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Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing
China

Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Hamdullah Baycar

Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

07/04/2025 By Daanish Faruqi

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

07/04/2025 By Arnold R. Isaacs

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Trump Isn't too Big to Jail -- if we are a Nation of Laws

Trump Isn’t too Big to Jail — if we are a Nation of Laws

By Mitchell Zimmerman The day after Donald Trump was arraigned for his alleged effort to steal the 2020 election, he posted a naked threat: “IF […]

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African-Americans
How some Muslim and non-Muslim Rappers alike embrace Islam's Greeting of Peace

How some Muslim and non-Muslim Rappers alike embrace Islam’s Greeting of Peace

By Margarita Guillory, Boston University and Jeta Luboteni, Boston University | – Ever since the United States’ “war on terror” began, American media has been […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Global Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Skyrocket to $7 trillion per Year, as 2023 Promises to be Hottest on Record

Global Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Skyrocket to $7 trillion per Year, as 2023 Promises to be Hottest on Record

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Imagine a bunch of people who are kidnapped and tortured by being put in a hot room, and their tormentors […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
How Turkey's Opposition Elite enabled Erdoğan and Misled Voters

How Turkey’s Opposition Elite enabled Erdoğan and Misled Voters

Written bySinan Ciddi     ( Globalvoices.org ) – The sources of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s power are vast. In his over twenty years of rule, […]

Global Voices

Anti-intellectualism
Defending Professor Satyel Larson’s Right to Teach her Field freely at Princeton despite Israel Lobbies’ Pressure

Defending Professor Satyel Larson’s Right to Teach her Field freely at Princeton despite Israel Lobbies’ Pressure

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Christopher Eisgruber President, Princeton University fax: 609-258-1615   Professor Gene Jarrett  Dean of the Faculty, Princeton […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Crime
Trump joins a long Line of Thuggish Racketeers who took a Defiant Mug Shot that did them no Good, including Al Capone

Trump joins a long Line of Thuggish Racketeers who took a Defiant Mug Shot that did them no Good, including Al Capone

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The tactic of staring sternly into the camera in defiance when having a mug shot taken after being charged and […]

Juan Cole

Propaganda
Saudi Arabia’s Pro League is taking Advantage of Football’s Greed and Inequality

Saudi Arabia’s Pro League is taking Advantage of Football’s Greed and Inequality

By Alan McDougall, University of Guelph | – (The Conversation) – For Liverpool supporters like me, Jordan Henderson was one of football’s good guys. He […]

The Conversation

Uncategorized
Kissinger at 100:  Did Realism really require War Crimes?

Kissinger at 100: Did Realism really require War Crimes?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
As America faces Greatest Threat in Climate Crisis, Yellow-Bellied Republican Candidates Cower in Denial

As America faces Greatest Threat in Climate Crisis, Yellow-Bellied Republican Candidates Cower in Denial

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Neil Vigdor at the NYT focuses on the short moment in the Republican Debate last night when reality intervened in […]

Juan Cole

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