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History Continues to Serve Foreign Policy: Why Israel Finally Recognized the Armenian Genocide
16+ hour, 43+ min ago (468+ words) Informed Comment...
At 250, American Democracy is Under Siege
17+ hour, 27+ min ago (598+ words) " 2026 Informed Comment ( Otherwords ) " This Fourth of July marks the250thbirthday of a new kind of nation state " based not on ancestral ties to a land or on the territorial reach of monarchs, but on shared principles about the rights of citizens and…...
Having the Oldest President in History has gotten Old Fast
18+ hour, 11+ min ago (339+ words) " 2026 Informed Comment ( Tom Engelhardt Substack ) " Yes, I've written about it before (and before that, too), but it still strikes me whenever" oh, sorry, this almost 82-year-old just nodded off (like "our" President Donald Trump in the middle of a thought)…...
That Time when Iran and the U. S. allied against a Common Foe
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (402+ words) That Time when Iran and the U. S....
Are America's Gulf bases Turning Allies into Targets?
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (478+ words) " 2026 Informed Comment Middle East Monitor 07/01/2026 ( Middle East Monitor ) " There is a hard truth Gulf capitals do not like to say aloud: hosting an American base does not only buy protection. It also rents out geography. It turns ports, airfields and…...
UN Finds 'Overwhelming' Scale of Children Killed in Gaza
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (1029+ words) " 2026 Informed Comment By Shannon Bosch, Edith Cowan University (The Conversation) " A recent United Nations report has detailed serious allegations of Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children during the conflict since October 2023. The report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry…...
How Big Oil Funded / Shaped a Landmark Princeton Climate Study
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1745+ words) " 2026 Informed Comment By Katie Worth | " ( Pro Publica ) " It is rare that a single scientific paper shapes'how people think about a challenge as daunting as climate change. But one, known as "Wedges," published 22 years ago by researchers at Princeton University, told…...
Protesting the intensifying Repression of Students across Iran
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1287+ words) Informed Comment...
"The Angel with his darker Draught:" Fitz Gerald's Rub'iy't of Omar Khayy'm 1: 48
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (433+ words) " 2026 Informed Comment In stanza 48 of the first edition of his 1859 translation of the Rub'iy't of Omar Khayy'm, Edward Fitz Gerald addresses the certainty of death and the need to face it with good cheer and a realistic acknowledgment that it…...
Netanyahu's War on Humanity: Ethnically Cleansing the Palestinian West Bank
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (707+ words) Informed Comment...