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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East
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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After thirty years of agitation, incitement, lies and provocation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally succeeded in […]

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

06/24/2025 By The Conversation

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

06/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians in Jerusalem and West Bank join Gaza in General Strike to protest Pence

Palestinians in Jerusalem and West Bank join Gaza in General Strike to protest Pence

IMEMC | – – As U.S. Vice President and Christian Zionist Mike Pence visited Jerusalem Tuesday, Palestinian stores and businesses across the city and across […]

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Arab World
Jordan's King Abdullah warns Pence-Trump of Major instability over Jerusalem

Jordan’s King Abdullah warns Pence-Trump of Major instability over Jerusalem

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Political scientist John Mearsheimer wrote a book on the tragedy of great power politics. While that […]

Juan Cole

Pentagon
Top Trump officials, in Syria's Raqqa, vow "Stabilization" w/out "Reconstruction"

Top Trump officials, in Syria’s Raqqa, vow “Stabilization” w/out “Reconstruction”

Middle East Monitor | – – The US government’s aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria on Monday, the most […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
World's Richest 1% Acquired 82% of Wealth in 2017: Report

World’s Richest 1% Acquired 82% of Wealth in 2017: Report

TeleSur | – – Only 42 people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50 percent worldwide, the report claimed. Nearly 82 percent […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump Year 2: We refuse to be Terrorized

Trump Year 2: We refuse to be Terrorized

San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) | – A little over a year ago at TomDispatch I wrote about the bloody nightmares rupturing my sleep and the night […]

Rebecca Gordon

Featured
Turkey launches Land invasion of Syria, Calls France opposition "Terrorism"

Turkey launches Land invasion of Syria, Calls France opposition “Terrorism”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Arabic reports that Turkey has launched a land invasion of the Kurdish-majority Afrin canton in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Trump's deeming Jerusalem Israeli Capital Portends Fiercer Mideast, Iran Conflicts

Trump’s deeming Jerusalem Israeli Capital Portends Fiercer Mideast, Iran Conflicts

By Kenneth Brown | (Informed Comment) | – – As a visiting student in Jerusalem I witnessed the 1956 Suez war against Egypt, the attempt […]

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China
Is China coming into Syria for its "One Belt, One Road"?

Is China coming into Syria for its “One Belt, One Road”?

By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | – – As the Syrian civil war begins to wind down after six and a half years of […]

Neil Thompson

Egypt
Pence starts Middle East tour in Egypt, pledges ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ support

Pence starts Middle East tour in Egypt, pledges ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ support

Middle East Monitor | – – US Vice President Mike Pence kicked off a trip to the Middle East on Saturday with a visit to […]

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