte , destroying an estimated 20,000 homes and wiping o...
- + Palestinians file Landmark Lawsuit against Blinken over Israel military Aid—( Middle East Monitor ) – A groundbreaking federal lawsuit has been filed against US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accusing him of system...
- + Why Syria’s Reconstruction may Depend on the Fate of its Minorities—By Ramazan Kılınç , Kennesaw State University (The Conversation) – Tens of thousands of minorities fearing persecution have fled Syria ...
- + Closing Israeli Embassy does not Deter Ireland from Recognizing Palestine, Joining Genocide Case against Netanyahu Gov’t—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The current Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar, is likely a war criminal by virtue of serving in the cabinet o...
- + Trump Confronts a Rising China: Can He Manage U.S.-China Relations Without Precipitating World War III?—( Tomdispatch.com ) – Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela: President-elect Donald Trump will face no sh...
- + Is Israel about to Annex the Palestinian West Bank? Why Now?—( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backwards...
- + Shamash! “The Flight”—Panel #24 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Trump: Turkey’s Erdogan staged “Hostile Takeover” of Syria using HTS Proxies, and is the “Victor”—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald J. Trump held an impromptu press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Monday. In the course of his remarks, he ...
- + Trump: Turkey’s Erdogan staged “Hostile Takeover” of Syria using HTS Proxies, is the “Victor”—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald J. Trump held an impromptu press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Monday. In the course of his remarks, he ...
- + Protesting New York University’s Arbitrary Repressive Actions toward Faculty and Students Protest Gaza War—Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Linda G. Mills President, New York University linda.mills@ny...
- + What the Fall of Assad says about Putin’s Ambitions for Russia’s Great-Power Status—By Stefan Wolff , University of Birmingham (The Conversation) – The lightning-fast collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has sent sho...
- + Iraq’s Barzani hails Syrian Leader’s Assurances on future of Syrian Kurds—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria has broached again the issue of the largely Kurdish Autonomous Administr...
- + Iraq’s Barzani hails Syrian Leader’s Assurances on uture of Syrian Kurds—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria has broached again the issue of the largely Kurdish Autonomous Administr...
- + Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine—By Chandni Desai , University of Toronto (The Conversation) – Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “ Palestinian Sto...
- + Iran Detains Singer Who Performed Without Head Scarf—By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ( RFE/ RL ) – Iranian police released singer Parastoo Ahmadi in the early hours of December 15 following...
- + How did we Get Here? Excerpt from my new book “Gaza Yet Stands”—This is an excerpt from a draft of the introduction to my new book, Gaza Yet Stands , which briefly sketches how Israeli colonial policies turned...
- + Genocide or Crimes Against Humanity? Amnesty Int’l’s Verdict on Israel’s War on Gaza—By Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza and increasingly violent acts aga...
- + Rising Desertification shows we can’t keep Farming with Fossil Fuels; 3/4s of Earth’s Land is Drier—By Jack Marley , The Conversation Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more ex...
- + Shamash! “The Brilliance”—Panel #23 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Türkiye reaches 18.7 GW Photovoltaic Capacity, shows how Solar can meet Growing Air Conditioning demand—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the paradoxes of human-made climate change is that as we heat up the planet by burning gasoline, coal an...
- + The Turkish Role in Assad’s Downfall: By supporting the rebels who overthrew the Syrian leader has Ankara bitten off more than it can chew?—By Philip Balboni | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – After tenaciously holding on to power for more than a decade of war, the government...
- + The self-governing Kurdish northeast of Syria comes under attack, with Country in Flux—By Pinar Dinc , Lund University (The Conversation) – After more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 da...
- + With HTS rule of Syria and Taliban in Afghanistan, did the U.S. lose the “War on Terror”?—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US policy in the Middle East is a dinosaur-like holdover from two eras, the Cold War and the “Global War o...
- + How Israel’s regional War contributed to the Fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria—By Daniel L. Douek , McGill University (The Conversation) – When Hamas strategist Yahya Sinwar ordered the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel...
- + Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter: Time to Boycott the US?—( Tomdispatch.com ) – Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He’s the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and do...
- + UN Demands immediate Gaza Ceasefire as Israel’s Cabinet of Horrors Continues – 53 Killed, as 65K lack Food, Water, Medicine—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the Israeli military killed 53 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday. ...
- + Iranian Leader Blames Assad’s Downfall On U.S., Israel, And Turkey—( RFE/ RL ) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in his first public comments since Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ousted , accused...
- + Hamas – Hemmed in and Isolated – finds itself with few Options for the Day after the Gaza War—By Mkhaimar Abusada , Northwestern University (The Conversation) – In early December 2024, Hamas announced a major concession: It was p...
