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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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Countering Turkish Propaganda, Pentagon reports 150 ISIL Killed in Airstrikes

Countering Turkish Propaganda, Pentagon reports 150 ISIL Killed in Airstrikes

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The front page news today that US and coalition aircraft (mostly American joined by French and […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump slashes funding to most vulnerable Palestinians, children (UNRWA)

Trump slashes funding to most vulnerable Palestinians, children (UNRWA)

By Anne Irfan | (The Conversation) | – – The Trump administration has announced that it will drastically cut its donations to the UN Relief […]

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The Norwegians are Coming! The Norwegians are Coming!

The Norwegians are Coming! The Norwegians are Coming!

By Ann Jones | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In the past couple of weeks, thanks to the president’s racist comments about Haiti and African […]

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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

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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

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