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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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The Break-Up of America: Donald Trump and the Fourth Great Shattering

The Break-Up of America: Donald Trump and the Fourth Great Shattering

By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – When the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published his bestseller The Disuniting of America in 1991, […]

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Climate Change
Puerto Ricans Must Come First, Not Wall Street Vultures

Puerto Ricans Must Come First, Not Wall Street Vultures

By Maria Beri | (Inequality.org) | – – Every dollar going to one of the hedge funds that have bought up much of the island’s […]

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Game over for Coal: Solar Power costs to plummet by 60% in coming Years

Game over for Coal: Solar Power costs to plummet by 60% in coming Years

TeleSur | – – “It’s not always the best strategy to try to protect your industry and have high prices in the long term” claims […]

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Fading ISIL in Syria lashes out, kills 128 in reprisals as Gov't takes back Town

Fading ISIL in Syria lashes out, kills 128 in reprisals as Gov’t takes back Town

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The so-called Islamic State group of Syria and Iraq, which locals call Daesh (in US, it […]

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Africa
Sen. Lindsey Graham surprised at US Troops in Niger?  He could have read Nick Turse

Sen. Lindsey Graham surprised at US Troops in Niger? He could have read Nick Turse

By Jon Queally, staff writer. | ( Commondreams.org) ” – – Graham Should Read More Nick Turse, TomDispatch, and Common Dreams. What U.S. Senators Don’t […]

Juan Cole

GCC
Kuwait, Terrified of Gulf Depression, Frantically Mediating Saudi-Qatar Crisis

Kuwait, Terrified of Gulf Depression, Frantically Mediating Saudi-Qatar Crisis

Nicolai Due-Gundersen | (The Conversation) | – – A blockade against Qatar by its Gulf neighbours is now in its fifth month. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, […]

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Donald Trump
Iraqi PM Rebukes Tillerson on Popular Mobilization Militia

Iraqi PM Rebukes Tillerson on Popular Mobilization Militia

TeleSur | – – “Popular Mobilisation fighters should be encouraged because they will be the hope of country and the region,” Abadi said. Iraqi Prime […]

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Puerto Rico
The economic case for solarizing Puerto Rico's power grid (Video)

The economic case for solarizing Puerto Rico’s power grid (Video)

Jon LaPook | (CBS This Morning Video Interview) | – –

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Tillerson tells Iraqi Shiite Militias to "go home."  Sad.

Tillerson tells Iraqi Shiite Militias to “go home.” Sad.

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump-style ignorance and faux pas are spreading, with Tillerson making missteps on Iraq. Secretary of State […]

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