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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

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Energy
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Why the Energy-Industrial Elite Has It In for the Planet

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Why the Energy-Industrial Elite Has It In for the Planet

If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet –…

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam 16

Omar Khayyam 16

Before time ever was, You fashioned the divine handiwork of heaven and hell– out of compassion and rage. Your banquet is in heaven, and I […]

Juan Cole

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Hoekstra Blames Everyone but Himself for the Deficits He Voted for

Hoekstra Blames Everyone but Himself for the Deficits He Voted for

It is hard to decide what is the most despicable thing about senatorial Republican hopeful Pete Hoekstra’s Superbowl ad attacking rival Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door

Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning…

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
How an Israeli Strike on Iran could radically weaken Israel

How an Israeli Strike on Iran could radically weaken Israel

Some colleagues on an email list got me thinking about the worst case scenario of an Israeli air strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, so […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Cole Spanish interviews on Arab Spring in Costa Rica Press

Cole Spanish interviews on Arab Spring in Costa Rica Press

My Spanish-speaking readers will enjoy these links to interviews about the Arab Spring I did last week in San Jose, Costa Rica, with the press […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam 14

Omar Khayyam 14

The idol asked the pagan, “Do you know why you started bowing down to me?” –“It was because the One who looks out through your […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria Veto and the Revenge of the BRICS

Syria Veto and the Revenge of the BRICS

Russia and China jointly cast a veto Saturday in the United Nations Security Council against an Arab League-backed resolution that would have called for President […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Lyons:  Islam, Women and the West

Lyons: Islam, Women and the West

Jonathan Lyons writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Islam, Women, and the West   This essay is adapted from my latest book, Islam […]

Juan Cole

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