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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Even Major Oil State UAE running for Exits toward Green Energy

Even Major Oil State UAE running for Exits toward Green Energy

By Rabiya Jaffery | (Inter Press Service) | – – ABU DHABI (IPS) – Much of the world is moving away from oil for its […]

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Central Intelligence Agency
How our Intel Agencies Screwed us by Letting Sessions, Trumpies get away with Russia Scheme

How our Intel Agencies Screwed us by Letting Sessions, Trumpies get away with Russia Scheme

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller at WaPo report from a US intelligence source that […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Can Trump use the presidential pardon to thwart the Russia investigations?

Can Trump use the presidential pardon to thwart the Russia investigations?

By Austin Sarat | (The Conversation) | – – Speculation is mounting that President Donald Trump could issue a pardon to members of his family […]

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China
Don't worry, Trump:  Chinese firm provides U.S. coal miners w/ wind energy jobs

Don’t worry, Trump: Chinese firm provides U.S. coal miners w/ wind energy jobs

CGTN | (Video News Report) | – – “For years, coal and oil and gas have been Wyoming’s bedrock. 40% of U.S. coal is still […]

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Donald Trump
The U.S. Empire is 'Fraying' and 'Collapsing': Pentagon Study

The U.S. Empire is ‘Fraying’ and ‘Collapsing’: Pentagon Study

TeleSur | – – Report says Washington should consider the “post-primacy” milieu as a “wakeup call”. A study by the Pentagon, “At Our Own Peril: […]

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Donald Trump
Top 4 Lessons Trump can Learn from Napoleon in Russia

Top 4 Lessons Trump can Learn from Napoleon in Russia

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s New York Times interview can only be understood, to the extent that it can be […]

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Authoritarianism
Morocco's Rif Revolt: Only a Democratic Response is Sufficient

Morocco’s Rif Revolt: Only a Democratic Response is Sufficient

By Hsain Ilahiane | (Informed Comment) | – – Since October 2016, the Berbers (Imazighen) of the Rif, a region on the Mediterranean coast of […]

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Donald Trump
Empire of Destruction: Mosul reveals Myth of Precision Bombing

Empire of Destruction: Mosul reveals Myth of Precision Bombing

By Tom Engelhardt | (Via Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Trump hands Putin gift, cancels Support for Syrian Rebels

Trump hands Putin gift, cancels Support for Syrian Rebels

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous at WaPo report that Trump cancelled the CIA program to support […]

Juan Cole

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