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Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity
Arab World

Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Israel launched an attack on Doha in September 2025, Arab and Muslim leaders convened an emergency summit. […]

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

10/03/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

10/03/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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5 Trump Headlines more outrageous than the "Hamilton" Tiff

5 Trump Headlines more outrageous than the “Hamilton” Tiff

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is the master of misdirection, the techniques magicians use to get you to look elsewhere […]

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No to the New Normal

No to the New Normal

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The night after the election, this long-time pacifist dreamed she shot a big white man carrying […]

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Iraq
After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?

After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The fight against the [so-called] Islamic State [group, or IS] has united Iraqis. Details of a […]

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Bill of Rights
US: Trump's Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights

US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights

Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that […]

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Republican Party
Bad Rain Falling:  Who's to Blame for our Trump Catastrophe?

Bad Rain Falling: Who’s to Blame for our Trump Catastrophe?

By Todd Gitlin | (Billmoyers.com) | – – These days are for resistance to the abomination that has befallen us; as also for decent conduct […]

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Donald Trump
Is Lt.-Gen. Flynn Right that Islam is not a Religion?

Is Lt.-Gen. Flynn Right that Islam is not a Religion?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The new National Security Adviser to incoming President Donald J. Trump, Lt.-Gen. Michael Flynn, has called […]

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Donald Trump
Which of Trump's Cabinet picks is most Racist and Islamophobic?

Which of Trump’s Cabinet picks is most Racist and Islamophobic?

TeleSur | – – The attorney general nominee has made racist statements in the past while his new national security adviser is an Islamophobe. Donald […]

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Assyrians
Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as 'Terrorist' for Speaking Jesus' Language

Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely […]

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Why Internment of Japanese Americans is an outrageous Model for registering Muslim-Americans

Why Internment of Japanese Americans is an outrageous Model for registering Muslim-Americans

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump adviser Carl Higbie told Megyn Kelly on Fox “News” that the new administration wanted to […]

Juan Cole

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