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Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%
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Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But […]

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

08/12/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

08/12/2025 By The Conversation

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Syria, Russia push to take East Aleppo pocket as airstrikes kill 66, wound 200

Syria, Russia push to take East Aleppo pocket as airstrikes kill 66, wound 200

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Only a week after seeming to agree to a ceasefire, Russia and the Syrian regime in […]

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Copts
Egypt: New Church Law Discriminates Against Christians

Egypt: New Church Law Discriminates Against Christians

By Human Rights Watch | – – Authorities Fail to Prevent, Punish Violent Attacks (Tunis) – A long-awaited new law maintains restrictions over the construction […]

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Corruption
Mainstream Media focusing on Political Infotainment, not Policy

Mainstream Media focusing on Political Infotainment, not Policy

By Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump is one of those stupid guys who thinks […]

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Iraq
ISIL used Chem on US Troops in Iraq; but this time US Gov't isn't talking WMD

ISIL used Chem on US Troops in Iraq; but this time US Gov’t isn’t talking WMD

By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | – – The group known as Islamic State (IS) reportedly used a sulpur-mustard gas against US troops in […]

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Acidification of Oceans
The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn't yet Left Africa

The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu: I hope Obama won’t seek to establish a Palestinian state

Netanyahu: I hope Obama won’t seek to establish a Palestinian state

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he “hoped” US President Barack Obama would not seek […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Trump’s Pro-ISIS Foreign Policy

Trump’s Pro-ISIS Foreign Policy

By Fawaz A. Gerges | ( Project Syndicate ) | – – LONDON – Donald Trump’s recent claim that his opponent in the US presidential […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Feds: We can read all your email, and you'll never know

Feds: We can read all your email, and you’ll never know

By Clark D. Cunningham | (The Conversation) | – – Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo […]

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Number of US Troops in Iraq Heading toward 6,000

Number of US Troops in Iraq Heading toward 6,000

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US plans to send another 500 troops to Iraq to help with the massive Mosul […]

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