- + Shamash! “The Condition”—Panel #22 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Trump’s Nominee for Ambassador to Israel is an End Times Fanatic and Palestine Denialist; What could Go Wrong?—Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Trump’s second-term nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel is former Arkansas Govern...
- + Syrians, in a Triumph of Hope, turn the Page on the Horrors of Assad—By Wendy Pearlman , Northwestern University Millions of Syrians are feeling hope for the first time in years. The authoritarian regime of ...
- + The Return of War to the Home Front: Don’t Look for Restraint from Donald Trump’s Military—( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyo...
- + Shiite Latakia Falls to new Syrian Government, as Sheikhs call for Reconciliation and Recruits are Pardoned—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, the Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham/ HTS) guerrilla forces extended their rule ...
- + The world owes Palestine this much – please stop censoring Palestinian Voices—( Middle East Monitor ) – Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a di...
- + Abu Mohammed al-Golani may become the face of post-Assad Syria – but who is he and why does he have $10M US bounty on his head?—By Sara Harmouch , American University (The Conversation) – The fall of President Bashar al-Assad has left a critical question: Afte...
- + Assad’s Fall is a Reminder that Russia is not a Global power but a Regional One—Trabzon, Turkey (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When former U.S. President Barack Obama referred to Russia as a “regional power” at the ...
- + The sectarian Risk: Turkiye’s Syrian Mission—by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria...
- + Is Piers Morgan normalizing Israel’s Genocide?—( Counterpunch ) – Since October 7, 2023, white settler propaganda has ramped up through two insidious tactics targeting western audiences. Th...
- + Shamash! “The Kiss”—Panel #21 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Syrians finally Won the Arab Spring; Can they avoid Pitfalls and Win Democracy?—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Syrian Revolution of 2024 has succeeded in deposing the al-Assad dynasty, in power since 1970, throwing off t...
- + Trump is Already Rewarding Fossil Fuel CEOs; That’s not Good for Consumers or the Planet—If you think fossil fuel profits lead to better prices, then look again at the Biden administration. ( Otherwords.org ) – During his campa...
- + On Climate Change, the International Court of Justice faces a pivotal Choice—By Claudia Ituarte-Lima , Lund University (The Conversation) – What legal obligations do states have to fight climate change? Should hig...
- + Why Iran can’t Stand up for the al-Assad Government: Russia isn’t Offering Air Support—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The strategic situation in Syria is dire for the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad. Typically in military ...
- + Ben-Gvir seeks plan for Trump to instigate Palestinian Migration from Gaza—( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel intends to present a plan to US President-elect Donald Trump aimed at encouraging migration and settlement in...
- + A ‘Future of Dust’ – Why, in Evil Times, Writers have a Responsibility to take Sides (Jeff Sparrow)—By Jeff Sparrow , The University of Melbourne (The Conversation) – We must ask for no references to Gaza/Palestine/Israel as it’s...
- + Shamash! “Candid Thoughts”—Panel #20 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Turkish Right celebrates Syrian Rebel Offensive, while Left Fears Partition and Turmoil—Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After four years of frozen conflict, Syrian rebels, mainly from the Islamist group Hay’a...
- + The Russia – Iran – Assad ‘Axis of the Vulnerable’ is Cracking in Syria—By Scott Lucas , University College Dublin (The Conversation) – The so-called “axis of the vulnerable” is breaking in Syria. Starting...
- + Progressives must Act to Protect the most Vulnerable: mere Resistance to Trump is not Enough—By Ira Chernus ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for ...
- + “It is like an Apocalypse:” Amnesty International finds Israel is deliberately undertaking Genocide against Palestinians of Gaza—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International has just put out a detailed report based on its own fieldwork and masses of other evide...
- + Israel is pushing Political Allies in Congress to outlaw Conversations about the Genocide in Gaza; it won’t Work—( The Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid t...
- + The spectacular Capture of Aleppo by Opposition Forces plunges Syria into an uncertain Future—By Mehmet Ozalp , Charles Sturt University (The Conversation) – The forgotten Syrian civil war has again flared up with the spectacular ...
- + Shamash! “The Tour”—Panel #19 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Shiite Iraqi PM to Türkiye: Baghdad will not be a Mere Spectator as Sunni Radicals take Syria—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia’ al-Sudani called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday and ...
- + Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?—( Code Pink ) – On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both suppos...
- + Bankrupting the Planet: The Trump Tempest—( Tomdispatch.com ) – Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, ...
- + Shamash! “The Date”—Panel #18 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + “Trump is the one to Blame” for Current Iran Crisis: An Interview with Gary Sick (Pt. 2)—This is part II of Fariba Amini’s two-part interview with Columbia University Political Scientist and former National Security Council Adviser (...
