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Russia Moving Military Assets To Africa After Syria Setback
By Maja Zivanovic and Jean Fernand Koena ( RFE/RL ) – Russia is reducing its military footprint in Syria and shifting some of its assets from […]
Climate Change Taking the World’s Four Legacy Empires Down:
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, […]
Irony is Dead: Netanyahu cannot Attend Auschwitz Ceremony for Fear of Arrest on ICC Warrant for War Crimes
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Poland […]
Iran’s Axis Crumbles as Hezbollah Falters and Assad Falls.
By Imran Khalid | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The dramatic sequence of events that began on October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s […]
Climate, Migration and Conflict mix to create ‘deadly’ intense Tropical Storms like Chido
By Liz Stephens, University of Reading; Dan Green, University of Bristol, and Luis Artur, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (The Conversation) – Cyclone Chido was an “intense […]
Gaza’s Afflictions: A Proem
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Empathy will never be exhausted as gaza schools and hospitals are torn asunder by pilots in fighter jets, […]
The Emerging Bitter Israeli-Turkish Rivalry in Syria
By Amin Saikal, Australian National University (The Conversation) – The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has opened a new front for geopolitical competition […]
Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza
( Human Rights Watch ) – Israeli authorities have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population […]
Syria’s New Fundamentalist Government: Women “biologically” Unsuited to Politics, Universities to be Segregated
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Obeida Arnaout, the spokesman for the Sunni fundamentalist Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS) gave an interview on […]
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