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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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Israel/ Palestine
Israel Orders School Razed, Halt to Construction of Homes in Hebron, Palestine

Israel Orders School Razed, Halt to Construction of Homes in Hebron, Palestine

Israeli authorities seek to displace Masafer Yatta residents, in order to seize their lands

Maan News Agency

Iran
40 Years on, is Iran a Status Quo Power or a Threat to ME Regional Security?

40 Years on, is Iran a Status Quo Power or a Threat to ME Regional Security?

(Informed Comment) – The US-Iranian relations remain conflictual forty years after the revolution and with an uncertain future. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s […]

Ali Abootalebi

Israel
Gantz Targets Netanyahu in Israeli Election:  'Ridiculous' for Indicted PM to Serve

Gantz Targets Netanyahu in Israeli Election: ‘Ridiculous’ for Indicted PM to Serve

By Laurent Lozano | – Jerusalem (AFP) – A picture taken on January 29, 2019, shows the podium where former Israeli chief of staff Benny […]

AFP

Corruption
Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

The US is so corrupt that our ruling, Republican Party, would even deny human-made climate change and adopt pro-carbon policies

Juan Cole

Immigration
Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump's Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary

Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump’s Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary

We are dropping American made bombs on countries … the US then made the decision to block those people inside those countries…”

TeleSur

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians need Int’l Protection until Israeli Occupation Ends: PLO

Palestinians need Int’l Protection until Israeli Occupation Ends: PLO

Netanyahu has made clear that even Israeli squatter installations considered illegal by Israeli law will not be removed

Maan News Agency

Islamophobia
How to Talk about Islamophobia in the Age of Trump: There aren't Two Sides to Bigotry

How to Talk about Islamophobia in the Age of Trump: There aren’t Two Sides to Bigotry

Trump cynically invoked the dreaded Muslim Boogeyman.

Basil Abdelkarim

Pentagon
Our Man from Boeing: Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump's Pentagon?

Our Man from Boeing: Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump’s Pentagon?

Candidate Donald Trump saw the revolving door between government and industry as a problem.

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Bolton & Trump's Gerontocrats may drag us into Venezuela over Oil when they could just buy an EV

Bolton & Trump’s Gerontocrats may drag us into Venezuela over Oil when they could just buy an EV

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are many things wrong with National Security Adviser John Bolton, but the worst is his fixation on petroleum politics. […]

Juan Cole

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