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Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran
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Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-Iranian War of 2025 has put Iraq in an extremely difficult situation. The country’s Shiite majority sympathizes with Iran […]

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

06/16/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

06/16/2025 By John Feffer

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China
Green Jobs take off in China after Beijing's Carbon Neutrality Pledge

Green Jobs take off in China after Beijing’s Carbon Neutrality Pledge

Jiang Mengnan ( China Dialogue ) – Around the world, tech and finance companies have been laying staff off. In 2022, tech firms’ payrolls fell […]

China Dialogue

Food Security
Russia’s Agricultural Warfare: Bomb and Blockade Strategy Imperils World’s Hungry

Russia’s Agricultural Warfare: Bomb and Blockade Strategy Imperils World’s Hungry

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Saudi Arabia is pissed off at Russia. It’s not as if the Gulf state has released any angry […]

John Feffer

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Israeli Extremists Shamefully propose "Puerto Rican" Model for Palestinians

Israeli Extremists Shamefully propose “Puerto Rican” Model for Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yair Wallach in a post at X notes that Jewish Power Party member Amihay Eliyahu proposes that Palestinians be treated […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
How the Prosecutors will Build the case that Trump Knowingly Lied and Intentionally Broke the Law

How the Prosecutors will Build the case that Trump Knowingly Lied and Intentionally Broke the Law

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard University | – What was Donald Trump thinking when he set about trying to maintain the presidency after losing it […]

The Conversation

Apartheid
Biden wants Israel and Saudi Arabia to Normalize, but are Riyadh’s Demands for Nuclearization a Deal Breaker?

Biden wants Israel and Saudi Arabia to Normalize, but are Riyadh’s Demands for Nuclearization a Deal Breaker?

Dr Adnan Abu Amer AdnanAbuAmer2   ( Middle East Monitor ) – Despite US efforts to get Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalise their relations, […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
The New Abnormal:   Living on an ever More Extreme Planet

The New Abnormal: Living on an ever More Extreme Planet

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Hey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Climate Change is the New Mideast Extremism -- Iraq Hottest Place on Earth, as Iran goes into Lockdown

Climate Change is the New Mideast Extremism — Iraq Hottest Place on Earth, as Iran goes into Lockdown

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The deadly effects of ideological extremism in the Middle East for the past few decades have caused governments and journalists […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel didn’t Place Palestinians in “Refugee,” but in Internment Camps

Israel didn’t Place Palestinians in “Refugee,” but in Internment Camps

Thomas Suarez   ( Middle East Monitor ) – During much of 1948, Palestinians driven from their homes by the violence of that terrible year […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
What Happened To Democracy in Turkey?

What Happened To Democracy in Turkey?

Umut Özkırımlı      ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Despite initial skepticism regarding the results of the November 2002 general elections — which saw the […]

Waging Nonviolence

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