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Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran
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Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran

Juan Cole

How the Ghost of Renee Nicole Good Haunts Trump’s Response to Iran’s Protests

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

02/03/2026 By Yale Climate Connections

Iran regime: A Plato’s Republic thought experiment gone too far?

Iran regime: A Plato’s Republic thought experiment gone too far?

02/03/2026 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Climate Breakdown:  Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency, and rights but failed to prevent continued violence and atrocities, […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – How plague came to Europe around 1347 has long been debated by historians. Scientists have located the origin of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

  by Dr Mohammad Yousef ( Middle East Monitor ) – New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he would instruct the NYPD […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

( Code Pink ) – Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Climate Crisis
Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Meteorological Organization has issued its annual report on the 22 countries of the Arab world, covering last year, […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

By John Strawson, University of East London (The Conversation) – The interesting thing about Benjamin Netanyahu’s call on Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, to pardon him […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary

U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary

By Eric Ross In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of […]

Tomdispatch

European Union
Several Countries to Boycott Eurovision Singing Contest over Israeli Participation

Several Countries to Boycott Eurovision Singing Contest over Israeli Participation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Broadcasting Union declined o have a vote on whether Israel should be allowed to participate in next year’s […]

Juan Cole

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