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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

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Making us Less Safe:  Trump bloating Pentagon Budget, cutting Diplomacy, Science

Making us Less Safe: Trump bloating Pentagon Budget, cutting Diplomacy, Science

By Miriam Pemberton | OtherWords | – – Throwing money at the Pentagon while gutting other programs that protect Americans shouldn’t make anyone feel safer. […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Under Trump, More Coalition Strikes on Yemen in a Week than in a Year under Obama

Under Trump, More Coalition Strikes on Yemen in a Week than in a Year under Obama

TeleSur | – – More drone and airstrikes have rained on Yemen in the past week than in any year of Barack Obama’s administration, with […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli forces detain Palestinian writer over new novel

Israeli forces detain Palestinian writer over new novel

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained Palestinian writer Khalida Ghusheh on Saturday morning after raiding her home in the […]

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Close the Coal Plants:  How to Reply to Pruitt's Lie about CO2 & Climate

Close the Coal Plants: How to Reply to Pruitt’s Lie about CO2 & Climate

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Having Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency is sort of like the plot […]

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Donald Trump
Do Syria's Kurds hold the Key to the future of the Middle East?

Do Syria’s Kurds hold the Key to the future of the Middle East?

By Clemens Hoffmann and Can Cemgil | (The Conversation) | – – The Trump administration’s plans for the war against the so-called Islamic State (IS) […]

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Arab Americans
Middle East Studies Assn., joins Md. Suit to block Trump Muslim Ban

Middle East Studies Assn., joins Md. Suit to block Trump Muslim Ban

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2017 Groups Challenge Revised Muslim Ban BALTIMORE —- Civil rights and refugee groups today asked a federal court […]

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Dissent
To Counter Normalization, deflect Elite tactics to dampen Outrage

To Counter Normalization, deflect Elite tactics to dampen Outrage

By Brian Martin | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | – – The Trump administration’s policies have already triggered public outrage and massive opposition. To understand […]

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Authoritarianism
Turkey's Erdogan trolls Germany with "Fascist" Charge

Turkey’s Erdogan trolls Germany with “Fascist” Charge

By Joel Schalit | EURACTIV | – – Normally, the accusation is reversed. Erdogan undoubtedly knew that when he accused Germany on Sunday of “fascist […]

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Syria:  As 400 more Troops go in, What's Trump's Mission?

Syria: As 400 more Troops go in, What’s Trump’s Mission?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US had about 500 troops embedded with the People’s Protection Units (Kurdish acronym YPG) until […]

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