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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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Coal
Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

By Joshua Sokol | (Mosaic) | – – From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury seeped into the clear waters of Minamata Bay, […]

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African-Americans
Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart's Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)

Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart’s Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)

Bannon sent articles to white extremist leaders for line edits

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Donald Trump
Was Ayatollah Khamenei right about Washington? Trump Reneges

Was Ayatollah Khamenei right about Washington? Trump Reneges

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump appears likely to attempt to derail the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]

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Climate Change
Disrupting Climate Change

Disrupting Climate Change

By Jules Kortenhorst | (Project Syndicate) | – – Despite a surge of apocalyptic weather and fears of runaway climate change, there is still time […]

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Iraq
Iraq: How Saddam Hussein’s Ghost haunts Kurdish Referendum

Iraq: How Saddam Hussein’s Ghost haunts Kurdish Referendum

Mustafa Habib | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | – – Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein tried to exterminate the Kurds in Iraq. Now Iraqis angry about […]

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journalism
Getting the Story: Combat Journalists and the Fixers they Depend On

Getting the Story: Combat Journalists and the Fixers they Depend On

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – We were already roaring down the road when the young man called to me over his shoulder. […]

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Colonialism
Colonial Legacy: When Dutch ‘Policing’ Op tried to bring down Indonesian Republic

Colonial Legacy: When Dutch ‘Policing’ Op tried to bring down Indonesian Republic

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | – – (This essay irst appeared in Dutch in De Groene Amsterdammer) Inexplicable sounds entered our internment camp […]

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Colonialism
How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico

How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico

By Jill Richardson | (Otherwords.org) | – – Wanting federal aid in a natural disaster isn’t wanting “everything done for you.” It’s what we should […]

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Israel
Iran and Turkey tag team Iraqi Kurds over Secession

Iran and Turkey tag team Iraqi Kurds over Secession

TeleSur | – – “The only beneficiaries are the Zionist regime and the U.S.,” Ayatollah Khamenei said. Warning against alleged foreign plots, the leaders of […]

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