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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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As US throws Kurds under the Bus, Is Turkey preparing to invade Syria?

As US throws Kurds under the Bus, Is Turkey preparing to invade Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The BBC reports that Turkish armed forces are massed on the border with Syria in preparation […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Its Central Council calls on PLO to de-Recognize Israel, cease Security Cooperation

Its Central Council calls on PLO to de-Recognize Israel, cease Security Cooperation

IMEMC News | – – The second-highest decision-making body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) decided Monday to call on the executive committee to suspend […]

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Iran
Iran says planned US-backed force inside Syria would fan war

Iran says planned US-backed force inside Syria would fan war

Middle East Monitor | – – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday a new US-backed, 30,000-strong force inside Syria constituted a breach of international […]

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Trump as the Termite-in-Chief boring away at Global American Influence

Trump as the Termite-in-Chief boring away at Global American Influence

By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – As 2017 ended with billionaires toasting their tax cuts and energy executives cheering their unfettered access […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Turkey threatens war against US/Kurdish Force in Syria

Turkey threatens war against US/Kurdish Force in Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US announcement that it would form a 30,000 strong policing force in northeast Syria from […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Washington State activists launch ‘Climate Countdown’ for Urgent Legislative Action

Washington State activists launch ‘Climate Countdown’ for Urgent Legislative Action

Brandon Jordan | (Waging Nonviolence) | – – Climate Countdown activists rallied outside the Washington state capitol building in Olympia last week (Twitter / 350 […]

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Climate Change
Not Fighting Climate Change cost $1.5 Trillion Last Year & it is only the Beginning

Not Fighting Climate Change cost $1.5 Trillion Last Year & it is only the Beginning

By Mark Trahant | ( TrahantReports.com ) | – – The Trump administration, and its allies in Congress, are fighting a losing war. They continue […]

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Displaced and Refugees
UN Slams Saudi Arabia for Human Rights Atrocities in Yemen

UN Slams Saudi Arabia for Human Rights Atrocities in Yemen

TeleSur | – – Widespread destruction from the U.S-backed Saudi airstrikes has displaced over a million people in the region. A U.N. report on human […]

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Africa
What Africa taught the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What Africa taught the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In 1957 Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta went to Ghana in connection with its […]

Juan Cole

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