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Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?
China

Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?

Juan Cole

China imported 389,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil in 2025, about 4% of its total

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

01/11/2026 By The Conversation

Thousands march in Minneapolis to protest ICE after Shooting

Thousands march in Minneapolis to protest ICE after Shooting

01/11/2026 By Minnesota Reformer

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Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts

Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts

Political slogans grew sharper, and in some places the protests shifted from economic dissent to open calls for regime change.

Mohammad Eslami

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

Netanyahu continues to gamble on the possibility that international and regional opinion may eventually become receptive to ethnic cleansing

Ramzy Baroud

Germany
Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

Average CO2 emissions of new cars fell by almost 12 percent, to an average of 105.8 grammes per kilometre

Clean Energy Wire

Colonialism
Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

They discuss Cole’s career, ranging from his upbringing in a military family to becoming a leading public intellectual during the Iraq War

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

Russian and American leaders will face no barriers to the expansion of those thermonuclear arsenals

Michael T. Klare

Climate Crisis
Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

the Arctic’s climate is changing more rapidly than anywhere on Earth, further increasing the already substantial economic and personal risk

The Conversation

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Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Palestinians face “criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Power Play President

The Power Play President

For Trump, peace negotiations and military operations are simply different means to the same end: total control

John Feffer

Iran
Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

The unrest poses the most serious challenge to Iran’s political establishment since 2022

The Conversation

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