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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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What Next for Turkey After President's Power Play?

What Next for Turkey After President’s Power Play?

By Efe Kerem Sozer | (GlobalVoices.org) | – – Ahmet Davutoglu was disliked by many in Turkey. [Even after] he step[pped] down as Turkey's Prime […]

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Can Iran sue the US for Coup & supporting Saddam in Iran-Iraq War?

Can Iran sue the US for Coup & supporting Saddam in Iran-Iraq War?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iranian members of parliament have approved the details of a bill that insists US compensate Iran […]

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Middle East – The Mother of All Humanitarian Crises

Middle East – The Mother of All Humanitarian Crises

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, May 16 2016 (IPS) – When, in March 2015, delegates from the Middle East […]

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Colonialism
Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot

Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot

By Akil N. Awan | ( History Today) | – – How an agreement signed in 1916 became shorthand for western treachery, greed and the […]

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Israel/ Palestine
PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”

PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”

By Saed Bannoura | PCBS/ IMEMC | – – Excerpted for IC This is a special statistical bulletin by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics […]

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British PM Cameron's tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor

British PM Cameron’s tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – When Donald Trump announced his monstrous and yet daffy plan to exlude Muslims from the United […]

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African-Americans
Trump's Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela

Trump’s Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government […]

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Arab Spring
The Biggest threat to the Mideast isn't ISIL, it's bad, Corrupt Governance

The Biggest threat to the Mideast isn’t ISIL, it’s bad, Corrupt Governance

By Marwan Muasher | (Project Syndicate) | – – WASHINGTON, DC – A recent survey of 100 Arab thought leaders conducted by the Carnegie Endowment […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Nakba (Catastrophe)!  Where did all the Palestinians Go?

Nakba (Catastrophe)! Where did all the Palestinians Go?

AJ+ | (Video report) | – – “In 1948, around 80% of Palestinians were forced out of their homes during the creation of Israel. That […]

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