- + US Arms Used in Illegal Israeli Strike on Lebanese Journalists, raising Questions of American Liability—Human Rights Watch – (Beirut, November 25, 2024) – An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three ...
- + How Hayat Tahrir al-Sham evolved from Radicalism to ruler of Northern Syria—By Sara Harmouch , American University A major offensive has seen rebel groups in Syria retake the country’s second city, Aleppo – and de...
- + Shamash! “The Museum”—Panel #17 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Why is Iran so Central to US Policy? An Interview with Doyen of US Iran Experts, Gary Sick (Pt. 1)—Gary Sick was the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter. He was present at the White House during some turbulent times- the ...
- + Israel Committing War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing in N. Gaza: Former Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon—( Middle East Monitor ) – Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon accused the army on Sunday of committing war crimes in the nort...
- + Trump’s Second Coming: “I never realized before that men hate us so much.”—( Tomdispatch.com ) – “I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers...
- + Syria as Putin’s Afghanistan: How a Radical Fundamentalist take-over of Damascus could Change the Middle East—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The collapse of the Baathist government of Syria in the north of the country, as the al-Qaeda affiliate HTS (H...
- + Netherlands Supreme Court advised to uphold Israel F-35 Components Export Ban—( Middle East Monitor ) – The advocate general of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the country’s highest court, was advised on Frid...
- + A tax on new Plastic would slash Waste – if built into the global Treaty on Plastics—By Amelia Leavesley , The University of Melbourne (The Conversation) – Earlier this week, the mining magnate Andrew Forrest made headlin...
- + Shamash! “The Statue”—Panel #16 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Shamash! “The Stature”—Panel #16 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Killing One innocent Soul is the Same as Killing all of Humanity: Jewish and Muslim Teachings against Cosmocide—The below is an excerpt from my essay, “The Sin of Cosmocide,” for Renovatio , the literary magazine of Zaytuna, the Muslim liberal arts...
- + Killing One innocent Soul is the Same of Killing all of Humanity: Jewish and Muslim Teachings against Cosmocide—The below is an excerpt from my essay, “The Sin of Cosmocide,” for Renovatio , the literary magazine of Zaytuna, the Muslim liberal arts...
- + Hypocritical Rejection of Netanyahu Warrant: Washington Holds that the Int’l Criminal Court is only for Enemies and People of Color—( Middle East Monitor ) – The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an...
- + Gaza’s cultural Heritage has been devastated by the Conflict with Israel – this is how we’re documenting the Damage—By Michael Fradley , University of Oxford ; Andrew Petersen , University of Bradford , and Bill Finlayson , University of Oxford (Th...
- + In Sunny Spain, cheap Solar Power set to overtake Wind Generation, backed by Socialist Government and Co-ops—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Spain’s photovoltaic electricity production is set to surpass its wind power, according to China’...
- + A Week after Int’l Criminal Court Warrants, Israel’s Natanyahu Intensifies Destruction of Gaza—By Sabri Saidam ( Middle East Monitor ) – As soon as the arrest warrant was issued against the head of the Occupation government, the Occ...
- + Universities should not silence Research and Speech on Palestine—By Heidi Matthews , York University, Canada ; Fatima Ahdash , Hamad Bin Khalifa University , and Priya Gupta , McGill University (T...
- + Consumer Solar Surge: Pakistan Shows you Don’t Need Government Programs to Green the Grid—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – While no one was looking, the Pakistani public took matters into their own hands, adding 17 gigawatts of solar...
- + Israel blocked all humanitarian aid for northern Gaza in November, says UN—The UN announced yesterday that Israel has blocked or obstructed all attempts to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip throu...
- + Iran and Israel Seek to Control online Narrative of their Conflict in advance of Next Hot Exchange—By Shirvin Zeinalzadeh, Arizona State University | (The Conversation) – Is Iran poised for a succession in leadership? Well, that depends o...
- + Shamash! “On the Run”—Panel #15 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Lebanon Ceasefire underlines that both Israel and Hezbollah Lost the War—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Iran and Iraq were fighting each other in the 1980s, with neither regime being much liked in Washington, for...
- + Protesting Criticism of Approved Gaza Course Proposal by Cornell University President—Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Michael I. Kotlikoff Interim President, Cornell University m...
- + We Can’t Let Ourselves be overwhelmed: Countering Trump’s Falsehoods Is More Urgent Than Ever—( Tomdispatch.com ) – During this year’s presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth...
- + Shamash! “Deadly Smoke”—Panel #14 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Israeli total War Continues, with “No end in sight” for Palestinians in Gaza — Cold, Drenched, Homeless and Hungry—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Muhannad Hadi, the special UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, addressed the a...
- + A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments—By Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors t...
