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Saudi Arabia in Modern History
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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

08/14/2025 By Global Voices

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

08/14/2025 By The Conversation

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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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