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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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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

Climate Change
Climate Stress drove Wave of Arab Spring Refugees

Climate Stress drove Wave of Arab Spring Refugees

Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries, forcing people to flee

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
US Uses Migrant Children as 'Bait' to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit

US Uses Migrant Children as ‘Bait’ to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit

Some 10,000 migrant children being held in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters are being denied due process rights as asylum seekers, the lawsuit argues. […]

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Israeli Government Votes to Implement Trump Peace Plan for Gaza as Hamas Pledges to Uphold it

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