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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History
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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]

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Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare

Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare

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How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

By Donald Rothwell, Australian National University (The Conversation) – The Israel Defence Force has intercepted a flotilla of humanitarian vessels seeking to deliver aid to […]

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to Northwestern University expressing concern about its flawed compulsory anti-bias training and its […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arab World
Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Israel launched an attack on Doha in September 2025, Arab and Muslim leaders convened an emergency summit. […]

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

  by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari prime […]

Binoy Kampmark

China
How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the […]

Arnold Oliver

Donald Trump
The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

  by Ronny P Sasmita ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Gaza plan unveiled by Donald Trump and reluctantly accepted by Israeli Prime Minister […]

Middle East Monitor

Arab World
Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin The US president, Donald Trump, unveiled a 20-point proposal to end the war in Gaza on September 29. The […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Gulf Cooperation Council, NATO, and the Collapse of Collective Security

The Gulf Cooperation Council, NATO, and the Collapse of Collective Security

San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Within the span of 24 hours in early September, Russia deployed drones into Polish airspace, and […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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