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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Washington Post | (Video Clip) | – – “Jennie Willoughby is one of two ex-wives of White House aide, Rob Porter alleging emotional and physical […]

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US troops and the Kurdish and Arab fighters among whom they are embedded came under a […]

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Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right

By Harry Blain | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes […]

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China
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How Trump’s Erratic Isolationism is Helping China Rise

By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In his State of the Union address, Donald Trump warned grimly of “rivals like China and […]

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Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive

Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Arabic daily Elaph reports that hundreds of Kurds who came into Afrin from other Kurdish […]

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Even conservatives are resisting Trump’s radical assault on the environment

Even conservatives are resisting Trump’s radical assault on the environment

By Tan Copsey | (ChinaDialogue) | – – President Trump has been in power for just over a year and has enjoyed few policy successes. […]

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Colonialism
British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage

British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage

By Jonathan Westaway | The Conversation | – – In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film […]

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Displaced and Refugees
UN: 47,000 displaced By Saudi-led war on Yemen since December

UN: 47,000 displaced By Saudi-led war on Yemen since December

Middle East Monitor | – – Up to 47,000 Yemenis have been displaced to Aden as a result of rising military tensions in Taiz and […]

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Big Legal Win for Kansas Schoolteacher barred from Boycotting Israel

Big Legal Win for Kansas Schoolteacher barred from Boycotting Israel

Media with Conscience News | – – The US state recently passed a law requiring all state contractors to pledge they do not support a […]

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