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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

10/12/2025 By Roy Eidelson

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Congress Toughening toward Saudis amid Report Prince Threatened ‘Bullet’ for Khashoggi

Congress Toughening toward Saudis amid Report Prince Threatened ‘Bullet’ for Khashoggi

US intelligence understood that the ambitious 33-year-old heir apparent was ready to kill the journalist

AFP

Climate Change
Last 5 Years Hottest on Record:  NASA, NOAA; & World Hotter than any time in 120,000 years

Last 5 Years Hottest on Record: NASA, NOAA; & World Hotter than any time in 120,000 years

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) and its sister agency NOAA report that the past 5 years are the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Grand Ayatollah Sistani Slaps down Trump: You may not use Iraq against its Neighbors

Grand Ayatollah Sistani Slaps down Trump: You may not use Iraq against its Neighbors

“Iraq wants balanced relations with neighboring countries, avoiding interfering in their internal affairs or detracting from their sovereignty.”

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BDS
Lawsuit Against Salaita & American Studies Assn for Boycotting Israel Dismissed

Lawsuit Against Salaita & American Studies Assn for Boycotting Israel Dismissed

These desperate lawsuits brought to silence advocates of Palestinian rights make it even clearer who wants to silence debate

Democracy Now!

workers
Labor Strikes, once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy

Labor Strikes, once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy

The teachers strikes have been focused on demands that have a major impact on the quality of classroom instruction

John Buell

Donald Trump
Trump Hawks don't Care about Democracy, they Want a Brutal Coup for Venezuelan Oil

Trump Hawks don’t Care about Democracy, they Want a Brutal Coup for Venezuelan Oil

This fall, the same Pompeo shared a photo of himself beaming and shaking hands with the murderous Saudi Arabian crown prince

Peter Certo

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians Fear Caravan of Illegal Immigration – of Israeli Squatters to Palestine

Palestinians Fear Caravan of Illegal Immigration – of Israeli Squatters to Palestine

Jerusalem Court ruled that if Israeli settlers built a settlement on private Palestinian land with “good intentions,” it should not be removed

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump
Trump Can't escape having called Nazis "Very Fine People" by SOTU Spectacle

Trump Can’t escape having called Nazis “Very Fine People” by SOTU Spectacle

So this is the story of how Donald Trump tried to use misdirection at his State of the Union address to take the spotlight off […]

Juan Cole

Pentagon
US must probe if Saudis gave US Weapons to al-Qaeda in Yemen: General

US must probe if Saudis gave US Weapons to al-Qaeda in Yemen: General

Saudi-led coalition has allegedly transferred American-made weapons and military vehicles to Qaeda-linked fighters, hardline Salafi militias

AFP

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