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Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
Donald Trump

Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the three criminal […]

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

07/01/2025 By The Conversation

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

07/01/2025 By Andrew J. Bacevich

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Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet

Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian side of the story, presented in the Syrian press, is that an al-Qaeda-linked group […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

TeleSur | – – Two left-wing groups in the U.S. organized the letters campaign and protests marking the the 17th birthday of the imprised Palestinian […]

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Arms Sales
Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe

Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe

By Miriam Pemberton | (Otherwords.org) | – – Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the […]

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Donald Trump
The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate

The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians that the Nunes memo is a dud, dead on […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen

Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen

Middle East Monitor | – – Violent clashes broke out Thursday in Al-Mahrah governorate between Saudi Arabia’s forces and unidentified armed smugglers, Aden Tomorrow reported. […]

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Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes

Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes

TeleSur | – – Facebook seems to have deleted the racist, sexist group’s page while the popular movie-ranking site announced its plan as hate speech. […]

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Environment
11 billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs

11 billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs

By Joleah Lamb | (The Conversation) | – – There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific, […]

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Donald Trump
Spying on the Wrong People: The Hypocrisy of the Nunes Memo & FISA

Spying on the Wrong People: The Hypocrisy of the Nunes Memo & FISA

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The frenzy over the Nunes memo, likely to be released later today by the Trump administration, […]

Juan Cole

Banking
The Great Trump Bubble

The Great Trump Bubble

Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald […]

Juan Cole

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