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Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing
China

Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Hamdullah Baycar

Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

07/04/2025 By Daanish Faruqi

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

07/04/2025 By Arnold R. Isaacs

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UN: Saudi Bloc attempt to close Al Jazeera is attack on Freedom of Expression

UN: Saudi Bloc attempt to close Al Jazeera is attack on Freedom of Expression

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters reports that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, is “extremely concerned by […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
The Violent "American Century"

The Violent “American Century”

By John Feffer | (FPIF) | Originally published in Korea Quarterly | – – The last near-century of American dominance was extraordinarily violent. Is it […]

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Syria
Syria: as anti-ISIL Fight enters End Game, Civilian Casualties Spike

Syria: as anti-ISIL Fight enters End Game, Civilian Casualties Spike

By Roshni Majumdar | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – As US-backed Syrian rebels plow ahead in the fight to take […]

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Donald Trump
Top 5 things Trump is doing to us Worse than insulting Mika

Top 5 things Trump is doing to us Worse than insulting Mika

by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Yes, Trump’s gratuitous Twitter insult to newswoman Mika Brzezinski was horrible. But US cable news and […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Freeing Fayza: A Journey to War-Torn Iraq to Rescue a Yazidi ISIL Slave Girl

Freeing Fayza: A Journey to War-Torn Iraq to Rescue a Yazidi ISIL Slave Girl

By: Brian Glyn Williams and Christopher Natola | (Informed Comment) | – – It began with an electrifying text message from a Yazidi member of […]

Juan Cole

Children
Demand-Side Slavery, Libyan Instability and European Crime Networks

Demand-Side Slavery, Libyan Instability and European Crime Networks

Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | – – After several years in which refugees and migration have featured heavily in the Western media narrative, a […]

Neil Thompson

Afghanistan
Back to Quagmire: Beware endless US Troop Escalations in Afghanistan

Back to Quagmire: Beware endless US Troop Escalations in Afghanistan

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – We walked in a single file. Not because it was tactically sound. It wasn’t — at […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria:  Russians alarmed, Washington Befuddled, by White House threats

Syria: Russians alarmed, Washington Befuddled, by White House threats

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The unusual statement from the “White House” on Monday saying that there were indications that the […]

Juan Cole

Evolution
Turkey abandons High Tech Future by Banning Teaching of Evolution

Turkey abandons High Tech Future by Banning Teaching of Evolution

By James Williams | (The Conversation) | – – In the US there have been many attempts to expunge evolution from the school curriculm or […]

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