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Trump’s Last Stand: Demands for Hormuz Task Force fall on Deaf Ears
Donald Trump

Trump’s Last Stand: Demands for Hormuz Task Force fall on Deaf Ears

Neil Thompson

Nations outside the US signal their scepticism about White House plans for an international naval operation to re-open the Strait of Hormuz

“Was never deep in anything but Wine:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:41

“Was never deep in anything but Wine:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:41

03/19/2026 By Juan Cole

The Democratic Nat’l Committee’s Kneejerk Backing of Israel Is Political and Moral Failure

The Democratic Nat’l Committee’s Kneejerk Backing of Israel Is Political and Moral Failure

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Unprecedented CO2 Crimes:   Next time, Let’s Call it “Cyclone ExxonMobil”

Unprecedented CO2 Crimes: Next time, Let’s Call it “Cyclone ExxonMobil”

By David Ray Griffin, author of “Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis?” (Clarity Press, 2015). | – Cyclone Pam, which this past week caused […]

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Barack Obama
Obama might stop vetoing UNSC Resolutions re: Israel after Netanyahu rejected Palestinian state

Obama might stop vetoing UNSC Resolutions re: Israel after Netanyahu rejected Palestinian state

RT | – The US is “evaluating” its policy towards Israel in the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election and campaign statements. This could involve passing […]

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International Criminal Court
Will Palestine now take Israel's Netanyahu to Int'l Criminal Court for War Crimes?

Will Palestine now take Israel’s Netanyahu to Int’l Criminal Court for War Crimes?

By Kate Shuttleworth and Joe Dyke | JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (IRIN) – Shortly before Israel’s elections on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that as long as […]

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Climate Change
10 Foot Sea Level Rise Concern:  Warm Water Reaching Antarctic Fast-Thinning Glacier

10 Foot Sea Level Rise Concern: Warm Water Reaching Antarctic Fast-Thinning Glacier

Jackson School of Geoscience News | University of Texas, Austin | – Excerpt: Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) […]

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Bill of Rights
Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq's Response

Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq’s Response

Human Rights Watch | (New York) – Militias, volunteer fighters, and Iraqi security forces engaged in deliberate destruction of civilian property after these forces, following […]

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Tom Friedman & funding ISIL:   Israel/Iran Derangement Syndrome

Tom Friedman & funding ISIL: Israel/Iran Derangement Syndrome

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Being a liberal Zionist was always a tough thing to pull off, but it is becoming increasingly just […]

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Democracy
Mideast Reacts with Horror:  "Israel has elected Extremism and Racism"

Mideast Reacts with Horror: “Israel has elected Extremism and Racism”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Observers in the Arab press who contemplated the victory of far right Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu in the […]

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Syria
Growing Up in Syria: Children Images and War

Growing Up in Syria: Children Images and War

Asaad Al-Saleh | (Informed Comment) When I wrote my book, “Voices of the Arab Spring” (Columbia UP, 2015), I did not feature testimonials by children. […]

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