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Misreading and Misrepresenting Iran
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Misreading and Misrepresenting Iran

Ali Abootalebi

Eau Clare, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On Friday, June 13th, Israel launched attacks on Iranian nuclear, military, and civilian targets, just days […]

US Sanctions on ICC Judges Highlight Pursuit of Selective Justice

US Sanctions on ICC Judges Highlight Pursuit of Selective Justice

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Feeding the Warfare State: We Lose, the Weapons Makers Win

Feeding the Warfare State: We Lose, the Weapons Makers Win

07/02/2025 By William D. Hartung

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Arms Sales
10,000 Deaths Later Germany Bars Arms Sales to Yemen Attackers

10,000 Deaths Later Germany Bars Arms Sales to Yemen Attackers

TeleSur | – – Only in the third financial quarter of 2017 German arms sale to Saudi Arabia accounted for US$550 million. Spokesperson for German […]

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Donald Trump
Syria: Turkey Begins Military Operation against US-Allied Kurds in Afrin

Syria: Turkey Begins Military Operation against US-Allied Kurds in Afrin

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters reports that on Friday, Turkey began cross-border shelling of the Kurdish-majority Afrin canton in northern […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
A Mountain Kingdom? Iraqi leaders unconcerned About New PKK ‘Region’

A Mountain Kingdom? Iraqi leaders unconcerned About New PKK ‘Region’

Special Correspondent | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | – – Late last month the Kurdistan Worker’s Party – an organization some describe as terrorist – declared […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
US to Renew Internet Surveillance Program Exposed by Snowden

US to Renew Internet Surveillance Program Exposed by Snowden

TeleSur | – – The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to renew a warrantless internet surveillance program, disregarding civil liberties advocates. In a 65-34 vote the […]

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African-Americans
With Marijuana Legal, L.A. Makes Amends for damage of the War on Drugs

With Marijuana Legal, L.A. Makes Amends for damage of the War on Drugs

By Kevon Paynter | ( Yes! Magazine ) | – – The city creates a “social equity” tier of applications who will receive priority for […]

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Russia accuses US of destabilizing Syria with Kurdish-Turkish Clash

Russia accuses US of destabilizing Syria with Kurdish-Turkish Clash

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s angry threat to invade a Syrian Kurdish canton in response to the […]

Juan Cole

Djibouti
Turkey to deploy 60,000 soldiers in bases abroad, including in Qatar

Turkey to deploy 60,000 soldiers in bases abroad, including in Qatar

Middle East Monitor |- – 60,000 armed Turkish soldiers will be deployed across four military bases abroad in accordance with a new 2022 plan, The […]

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White Supremacists
Radical White Terrorists committed Most 2017 Killings in US

Radical White Terrorists committed Most 2017 Killings in US

TeleSur | – – A report by the Anti-Defamation League shows that in 2017 the majority of murders in the U.S. were committed by right-wing, […]

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North Korea
A Second Korean War, this Time with Nukes?

A Second Korean War, this Time with Nukes?

( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or […]

Rajan Menon

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