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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

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 The new Jewish exodus: Emigrating Israelis replaced by European Jewry

The new Jewish exodus: Emigrating Israelis replaced by European Jewry

By Naava Mashiah via Your Middle East So much ink has been spilled over the past month during the latest eruption of violence between Israel […]

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Iraq
Veils, Gloves and Violence: New Extremist Rules See Women Disappear From Mosul’s Streets

Veils, Gloves and Violence: New Extremist Rules See Women Disappear From Mosul’s Streets

By Nawzat Shamdeen | Mosul | via Niqash.org Extremists are forcing Mosul’s women to wear full facial veils. Mosul was always a conservative city when […]

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Africa
Reading Africa:  How exciting Literature takes us beyond the Dreary Headlines

Reading Africa: How exciting Literature takes us beyond the Dreary Headlines

By Shaun Randol There is not one positive news story on the front page. The two news organizations might as well tack up a single […]

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Egypt
5 Ironies of US Reaction to Egypt/UAE Bombing of Libya

5 Ironies of US Reaction to Egypt/UAE Bombing of Libya

The diplomatic angst issuing from Washington around the United Arab Emirates and Egypt bombing of weapons depots belonging to the Qatar-backed fundamentalist militia of Misrata […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Poll:  Palestinians of Gaza just like Americans:  Want Peace, hate "ISIS" and refuse to Give up their Guns

Poll: Palestinians of Gaza just like Americans: Want Peace, hate “ISIS” and refuse to Give up their Guns

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An overwhelming majority of Gaza residents support a long-term truce with Israel and oppose the disarmament of the Palestinian resistance, a poll […]

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Immigration
Border Police Militarization and the Immigrant Children

Border Police Militarization and the Immigrant Children

By Aviva Chomsky via Tomdispatch.com Call it irony or call it a nightmare, but the “crisis” of Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, which […]

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BDS Occupied Territories
Victim of McCarthy-Era Witch Hunt calls on U-Illinois not to Fire Critic of Israeli Policies

Victim of McCarthy-Era Witch Hunt calls on U-Illinois not to Fire Critic of Israeli Policies

Note by Juan Cole: In the early 1950s, under the influence of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), a national witch hunt was conducted for leftists. McCarthy […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Can the Kabbalah teach us to Repair Climate Change?

Can the Kabbalah teach us to Repair Climate Change?

By Alexandra Piacenza How can Kabbalah, the system of mystical interpretation of Jewish scripture with roots in the 13th century, have a bearing on modern-day […]

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Iraq
Iraq:  Another Town besieged by IS:  Is Amerli the next Sinjar?

Iraq: Another Town besieged by IS: Is Amerli the next Sinjar?

By Ahmad Mohammed | Kirkuk | Niqash.org Demonstrators call on the government to help the besieged town of Amerli. In Salahaddin, a drama of historic […]

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