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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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Questioning US Arms Sales, impunity for Saudi Arabia

Questioning US Arms Sales, impunity for Saudi Arabia

By Carlyn Meyer | (Informed Comment) | – – The bi-partisan failure to review the nature and benefit of the US-Saudi relationship has been a […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel releases Jerusalem journalist after she served 6-months for Facebook post

Israel releases Jerusalem journalist after she served 6-months for Facebook post

By Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities released Palestinian journalist Samah Dweik on Monday, after she served nearly six months […]

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Colonialism
Colonial Slow Genocide:  Palestinian Leader Abbas asks Britain for “Balfour” Apology

Colonial Slow Genocide: Palestinian Leader Abbas asks Britain for “Balfour” Apology

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, is asking Britain for an apology for its having in 1917 […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
UN Calls Out Saudi Arabia for Killing Yemeni Women and Children

UN Calls Out Saudi Arabia for Killing Yemeni Women and Children

By TeleSur | – – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanded all parties fighting in Yemen “fully respect their obligations under international humanitarian law.” In a […]

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Iraq
Iraq’s Growth Industry: Free-Lance Civilian Bomb Disposal

Iraq’s Growth Industry: Free-Lance Civilian Bomb Disposal

By Kamal al-Ayash | Ramadi | ( Niqash.org) | – – Locals are struggling to get rid of the explosive booby-traps the Islamic State left […]

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Arms Sales
America's New Reality:  Mad Bombers, Merchants of Death, & Lawmaking Harlots

America’s New Reality: Mad Bombers, Merchants of Death, & Lawmaking Harlots

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, That […]

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Why the Boeing & Airbus Sales to Iran are a Big Effing Deal

Why the Boeing & Airbus Sales to Iran are a Big Effing Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the real power center for […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Montazeri recording surfaces condemning mass killings that Haunt Iran’s Revolution

Montazeri recording surfaces condemning mass killings that Haunt Iran’s Revolution

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in line to become Iran’s supreme leader, has come back […]

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Children
Stopping the War on Children

Stopping the War on Children

Kevin Watkins | ( Project Syndicate ) | – – On the twentieth anniversary of the Machel report, the international community must draw a line […]

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