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The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned
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The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned

Juan Cole

The bad guys included Saudi Arabia and the entire Arab bloc, along with China, India, and other nations still in thrall to Big Carbon

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West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

11/23/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Why Israeli Soldiers and their Leaders are increasingly at Risk of Arrest Overseas

Why Israeli Soldiers and their Leaders are increasingly at Risk of Arrest Overseas

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Türkiye reaches 18.7 GW Photovoltaic Capacity, shows how Solar can meet Growing Air Conditioning demand

Türkiye reaches 18.7 GW Photovoltaic Capacity, shows how Solar can meet Growing Air Conditioning demand

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the paradoxes of human-made climate change is that as we heat up the planet by burning gasoline, coal […]

Juan Cole

Syria
The Turkish Role in Assad's Downfall: By supporting the rebels who overthrew the Syrian leader has Ankara bitten off more than it can chew?

The Turkish Role in Assad’s Downfall: By supporting the rebels who overthrew the Syrian leader has Ankara bitten off more than it can chew?

By Philip Balboni | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – After tenaciously holding on to power for more than a decade of war, the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Kurds
The self-governing Kurdish northeast of Syria comes under attack, with Country in Flux

The self-governing Kurdish northeast of Syria comes under attack, with Country in Flux

By Pinar Dinc, Lund University (The Conversation) – After more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 days to […]

The Conversation

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With HTS rule of Syria and Taliban in Afghanistan, did the U.S. lose the "War on Terror"?

With HTS rule of Syria and Taliban in Afghanistan, did the U.S. lose the “War on Terror”?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US policy in the Middle East is a dinosaur-like holdover from two eras, the Cold War and the “Global War […]

Juan Cole

Hizbullah
How Israel’s regional War contributed to the Fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria

How Israel’s regional War contributed to the Fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria

By Daniel L. Douek, McGill University (The Conversation) – When Hamas strategist Yahya Sinwar ordered the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter: Time to Boycott the US?

Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter: Time to Boycott the US?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He’s the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and downright nasty. Not only that, […]

John Feffer

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UN Demands immediate Gaza Ceasefire as Israel’s Cabinet of Horrors Continues – 53 Killed, as 65K lack Food, Water, Medicine

UN Demands immediate Gaza Ceasefire as Israel’s Cabinet of Horrors Continues – 53 Killed, as 65K lack Food, Water, Medicine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the Israeli military killed 53 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli Air […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iranian Leader Blames Assad’s Downfall On U.S., Israel, And Turkey

Iranian Leader Blames Assad’s Downfall On U.S., Israel, And Turkey

( RFE/ RL ) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in his first public comments since Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ousted, accused the United […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Hamas – Hemmed in and Isolated – finds itself with few Options for the Day after the Gaza War

Hamas – Hemmed in and Isolated – finds itself with few Options for the Day after the Gaza War

By Mkhaimar Abusada, Northwestern University (The Conversation) – In early December 2024, Hamas announced a major concession: It was prepared to cede future governance of […]

The Conversation

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