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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

06/18/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

06/18/2025 By The Conversation

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What it means that El Niño is coming on Top of a long-term Trend of Human-driven Global Heating

What it means that El Niño is coming on Top of a long-term Trend of Human-driven Global Heating

By David Armstrong McKay, Stockholm University | – (The Conversation) – The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed it: El Niño conditions have arrived […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
The French "Nahel" Protests spring from Systemic Racism, not Immigration or Islam

The French “Nahel” Protests spring from Systemic Racism, not Immigration or Islam

Sousse, Tunisia (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Since June 27, every news channel has been covering the recent protests in Paris. On the surface, […]

Mohamed Jegham

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Turkey’s Erdogan abruptly lifts veto on Sweden in NATO: What it means for the Alliance and Ukraine War

Turkey’s Erdogan abruptly lifts veto on Sweden in NATO: What it means for the Alliance and Ukraine War

Simon J Smith, Staffordshire University and Jordan Becker, United States Military Academy West Point | – In a surprise move, Turkey has ended its veto […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
UN Expert accuses Israel of sexually abusing Palestinian Prisoners

UN Expert accuses Israel of sexually abusing Palestinian Prisoners

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has turned Palestine into an “open-air prison” where Palestinians, including tens of thousands of children, are “constantly confined, […]

Middle East Monitor

Artificial Intelligence
AI vs. AI: And Human Extinction as Collateral Damage

AI vs. AI: And Human Extinction as Collateral Damage

( Tomdispatch.com) – A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is […]

Michael T. Klare

China
Will China Leapfrog America in the Middle East Using its Green Technology and EVs?

Will China Leapfrog America in the Middle East Using its Green Technology and EVs?

Over the past decade, since Xi Jinping became the General-Secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2012, he has accelerated China’s return to […]

Neil Thompson

Climate Crisis
We don’t Need to let Fossil Fuels and Forest Fires Choke Us — Green Energy is Here and its Price is Plummeting

We don’t Need to let Fossil Fuels and Forest Fires Choke Us — Green Energy is Here and its Price is Plummeting

Dr. Joel Charles ( Wisconsin Examiner ) – Every day last week I woke up dismayed to see the haze from the Canadian wildfire smoke.  […]

Wisconsin Examiner

China
China as a Mediator in Israel-Palestine

China as a Mediator in Israel-Palestine

Nor Aishah Hanifa ( Middle East Monitor ) – China’s rise in the 20th century and its advancement in the 21st create what is called […]

Middle East Monitor

censorship
Is Saudi Arabia using "Sportswashing" to Simply Hide its Human Rights Abuses -- Or is there a Bigger Strategy at Play?

Is Saudi Arabia using “Sportswashing” to Simply Hide its Human Rights Abuses — Or is there a Bigger Strategy at Play?

By Ben Rich, Curtin University and Leena Adel, Curtin University | – As Saudi Arabia continues to open up internationally, it is yet again in […]

The Conversation

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