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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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A Hot Wet Thousand Years and 10 Green Energy Stories to Avert it

A Hot Wet Thousand Years and 10 Green Energy Stories to Avert it

The bad news is that I’ve been reading David Archer’s The Long Thaw on climate change projections, and he thinks that the Intergovernmental Panel on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Likud Government takes Revenge on Palestinians for UNESCO Membership

Likud Government takes Revenge on Palestinians for UNESCO Membership

The Pan-Arab London daily, al-Hayat, editorializes today that President Obama’s vote against Palestine’s membership in UNESCO demonstrates that his 2009 Cairo speech was “empty words.” […]

Juan Cole

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Romney Flip-Flops on Mideast, Too: Cole in Truthdig

Romney Flip-Flops on Mideast, Too: Cole in Truthdig

My column is out in Truthdig, entitled, “Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East”. Excerpt: “The Arab revolutions of 2011 have already removed […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
UNESCO Palestine Vote Isolates US Further

UNESCO Palestine Vote Isolates US Further

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recognized Palestine as a full member on Monday setting off a crisis between the United States and […]

Juan Cole

Central Asia
Mahoney:  New Leadership in Kyrgyzstan Fateful for US Bases in Central Asia

Mahoney: New Leadership in Kyrgyzstan Fateful for US Bases in Central Asia

Jon Mahoney writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Many readers of Informed Comment will be interested in the outcome of the presidential elections […]

Juan Cole

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Syria Promises Response to Arab League Plan, Threatens 'Volcano' if Attacked

Syria Promises Response to Arab League Plan, Threatens ‘Volcano’ if Attacked

Syria said it would reply Monday to the proposal of the Arab League for ending the violence in that country. Aljazera has video. On Sunday, […]

Juan Cole

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Ganann: Police raids and violence against activists are Un-American

Ganann: Police raids and violence against activists are Un-American

Gerald Ganann writes in a guest column for Informed Comment I opened my local newspaper one morning recently to find that the Occupy movement had […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Kabul Bombing of US Bus Leaves 13 Dead

Kabul Bombing of US Bus Leaves 13 Dead

The Taliban claimed credit for a bombing of a bus in Kabul, which killed 13 US security personnel (apparently 5 US troops and 8 security […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Why a No-Fly Zone won’t Work in Syria

Why a No-Fly Zone won’t Work in Syria

Syrian troops fired into peaceful demonstrations in Hama and Homs on Friday. Repression of protests yesterday is estimated to have cost 40 lives. The BBC […]

Juan Cole

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