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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?
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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human-caused global heating is hitting the Middle East hard, and rates of cancer in Middle Eastern women are increasing. Is […]

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

06/12/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

06/12/2025 By The Conversation

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Iran
Iran: Europe Hasn’t yet Shown It Will Defy Trump to Preserve Nuclear Deal

Iran: Europe Hasn’t yet Shown It Will Defy Trump to Preserve Nuclear Deal

Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that Europe had not yet shown it was willing to “pay the price” of […]

AFP

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India plans 58 GW of new Solar Energy by 2022, as Trump unleashes Dirty Coal

India plans 58 GW of new Solar Energy by 2022, as Trump unleashes Dirty Coal

India has achieved 70 gigawatts of installed renewable capacity, and has another 40 gigs under construction or already bid on. That would take it to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Rejects UN Plea to Allow Blue Helmet Protection to Palestinians, Blames Palestinians

Israel Rejects UN Plea to Allow Blue Helmet Protection to Palestinians, Blames Palestinians

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Israel has rejected a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres outlining options for strengthening the protection of Palestinians in […]

AFP

Turkey
Turkey’s Homemade Currency Crisis Could Roil Global Finance

Turkey’s Homemade Currency Crisis Could Roil Global Finance

By Clemens Hoffmann and Can Cemgil | – Stirling (The Conversation) – Turkey’s recently reelected president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is blaming the sudden and dramatic […]

The Conversation

China
China will Defy Trump, Trade with Iran, Rejecting "Unilateral Sanctions"

China will Defy Trump, Trade with Iran, Rejecting “Unilateral Sanctions”

China will continue its cooperation and relations with Iran, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday, citing a statement from Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi. […]

Middle East Monitor

Syria
Trump Cancels $230 mn in Syrian Aid for former ISIL Areas, Urges Saudi Fund

Trump Cancels $230 mn in Syrian Aid for former ISIL Areas, Urges Saudi Fund

Washington (AFP) – The United States said Friday it is suspending $230 million budgeted for stabilization projects in Syria, citing the aid pledged by other […]

Paul Handley

Donald Trump
Trump Corruption: Mueller Probe looks at Broidy Pay-to-Play with China, Malaysia

Trump Corruption: Mueller Probe looks at Broidy Pay-to-Play with China, Malaysia

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Mueller probe is looking into whether Elliott Broidy, former vice chair of the Trump Victory Committee and a one time […]

Juan Cole

Banking
The United States of Monopoly Rule

The United States of Monopoly Rule

(Afterwords) – Five banks control half of all U.S. financial assets, and six conglomerates control 90 percent of our media. Monopolies aren’t merely un-American — […]

Jim Hightower

Israel/ Palestine
War Crime: Israeli Army Again Shoots unarmed Palestinian Protesters, Killing 2, Injuring 270

War Crime: Israeli Army Again Shoots unarmed Palestinian Protesters, Killing 2, Injuring 270

(TeleSur) – Some 20,000 people participated in Friday’s protests, which took place a few hundred meters from the Gaza border. Israeli forces opened fire on […]

TeleSur

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