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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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Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds

Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds

Beirut (AFP) – Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” […]

AFP

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Trump's anti-Iran Warsaw Conference Collapsing, as Russia says Iran should have been Invited

Trump’s anti-Iran Warsaw Conference Collapsing, as Russia says Iran should have been Invited

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a conference on security in the Middle East for […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018

With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018

By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – A report by a private research company found that U.S. emissions, which amount to one-sixth of the […]

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Children
Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers

Karen J. Greenberg

Democracy
Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?

Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?

By Julius Probst | – Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea […]

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Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories

Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories

Some ten percent of greater Copenhagen’s households will be powered by wind turbines set up on 9 artificial islands off its coast

Juan Cole

Qur'an
The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong

The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong

Western accounts have discounted this emphasis that the Qur’an clearly has on peace-building, peace-making, striving against violent conflict.

Juan Cole

Morocco
Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It's "al-Hogra"

Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It’s “al-Hogra”

It is used as a vehicle for social mobilization around overlapping rights such as the right to work, to education, to health, to housing

Hsain Ilahiane

Climate Change
We’re on Course to Miss our “Best Chance” of Stopping Runaway Climate Change by 2020

We’re on Course to Miss our “Best Chance” of Stopping Runaway Climate Change by 2020

An analysis by the World Resources Institute showed that current efforts to limit temperature increases are falling well short.

AFP

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

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“From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:19

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