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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Iran
Iran’s Khamenei Pledges No War with US, but Rejects Talks under Sanctions Shadow

Iran’s Khamenei Pledges No War with US, but Rejects Talks under Sanctions Shadow

Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s supreme leader said Monday there would be neither war nor negotiations with the United States, and that the country’s problems were […]

Eric Randolph

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Multi-Cultural Crowd Rallies in Tel Aviv against Likud Apartheid Law

Multi-Cultural Crowd Rallies in Tel Aviv against Likud Apartheid Law

“The most excluded and oppressed group in Israel, and the one most seriously harmed by the nation-state law, proudly made its voice heard in the city square”

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Farmers in War-Torn Afghanistan Hit by Worst Drought in Decades

Farmers in War-Torn Afghanistan Hit by Worst Drought in Decades

With Emal Haidary | – Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan) (AFP) – After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined […]

AFP

Pollution
France to set Penalties on Plastic Waste, Ban Straws

France to set Penalties on Plastic Waste, Ban Straws

Paris (AFP) – France plans to introduce a penalty system next year that would increase the costs of consumer goods with packaging made of non-recycled […]

Julien Dury

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Arrest of Women's Rights Activists puts it on Wrong Side of History

Saudi Arabia’s Arrest of Women’s Rights Activists puts it on Wrong Side of History

From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable

Zainah Anwar

Native Americans
Sharice Davids, Native American and Gay, Aiming for US Congress

Sharice Davids, Native American and Gay, Aiming for US Congress

In a political arena dominated by White, mostly straight men, Davids – a former Mixed Martial Arts fighter – is aiming high. Sharice Davids, who […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian-Israelis and Jewish-Israelis Stage Huge Protest against Apartheid Law

Palestinian-Israelis and Jewish-Israelis Stage Huge Protest against Apartheid Law

By Majeda El-Batsh Tel Aviv (AFP) – Tens of thousands of Arab Israelis and their supporters chanted against “apartheid” and for “equality” on Saturday in […]

AFP

Donald Trump
Trump's "Space Force": More 'Whitey on the Moon'

Trump’s “Space Force”: More ‘Whitey on the Moon’

Repurposed. If they can keep proposing the same brain dead policies, I can keep writing the same article. Trump and Pence want to spend $8 […]

Juan Cole

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Trump Tweets help Crash Turkish Currency as Pres. Erdogan Lashes Out

Trump Tweets help Crash Turkish Currency as Pres. Erdogan Lashes Out

Turkish strong man Tayyip Erdogan is complaining about Donald Trump’s playing hard ball with his country, at a time when the Turkish lira is collapsing […]

Juan Cole

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