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Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity
Arab World

Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Israel launched an attack on Doha in September 2025, Arab and Muslim leaders convened an emergency summit. […]

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

10/03/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

10/03/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Iran
Leak:  Netanyahu's 2012 Iran Bomb Warning refuted by Israeli Intel

Leak: Netanyahu’s 2012 Iran Bomb Warning refuted by Israeli Intel

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) – “Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making […]

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Egypt
In Egypt, the Law itself is an Enemy of Women’s Rights

In Egypt, the Law itself is an Enemy of Women’s Rights

By Rana Allam | – CAIRO, Feb 23 2015 (IPS) – In November 2013, a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey ranked Egypt as the worst of […]

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Health
Israel denies Gaza govt floodwater allegations

Israel denies Gaza govt floodwater allegations

NB AFP has withdrawn the original story. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel on Monday rejected allegations by the government in the Gaza Strip that authorities had […]

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African-Americans
In New Gilded Age, Social Protest dominates Academy Awards Ceremony

In New Gilded Age, Social Protest dominates Academy Awards Ceremony

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – If social and economic inequality were a mine, and if America were deep in this mine with a […]

Juan Cole

Culture
Snowden Reacts as Documentary about his Leaks wins Oscar

Snowden Reacts as Documentary about his Leaks wins Oscar

By Rainey Reitman | (EFF) – CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras’ riveting documentary about Edward Snowden’s efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United […]

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Climate Change
Ten-Fold Increase in Extreme Weather events since 1975 most Threatens Poorest Countries

Ten-Fold Increase in Extreme Weather events since 1975 most Threatens Poorest Countries

Analysis by Manipadma Jena A woman watches helplessly as a flood submerges her thatched-roof home containing all her possessions on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar city […]

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Article withdrawn

NB: Israel has denied this allegation. Informed Comment is withdrawing this article, since apparently AFP is not standing behind it. IC is not on the […]

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Central Asia
Modern Silk Roads and China's Brave New World

Modern Silk Roads and China’s Brave New World

By Pepe Escobar | (Tomdispatch.com) – BEIJING — Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts, the malaise affecting the West […]

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Yemen:  Saudi backs Sunni revolution against Shiite Houthi Rebels linked to Iran

Yemen: Saudi backs Sunni revolution against Shiite Houthi Rebels linked to Iran

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Yemen Voice reports that Wahhabi Saudi Arabia has launched an all out political offensive against the Shiite Houthi […]

Juan Cole

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