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No, Despite Hegseth, we Don’t need an even “More Lethal” NATO
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No, Despite Hegseth, we Don’t need an even “More Lethal” NATO

Anne-Ruth Wertheim

By Pieter Smit and Anne-Ruth Wertheim | – Translated by Kevin Cook | – ( BNNVARA.NL ) – After Secretary-General Mark Rutte said in his […]

IC Fundraising Appeal:  Support Independent Journalism in a Year of Living Dangerously

IC Fundraising Appeal: Support Independent Journalism in a Year of Living Dangerously

10/07/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

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Five Million Children Risk Famine in Saudi-led War on Yemen

Five Million Children Risk Famine in Saudi-led War on Yemen

Sanaa (AFP) – More than five million children are threatened by famine in war-torn Yemen as prices soar, a charity said Wednesday, warning an entire […]

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Trump's China Tariffs on Solar backfire; American Natural Gas hurt, as US PV sales Soar

Trump’s China Tariffs on Solar backfire; American Natural Gas hurt, as US PV sales Soar

(Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump’s 30% tariff on Chinese-made solar panels turns out not to have had as severe an impact on the industry […]

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The Cost of Exposing Israel's Illegal Squatter Settlements

The Cost of Exposing Israel’s Illegal Squatter Settlements

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Bernie Sanders & Yanis Varoufakis call for Progressive Front against Trump’s Neo-Fascist International

Bernie Sanders & Yanis Varoufakis call for Progressive Front against Trump’s Neo-Fascist International

By Luis Martín | – Via OpenDemocracy.net Calling on progressives worldwide to form an international movement to combat the rise of authoritarianism represented by Donald […]

Open Democracy

Yemen
Yemen's Descent into Hell:  A Saudi-American War of Terror

Yemen’s Descent into Hell: A Saudi-American War of Terror

(Tomdispatch.com) – It’s the war from hell, the savage one that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with seven other Middle Eastern and […]

Rajan Menon

Puerto Rico
Puerto Ricans displaced to Mainland by Hurricane, Trump Neglect, abandoned by FEMA

Puerto Ricans displaced to Mainland by Hurricane, Trump Neglect, abandoned by FEMA

New York (AFP) – They arrived in New York from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island in September 2017, leaving widespread devastation in […]

Ceclia Butini

Donald Trump
US, having created 4 mn Refugees in Iraq, Slashes Immigrant cap to 30,000

US, having created 4 mn Refugees in Iraq, Slashes Immigrant cap to 30,000

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the Trump administration would slash refugee admissions to 30,000 in 2019, down from 45,000 in 2018 and […]

Juan Cole

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Rape:  The Credibility of the Accusers

Rape: The Credibility of the Accusers

(Informed Comment) – When a psychology professor stepped forward to share her story of an alleged assault by the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, more […]

Gail Ukockis

Syria
Putin agrees with Erdogan to Spare Syria’s Idlib from Assault if Radical Fighters Withdraw

Putin agrees with Erdogan to Spare Syria’s Idlib from Assault if Radical Fighters Withdraw

By Maria PANINA | – Sochi (Russia) (AFP) – Moscow said Monday there would be no assault on Syria’s Idlib as the leaders of Russia […]

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