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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

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The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

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Russia Moving Military Assets To Africa After Syria Setback

Russia Moving Military Assets To Africa After Syria Setback

By Maja Zivanovic and Jean Fernand Koena ( RFE/RL ) – Russia is reducing its military footprint in Syria and shifting some of its assets from […]

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Climate Crisis
Climate Change Taking the World’s Four Legacy Empires Down:

Climate Change Taking the World’s Four Legacy Empires Down:

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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Irony is Dead: Netanyahu cannot Attend Auschwitz Ceremony for Fear of Arrest on ICC Warrant for War Crimes

Irony is Dead: Netanyahu cannot Attend Auschwitz Ceremony for Fear of Arrest on ICC Warrant for War Crimes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Poland […]

Juan Cole

Hizbullah
Iran’s Axis Crumbles as Hezbollah Falters and Assad Falls.

Iran’s Axis Crumbles as Hezbollah Falters and Assad Falls.

Iran faces a sobering recalibration of its regional ambitions

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Crisis
Climate, Migration and Conflict mix to create ‘deadly’ intense Tropical Storms like Chido

Climate, Migration and Conflict mix to create ‘deadly’ intense Tropical Storms like Chido

By Liz Stephens, University of Reading; Dan Green, University of Bristol, and Luis Artur, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (The Conversation) – Cyclone Chido was an “intense […]

The Conversation

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Gaza’s Afflictions:  A Proem

Gaza’s Afflictions: A Proem

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Empathy will never be exhausted as gaza schools and hospitals  are torn asunder by pilots in fighter jets, […]

Hugh J. Curran

Israel
The Emerging Bitter Israeli-Turkish Rivalry in Syria

The Emerging Bitter Israeli-Turkish Rivalry in Syria

By Amin Saikal, Australian National University (The Conversation) – The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has opened a new front for geopolitical competition […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza

Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza

Authorities’ Widespread Deprivation of Water Threatens Survival

Human Rights Watch

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Syria’s New Fundamentalist Government: Women “biologically” Unsuited to Politics, Universities to be Segregated

Syria’s New Fundamentalist Government: Women “biologically” Unsuited to Politics, Universities to be Segregated

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Obeida Arnaout, the spokesman for the Sunni fundamentalist Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS) gave an interview on […]

Juan Cole

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