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Saudi Arabia in Modern History
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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

08/14/2025 By Global Voices

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

08/14/2025 By The Conversation

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Syria
Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Jerusalem (AFP) – Gains by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the Syrian civil war present advantages for Israel even though the two countries remain technically […]

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Did Tillerson lose his Job over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar?

Did Tillerson lose his Job over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar?

Alex Emmons at The Intercept interviewed two former State Department officials and one intelligence official who confirmed to him that in early June, 2017, Saudi […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump and the Collapse of American Soft Power in the World

Trump and the Collapse of American Soft Power in the World

By Sara Greco | – Ottawa (The Conversation) – At the recent Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president used the […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Urgent: End Israeli Occupation of Palestine, Restore Iran Deal, and Denuclearize ME

Urgent: End Israeli Occupation of Palestine, Restore Iran Deal, and Denuclearize ME

Launched by professors at Princeton University and signed by experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this declaration calls for a break with the policy […]

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Iraq
Broke: US-Installed Iraqi Elite Spent or Stole all $700 bn in Oil Revenue since 2005

Broke: US-Installed Iraqi Elite Spent or Stole all $700 bn in Oil Revenue since 2005

Baghdad (AFP) – Iraq has raised more than $700 billion from oil since 2005, but almost the entire amount has been spent, the central bank […]

AFP

Climate Change
Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Tampa (AFP) – Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the […]

Kerry Sheridan

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Israel's Druze Minority Furious over Apartheid Law, Given their Military Service.

Israel’s Druze Minority Furious over Apartheid Law, Given their Military Service.

Israel may never have been paradise for the some 20% of its citizens who are non-Jewish and Arabic-speaking. They did face de facto and sometimes […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Saudi King overrules Crown Prince, Rejects Trump's Sell-Out of Palestinians

Saudi King overrules Crown Prince, Rejects Trump’s Sell-Out of Palestinians

Insists that E Jerusalem must be capital of Palestine

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Judge gives Palestinian Poet 5 Months in Prison for her Resistance Verse

Israeli Judge gives Palestinian Poet 5 Months in Prison for her Resistance Verse

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Magistrate Court of Nazareth sentenced Palestinian poet Darin Tatour, from the al-Reineh village in northern Israel, to five months of […]

Maan News Agency

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