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Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing
China

Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Hamdullah Baycar

Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

07/04/2025 By Daanish Faruqi

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

07/04/2025 By Arnold R. Isaacs

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Seven members of Israeli ‘terror cell’ indicted for dozens of attacks on Palestinian civilians & property

Seven members of Israeli ‘terror cell’ indicted for dozens of attacks on Palestinian civilians & property

By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC) | – – Updated. On Monday, an Israeli court indicted seven Israelis, including two sons of a leading rabbi, a […]

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Republican Party
Boehner: Ted Cruz is Lucifer,  most miserable SOB I've worked with

Boehner: Ted Cruz is Lucifer, most miserable SOB I’ve worked with

New York Daily News | (Video News Report) Ada Statler-Throckmorton of The Stanford Daily reported: “When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made […]

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Fossil Fuels
The Collapse of the Old Oil Order

The Collapse of the Old Oil Order

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Sunday, April 17th was the designated moment.  The world’s leading oil producers were expected to […]

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Trump's Foreign Policy is just GOP Boilerplate, only more Confused

Trump’s Foreign Policy is just GOP Boilerplate, only more Confused

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump tried his hand at foreign policy on Wednesday, and the results weren’t any prettier […]

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censorship
Egypt arrests Hundreds to Stop Protest, including Journalists, Lawyers

Egypt arrests Hundreds to Stop Protest, including Journalists, Lawyers

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Egyptian security forces arrested at least 382 people in the days leading up to and during the […]

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Arms Sales
Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War.

Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War.

By Rebecca Green | ( Otherwords.org) | – – Military contractors have shelled out over $1 million to the 2016 presidential candidates — including over […]

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War
Globally, deaths from explosive weapons rise 54%, & 3/4s are Civilians

Globally, deaths from explosive weapons rise 54%, & 3/4s are Civilians

TeleSur | – – Civilian casualties from explosive weapons rose by 54 percent in 2015 compared to 2011. More than three-quarters of those harmed by […]

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Authoritarianism
Trump culture: threat, fear and the tightening of the American mind

Trump culture: threat, fear and the tightening of the American mind

By Michele Gelfand and Joshua Conrad Jackson | (The Conversation) | – – For the past 10 months, Donald Trump has been a political enigma. […]

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Bernie Sanders
Winning in Losing:  How Sanders pushed Clinton to the Left

Winning in Losing: How Sanders pushed Clinton to the Left

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Bernie Sanders’ path to the nomination as the Democratic Party standard bearer in 2016 was all […]

Juan Cole

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