- + Why the EU’s Stance on Israel is starting to Change—Catherine Gegout , University of Nottingham (The Conversation) – The EU has stood in solidarity with Israel since the start of the war w...
- + Shamash! “Crude Attack”—Panel #13 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + A critical Look at the FBI and its Domestic Surveillance Approach — Then and Now—Crestview, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has long been regarded as the preeminent domes...
- + A critical Look at the FBI and its Domestic Surveillance Approach – Then and Now—Crestview, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has long been regarded as the preeminent domes...
- + France says it will Arrest Israel’s Netanyahu on Int’l Criminal Court Warrant if he Comes to France—( Middle East Monitor ) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Sunday said France would implement international law in relation to th...
- + Lifting from the Bottom: How to Survive Donald Trump’s America—By Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes ( Tomdispatch.com ) – “If they do these things when the wood is green, what will hap...
- + Shamash! Crude—Panel #12 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + What will Trump’s Second Term mean for the Middle East?—Trabzon, Turkey (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The U.S. presidential elections are among the most consequential for the Middle East, s...
- + Saudi Arabia Pursues ‘Cautious Detente’ With Longtime Rival Iran despite Looming Trump 2.0—By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL ) – Iran and Saudi Arabia have been bitter rivals for decades, vying to lead competing branches of Islam and ...
- + Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening Ocean Circulation, speeding up Warming down South—By Laurie Menviel , UNSW Sydney and Gabriel Pontes , UNSW Sydney (The Conversation) – A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed th...
- + Shamash! The Office—Panel #11 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + “Gaza Yet Stands:” Legendary Journalist Bob Scheer interviews Juan Cole on his new Book—Legendary journalist Bob Scheer interviewed me about my new book, “Gaza Yet Stands” , for his Scheerpost radio program , which is also available a...
- + Crackpot U.S. Senator Threatens to Invade Netherlands over ICC Warrants against Israel’s Netanyahu—( Middle East Monitor ) – US Senator, Tom Cotton, has threatened military action against the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it iss...
- + Will Washington pressure Ankara to reverse its anti-Israel actions? Turkey Turns Screws on Israel—By Philip Balboni ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Since October 7, 2023, Turkey has occupied an awkward and uncertain role amid the ongoi...
- + Shamash! “The Job”—Panel #10 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + What could go Wrong? Some wealthy Jewish Americans risk alliance with Trump’s White Christian Nationalism—Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A small coterie of wealthy Jewish Americans are perversely giddy and glowing over convicte...
- + The Int’l Criminal Court issues Arrest Warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, charging War Crimes—By Catherine Gegout, University of Nottingham | – (The Conversation) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest war...
- + A Final Speech from the Great Disruptor (If only in my Dreams)—( Tomdispatch.com ) – My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and “the arc of the moral un...
- + Shamash! “The Fall”—Panel #9 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Pope Francis Calls for Painstaking Investigation into Whether Israeli War on Gaza is a Genocide—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Pope Francis has a new book, Hope never disappoints. Pilgrims towards a better world . The English version is ...
- + Analysis of 184 Israeli Forced Displacement Orders in Gaza shows they are a Crime Against Humanity—Nadia_Hardman ( Human Rights Watch ) – Removing civilians from harm’s way in advance of an attack is the right thing for warring pa...
- + Gaza: Outlook for Palestinians Bleak under a Trump Presidency that will go ‘all the way’ with Netanyahu—By Clive Jones, Durham University | – (The Conversation) – The amount of aid reaching Gaza has fallen to an 11-month low accordin...
- + Shamash! “Betrayal”—Panel #8 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down—Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of...
- + Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy—Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Sally Kornbluth President Sally.kornbluth@mit.edu . . ...
- + Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power—( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove presc...
- + Shamash! “The Leak”—Panel #7 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Post-Election Beatitude: Beating the Blues—Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whatever postures our country has projected to the world – shining city on a hi...
- + Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)—By by Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with masses...
- + Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State—Code Pink ) – Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative for...
- + Shamash! Denial—Panel #6 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan—Review of Amin Saikal, “ How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan ” (New Haven and London: Yale Univers...
- + Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water—( Middle East Monitor ) – The southern Gaza city of Khan Younis warned Saturday that a week-long fuel shortage has left more than 1.2 million ...
- + Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump—( Tomdispatch.com ) – When the election results came in on November 4th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced...
- + Shamash! Petcoke—Panel #5 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Cup, disputed territory and green energy are three of the things that increasingly make the world go ro...
- + Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘Apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South—By Dennis Altman, La Trobe University | – In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank an...
- + Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush anticolonial Resistance—The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-suprema...
- + Shamash! “Heading Out”—Panel #4 Previous panels : > [Category: Shamash]
- + Gaza as Israel’s AI-Driven High-Tech Genocide: UN—Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new repor...
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