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Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel
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Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel

Juan Cole

Al-Sharaa and his delegation had as their primary goal the lifting of US Caesar Act sanctions, which have crippled Syria’s reconstruction

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The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

11/11/2025 By Global Voices

A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian King:  A new Statue in Tehran

A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian King: A new Statue in Tehran

11/11/2025 By The Conversation

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America's First Communal Muslim Funeral: Muhammad Ali

America’s First Communal Muslim Funeral: Muhammad Ali

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The funeral of Muhammad Ali, attended by a throng of 20,000, was the first national funeral […]

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Iraq
Suicide Bombers + Secret Tunnels: ISIL Tactics On Fallujah’s Front lines

Suicide Bombers + Secret Tunnels: ISIL Tactics On Fallujah’s Front lines

Mustafa Habib | | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The battle for Fallujah will be long and hard. The Islamic State has prepared for […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Besieged Syrian Town Gets First Food Aid Since 2012

Besieged Syrian Town Gets First Food Aid Since 2012

TeleSur | – – “We call for unconditional, unimpeded and sustained access to all people in need,” said a U.N. spokesperson. An international aid convoy […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel's  Continuous Implementation of Apartheid Policies in Hebron

Israel’s Continuous Implementation of Apartheid Policies in Hebron

IMEMC | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team For more than seven months, Israeli forces have kept a staircase leading to Qurtuba school and the […]

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World More violent in past Year, but Middle East drives Deterioration

World More violent in past Year, but Middle East drives Deterioration

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The 2016 Global Peace Index has been released, with the bad news that the world is […]

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Egypt
Nile Valley Water Conflict:  Can Egypt live with Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam?

Nile Valley Water Conflict: Can Egypt live with Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam?

By Dale Whittington | (The Conversation) | – – The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, under construction on the Blue Nile near the Ethiopian-Sudanese […]

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Militarization
The Iraq War isn't Over; it is waged here, in our Hospitals every Day

The Iraq War isn’t Over; it is waged here, in our Hospitals every Day

By Mark Wilkerson | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Memorial Day is over.  You had your barbeque.  Now, you can stop thinking about America’s […]

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racism
How Trump's Real and Actual Racism has Thrived

How Trump’s Real and Actual Racism has Thrived

By Todd Gitlin | ( BillMoyers.com) | – – Dana Milbank’s June 6 article in The Washington Post was aptly headlined, “Republicans finally discover that […]

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Democratic Party
Trump 'a thin-skinned racist bully':  Elizabeth Warren's Full Evisceration

Trump ‘a thin-skinned racist bully’: Elizabeth Warren’s Full Evisceration

Sen. Elizabeth Warren | (Video of American Constitution Convention Speech) | – – “Elizabeth Warren Endorses Hillary Clinton – VP Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren […]

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