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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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Climate Change Terror as Deserts Bury 2/3s of African Lands

Climate Change Terror as Deserts Bury 2/3s of African Lands

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, (IPS) – Two-thirds of the African continent is already desert or dry-lands. But while […]

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ISIL fighter number falls to 15,000 as Manbij capture Cuts off Route to Europe

ISIL fighter number falls to 15,000 as Manbij capture Cuts off Route to Europe

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | AP is reporting that Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland maintains that the number of ISIL fighters in Syria and […]

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Monsters to Destroy:  Top 7 Reasons the US could not have forestalled Syrian Civil War

Monsters to Destroy: Top 7 Reasons the US could not have forestalled Syrian Civil War

by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The interventionist temptation, muted since the Iraq imbroglio, is now returning. Sec. Clinton’s team are already […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
If the Military had Permission to Speak Freely:  They might rescue us from the Politicians' Forever War

If the Military had Permission to Speak Freely: They might rescue us from the Politicians’ Forever War

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The United States is now engaged in perpetual war with victory nowhere in sight.  Iraq […]

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Plutocracy
How labor's decline opened door to billionaire Trump as 'savior' of American workers

How labor’s decline opened door to billionaire Trump as ‘savior’ of American workers

By Raymond Hogler | (The Conversation) | – – Out of the economic maelstrom of the last decade, Donald Trump has emerged as the improbable, […]

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No, Obama did not found ISIL, Mr. Trump: That was the GOP

No, Obama did not found ISIL, Mr. Trump: That was the GOP

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump in his daily free association exercise accused President Obama of creating Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) in […]

Juan Cole

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Trump threatens Sec. Clinton with Gun Nuts, imitates Tinpot 3rd World Regimes

Trump threatens Sec. Clinton with Gun Nuts, imitates Tinpot 3rd World Regimes

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump said Tuesday there was nothing that his supporters could do if Hillary Clinton won […]

Juan Cole

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A Sucker is born Every Minute:  Our Election From Hell

A Sucker is born Every Minute: Our Election From Hell

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Yep, it finally happened. In early May, after a long, long run, the elephants of […]

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Africa
The Economic Crisis of Greying World:  30 Countries have more Elderly than Children

The Economic Crisis of Greying World: 30 Countries have more Elderly than Children

By Joseph Chamie | (Inter Press Service) | – – NEW YORK (IPS) – It first happened in Italy in 1995. Five years later it […]

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