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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi's whitewash

Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi’s whitewash

By Ellen Wiles< | (The Conversation) | - - It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at […]

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Donald Trump
In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad

In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The “Voice of Iraq” reports that last night artillery duels broke out between Iraqi army forces […]

Juan Cole

Al-Shabab
Nearly 300 dead in Somalia Terrorist Attack (largely ignored by US TV News)

Nearly 300 dead in Somalia Terrorist Attack (largely ignored by US TV News)

TeleSur | – – “In our 10-year experience as first responders in Mogadishu, we haven’t seen anything like this,” the Aamin Ambulance service posted on […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
How Trump's Foreign Policy Mood Swings made US a Rogue State

How Trump’s Foreign Policy Mood Swings made US a Rogue State

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran […]

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Climate Change
Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico

Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico

Marc Anthony calls Trump approach to Puerto Rico disaster “tone-deaf, idiotic, callous and disrespectful”

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
SNL: Kelly Anne Conway as "It" devours Anderson Cooper

SNL: Kelly Anne Conway as “It” devours Anderson Cooper

Horrific satire on Trump’s chief obfuscator

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Bill of Rights
Under Trump, Gitmo continues to Gnaw away at tattered US Rule of Law

Under Trump, Gitmo continues to Gnaw away at tattered US Rule of Law

Extra-Judicial denial of habeas corpus or trial leaves ‘Enemy Combatants’ in Limbo

Juan Cole

Archaeology
Yes, White Supremacists, some Vikings were Muslims & Thor was Brown

Yes, White Supremacists, some Vikings were Muslims & Thor was Brown

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The archeological identification of stylized Arabic text for God (Allah) and Ali (the prophet Muhammad’s cousin […]

Juan Cole

Fossil Fuels
Oklahoma's Ominous Earthquakes: the Price of Fracking (Video)

Oklahoma’s Ominous Earthquakes: the Price of Fracking (Video)

Hydraulic Fracturing implicated in severe seismic activity and plus it releases heat-trapping gas methane

Juan Cole

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