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As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note
Authoritarianism

As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

Arnold Oliver

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the […]

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

10/02/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

10/02/2025 By The Conversation

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability

Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability

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/ Palestine
Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right

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
How Trump’s Erratic Isolationism is Helping China Rise

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 […]

Juan Cole

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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 […]

Juan Cole

Denialism
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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Israel Lobbies
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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Donald Trump
Top 5 Economic Disappointments of the Trump Regime (so far)

Top 5 Economic Disappointments of the Trump Regime (so far)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Since Trump has decided that declining to clap for him is a form of treason, and […]

Juan Cole

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