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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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What do the Warring Parties in Yemen Want, now that the Conflict is Heating Up?

What do the Warring Parties in Yemen Want, now that the Conflict is Heating Up?

The military conflict now escalating in Yemen threatens the lives of more than 250,000 people in the port city Hodeidah

Kelly McFarland

Syria
Plot Thickens:  Israeli Airstrike blamed for Killing 22 Iraqi Shiite Militiamen in Syria

Plot Thickens: Israeli Airstrike blamed for Killing 22 Iraqi Shiite Militiamen in Syria

More than 20 fighters from an Iraqi paramilitary force key to the battle against ISIS were killed in a Syria air raid the US linked to Israel

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Immigration
Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated from their Parents at the Border

Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated from their Parents at the Border

The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children separated from their parents makes for excruciating listening

Ginger Thompson

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Top Six Dictators who also Divided Children from Parents like Trump/Sessions

Top Six Dictators who also Divided Children from Parents like Trump/Sessions

Some of the most notorious dictators of the modern era separated parents from their children

Juan Cole

Yemen
Yemen: Saudi-Led Attack on Hodeida Displaces Nearly 5,000, Endangers 70% of Food Imports

Yemen: Saudi-Led Attack on Hodeida Displaces Nearly 5,000, Endangers 70% of Food Imports

Yemeni pro-government forces, backed by Saudi Arabia, battled Huthi rebels around the key port city of Hodeida on Sunday

Fawaz al-Haidari

Poverty
Being Poor in an America run by Billionaires and Hemorrhaging War Budgets

Being Poor in an America run by Billionaires and Hemorrhaging War Budgets

Americans who barely made it through the recent recession now find themselves in conditions (in supposed good times) that seem to be worsening

Beverly Gologorsky

Donald Trump
Why do Evangelicals Keep Falling for the Trumps and Nixons?

Why do Evangelicals Keep Falling for the Trumps and Nixons?

Evangelical leaders should be wary of hitching their wagon to an amoral, corrupt president

Randall J. Stephens

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With new pro-Iran Iraq Coalition, Tehran Outmaneuvers Trump-Saudi-Israeli Axis

With new pro-Iran Iraq Coalition, Tehran Outmaneuvers Trump-Saudi-Israeli Axis

Trump allegedly complained to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that after the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranians “think they can do anything they want”

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Agency: A Grassroots Nonviolent Palestinian Movement is Israel's worst Nightmare

Agency: A Grassroots Nonviolent Palestinian Movement is Israel’s worst Nightmare

Palestinian leaders can respond to US policy by pursuing full and equal rights for all its citizens

Yaser Alashqar

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