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2 weeks ago | 
juancole.com | Hugh Curran |Juan Cole
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – There are mornings when we are unable to bear to listen to the news taking place in Gaza as it is so deeply distressing that the mind shuts down at the daily bombing and the horrific death count.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Kim Petersen |Hugh Curran |Dan Lieberman |Binoy Kampmark
The New York Times yesterday (11 March 2025) headlined: “Trump Intensifies Statehood Threats in Attack on Canada.” What particularly stood out was the sub headline: “The U.S. president on Tuesday reiterated his claims on Canada’s territory as he increased tariffs, threatening to bring the country’s economy to its knees.”How are Canadians supposed to feel about being threatened? How are Canadians to feel about the indignity of being brought economically to their knees?
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Hugh Curran |Dan Lieberman |Binoy Kampmark |Phil Pasquini
Among tariffs, territorial ambitions and other threats to America’s well-being by Pres. Trump, one of the more severe threats may be his willful ignorance concerning the severity of climate change. Michael Mann, one of America’s most highly regarded climatologists, noted that the Trump Administration has given polluters and fossil fuel promoters, “the keys to the fossil fuel car allowing it to be driven over the cliff”.
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2 months ago | 
juancole.com | Hugh Curran |Juan Cole
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Among tariffs, territorial ambitions and other threats to America’s well-being by Pres. Trump, one of the more severethreats may be his willful ignorance concerning the severity of climate change. Michael Mann, one of America’s most highly regarded climatologists, noted that the Trump Administration has given polluters and fossil fuel promoters, “the keys to the fossil fuel car allowing it to be driven over the cliff”.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
juancole.com | Hugh Curran |Juan Cole
We are closed in, and the key is turned on our uncertainty…We had fed the heart on fantasies, the heart’s grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love; (WB Yeats,The Empty House of the Stare) Traumas make for suffering as scholasticide becomes a destroyer of learning, thus tearing asunder the intricate tapestry that once was Gaza; Disintegrating communities satisfy the perverse faces of self-deception as an ethnocratic leadership legitimizes their criminal...
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Ranjan Solomon |Tamara Nassar |Hugh Curran |Gideon Polya
Trump’s threat that all hell will break loose if Israeli hostages are not released by the time he takes office is something he will probably hold fast to. A Palestinian colleague tells me: This could well be Trump’s threat to Israel. As a transactionalist, ideologue, Trump has his share of business-style agendas. He wants the normalization schema and route to stay undeterred. But to reach Syria and UAE, he cannot preside over an ethnic cleansing as Biden might have done.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Irfan Gull |Prem Singh |Tamara Nassar |Hugh Curran
Since August 5, 2019, the central government has actively fostered new fault lines in Jammu and Kashmir, with the most prominent and delusional examples being the Reorganization Act and the new Reservation Policy. Both of these measures were crafted not only to deepen communal divisions but also to limit any popular mandate that does not align with the central government’s directives.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Tamara Nassar |Hugh Curran |Gideon Polya |Yanis Varoufakis
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Around 200 Israeli soldiers have signed a letter stating they’d stop serving in Gaza if the government didn’t secure a ceasefire. The soldiers acknowledged their involvement in war crimes, including the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians and the destruction of homes. According to The Associated Press ( AP), while the movement is small, the soldiers say it’s the tip of the iceberg and they want others to come forward.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Tamara Nassar |Hugh Curran |Gideon Polya |Yanis Varoufakis
It has been over a month since the Palestinian Authority launched a deadly military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. So far, at least 14 people, including six members of the PA forces, have been killed during the operation, which is purportedly targeting armed Palestinians in the camp with the aim of disarming them. But just like the Israeli assaults on which it appears to be modeled, the violence and siege tactics indiscriminately harm local residents.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Hugh Curran |Gideon Polya |Yanis Varoufakis |Ramzy Baroud
Voting in favor of sanctioning the International Criminal Court of Justice, (ICC) which had ordered Israel to take steps to prevent genocide in Gaza, was dismaying. Such decisions to sanction the ICC by Representatives of Congress erodes the ability of the high court to adhere to the principles of “ International Humanitarian Law, whose purpose is to reduce suffering during war”.
