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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War
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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on […]

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A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

10/12/2025 By Shamai Leibowitz

We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

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How Kushner and other Key Trump Officials Plotted to Give Saudis the Atom Bomb in Return for Billions

How Kushner and other Key Trump Officials Plotted to Give Saudis the Atom Bomb in Return for Billions

For all we know, the plan to give the Saudis a nuke is still in play

Juan Cole

Far Right
White Terrorist in Coast Guard who Plotted Mass Killings of Dems, Journalists is Arrested

White Terrorist in Coast Guard who Plotted Mass Killings of Dems, Journalists is Arrested

By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, DC (AFP) – A US Coast Guard officer who espoused white supremacist views and drafted a target list of […]

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Europe Rejects Trump’s demand they Take Back Captured ISIL Extremists

Europe Rejects Trump’s demand they Take Back Captured ISIL Extremists

The Kurds have warned the West that they lack the resources to ensure the foreign jihadists in their jails don’t escape

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European Union
Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018

Morocco Produced 35% of its Electricity from Renewables in 2018

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Morocco produced 35% of its electricity last year from wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources, putting it on track to its […]

Juan Cole

Immigration
Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us

Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us

She used her networking skills to track down some of the extremist leaders of the anti-immigrant movement, then she went to see them.

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Counter-Terrorism
Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US 'Global War on Terror'

Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US ‘Global War on Terror’

in the last two years, the U.S. has launched strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.

Stephanie Savell

Antisemitism
French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace

French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace

Strasbourg (AFP) – Around 80 graves have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said, hours ahead of nationwide […]

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Israel/ Palestine
John Legend: "For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians"

John Legend: “For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians”

“It means we see a young Palestinian kid not as a future security threat or demographic challenge, but as a future father, mother and lover.”

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Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump

Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump

As a historian of the Middle East, let me just point out that declaring a state of emergency is a means of creating a president for life

Juan Cole

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