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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

06/23/2025 By The Conversation

No Kings!  This is What Democracy Looks Like

No Kings! This is What Democracy Looks Like

06/23/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Return Of ‘Morality Police’ To Iranian Streets Leaves Women Fearful But Defiant

Return Of ‘Morality Police’ To Iranian Streets Leaves Women Fearful But Defiant

By Mehdi Tahbaz “Our girls are fighting and know that there is no way back for us and we are not going back, and our […]

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Climate Crisis
Climate Change has landed Florida in Hot Water, with Worse to Come if we Keep Burning Fossil Fuels

Climate Change has landed Florida in Hot Water, with Worse to Come if we Keep Burning Fossil Fuels

Craig Pittman   ( Florida Phoenix) – As a collector of clever Florida signs, I could not decide which one was a better commentary. One, […]

Florida Phoenix

censorship
Extremists Want to Ban Discussing Their Abortion Bans

Extremists Want to Ban Discussing Their Abortion Bans

  By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org) – Unfortunately, it’s 1984 again in America. Not the year. The book. George Orwell’s classic novel tells of […]

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The "Destruction of the Third Temple"?  Israel's Apocalyptic Civil War Weakens State, Military

The “Destruction of the Third Temple”? Israel’s Apocalyptic Civil War Weakens State, Military

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, all hell broke loose in Israel, even more so than the recent norm. The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 […]

Juan Cole

European Union
Turkey has a long Road ahead with renewed European Union Bid

Turkey has a long Road ahead with renewed European Union Bid

Written byArzu Geybullayeva ( Globalvoices.org) – On July 20, European Union foreign ministers met to discuss Ankara’s renewed accession demands and agreed to re-engage with […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Biodiversity
The Forgotten Amazon: As a Critical Summit Nears, Politicians must Work Against Deforestation in Bolivia’s Amazon

The Forgotten Amazon: As a Critical Summit Nears, Politicians must Work Against Deforestation in Bolivia’s Amazon

By Victor Galaz, Stockholm University | – When asked to situate the world’s most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Germany on Track to 3 new Gigawatts of Onshore Wind this Year as Expansion Accelerates

Germany on Track to 3 new Gigawatts of Onshore Wind this Year as Expansion Accelerates

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The speed of Germany’s onshore wind power expansion is accelerating, but it is still […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Egypt
The Existential Crisis of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Existential Crisis of the Muslim Brotherhood

Review of Abdelrahman Ayyash, Amr ElAfifi, and Noha Ezzat, Broken Bonds: The Existential Crisis of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, 2013-22 (Washington, DC: The Century Foundation, 2023). […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Archaeology
416,000 Years Ago, All Greenland's Ice Melted and Raised Sea Levels 5-20 Feet: A Warning from the Past

416,000 Years Ago, All Greenland’s Ice Melted and Raised Sea Levels 5-20 Feet: A Warning from the Past

By Paul Bierman, University of Vermont, and Tammy Rittenour, Utah State University | – About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby […]

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