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

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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 Kicked Off Twitter And Facebook, so-called "Islamic State" Terror Group Finds New Tools

Kicked Off Twitter And Facebook, so-called “Islamic State” Terror Group Finds New Tools

By Glenn Kates via RFE/RL The Islamic State has made good use of social networks in spreading its propaganda. Thousands of social-media users were unwittingly […]

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al-Qaeda
Has the War on Terror Failed?

Has the War on Terror Failed?

AJ+ “Has the West’s global “War on Terror” failed? Thirteen years of U.S. counter-terrorism policies have opened up a Pandora’s box of questions – both […]

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Iraq:  Bombs & Bullets vs. Political Process

Iraq: Bombs & Bullets vs. Political Process

By Juan Cole A series of bombings and shootings left some 35 dead in Iraq on Saturday, following on a massacre of 68 worshipers Friday […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Sean Hannity Pwned by Patricia Bynes when he tries to "Educate" Her

Sean Hannity Pwned by Patricia Bynes when he tries to “Educate” Her

The Young Turks: “A Ferguson, Mo. official was having none of Fox News host Sean Hannity’s attempt to “educate” her on police brutality Wednesday night. […]

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African-Americans
It's not Fergustan:  Ferguson is what America Looks Like

It’s not Fergustan: Ferguson is what America Looks Like

AJ+ People around the world have watched Ferguson, Missouri in disbelief that what they’re seeing is taking place in the United States. But Ferguson is […]

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Israel
Gaza needs UN Peacekeepers, Now!  How to Break the Israel/Palestine Stalemate

Gaza needs UN Peacekeepers, Now! How to Break the Israel/Palestine Stalemate

By John V. Whitbeck After the breakdown in the six-day “pause” to permit negotiations on a long-term Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire and the resumption of Israel’s onslaught […]

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Barack Obama
Obama's budding Cambodia Policy in Syria

Obama’s budding Cambodia Policy in Syria

By Juan Cole Former British ambassador to the United States Sir Christoher Meyer is advocating that the US and Western Europe stop advocating the overthrow […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Failed US War on Terror resulted from bizarre search for Moderate Jihadis

Failed US War on Terror resulted from bizarre search for Moderate Jihadis

By Patrick Cockburn via Tomdispatch.com [This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn’s new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni […]

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Iran
Can You pass the Iran Quiz?

Can You pass the Iran Quiz?

By Jeffrey Rudolph What can possibly justify the relentless U.S. political and economic aggression against Iran? It cannot be argued that Iran is an aggressive […]

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