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As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note
Authoritarianism

As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

Arnold Oliver

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the […]

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

10/02/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

10/02/2025 By The Conversation

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Iraq
Party of Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tables Bill to expel US Troops from Iraq

Party of Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tables Bill to expel US Troops from Iraq

If passed, the bill would require all foreign military deployments — including troops and advisers — to leave the country within one year

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?

When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?

Like the Red Army, the U.S. military will finally leave that country in defeat and will bring that defeat home with them.

Tom Engelhardt

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Ireland Bans Israeli Settler goods from Occupied Palestinian West Bank

Ireland Bans Israeli Settler goods from Occupied Palestinian West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland’s parliament has voted by 78 votes to 45 to ban the importation into Ireland of goods produced by Israeli […]

Juan Cole

Plutocracy
Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers:  "Let them Eat Debt!"

Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers: “Let them Eat Debt!”

By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, D.C. (AFP) – Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary fueled accusations Thursday that the US administration was deaf to the […]

Chris Lefkow

Syria
With Trump out, Putin and Turkey's Erdogan Carve up Syria

With Trump out, Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan Carve up Syria

Moscow plans to organise a three-way summit with Turkey and Iran early this year

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses

MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses

The attacks, assaults, and detentions described above are grave violations of basic rights to education and academic freedom.

Judith E. Tucker

Far Right
White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump's Wall

White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump’s Wall

The wall would be “a powerful architectural statement of the determination of the American people to defend their nation and its Anglo-Saxon heritage”

AFP

Donald Trump
Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children

Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can't Escape Spotlight

From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can’t Escape Spotlight

New Human Rights Watch Report out Now

Human Rights Watch

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