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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History
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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]

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How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

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Authoritarianism
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Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israel, Yemen Authorities Targeting Media Workers Niku Jafarnia   Bahrain and Yemen Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division ( Human Rights Watch ) – A […]

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The “Defense” Department has always been about War

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

By Eric Ross ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing […]

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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

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Iran
“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

Stanza 15 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám has for its theme a denial of the afterlife and resurrection. XV. […]

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Israel/ Palestine
The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to Canadian officials about visas and study permits for Palestinian […]

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The Middle East faces Climate Breakdown, but its Media ignores it

The Middle East faces Climate Breakdown, but its Media ignores it

By Marianna Poberezhskaya, Nottingham Trent University; Imad El-Anis, Nottingham Trent University, and Marwa Mustafa, Nottingham Trent University (The Conversation) – The Middle East is experiencing […]

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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

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