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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

11/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Trump’s Nominee for Ambassador to Israel is an End Times Fanatic and Palestine Denialist; What could Go Wrong?

Trump’s Nominee for Ambassador to Israel is an End Times Fanatic and Palestine Denialist; What could Go Wrong?

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Trump’s second-term nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel is former Arkansas Governor, Rev. Mike Huckabee. He is […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Syria
Syrians, in a Triumph of Hope, turn the Page on the Horrors of Assad

Syrians, in a Triumph of Hope, turn the Page on the Horrors of Assad

By Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University Millions of Syrians are feeling hope for the first time in years. The authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad fell on […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Return of War to the Home Front: Don’t Look for Restraint from Donald Trump’s Military

The Return of War to the Home Front: Don’t Look for Restraint from Donald Trump’s Military

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or “broken heart syndrome” — […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Alawites
Shiite Latakia Falls to new Syrian Government, as Sheikhs call for Reconciliation and Recruits are Pardoned

Shiite Latakia Falls to new Syrian Government, as Sheikhs call for Reconciliation and Recruits are Pardoned

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, the Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham/ HTS) guerrilla forces extended their rule to Latakia, Syria’s major port, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The world owes Palestine this much – please stop censoring Palestinian Voices

The world owes Palestine this much – please stop censoring Palestinian Voices

( Middle East Monitor ) – Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a different […]

Ramzy Baroud

Hayat Tahrir
Abu Mohammed al-Golani may become the face of post-Assad Syria – but who is he and why does he have $10M US bounty on his head?

Abu Mohammed al-Golani may become the face of post-Assad Syria – but who is he and why does he have $10M US bounty on his head?

By Sara Harmouch, American University (The Conversation) – The fall of President Bashar al-Assad has left a critical question: After a half-century of brutal dynastic […]

The Conversation

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Assad’s Fall is a Reminder that Russia is not a Global power but a Regional One

Assad’s Fall is a Reminder that Russia is not a Global power but a Regional One

Trabzon, Turkey (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When former U.S. President Barack Obama referred to Russia as a “regional power” at the 2014 Nuclear […]

Hamdullah Baycar

Syria
The sectarian Risk: Turkiye’s Syrian Mission

The sectarian Risk: Turkiye’s Syrian Mission

by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria, though it […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Is Piers Morgan normalizing Israel’s Genocide?

Is Piers Morgan normalizing Israel’s Genocide?

( Counterpunch ) – Since October 7, 2023, white settler propaganda has ramped up through two insidious tactics targeting western audiences. The first rationalizes Israel’s […]

Yoav Litvin

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