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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
Donald Trump

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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Trump’s war on Climate Science is pushing us into a Dystopian Future

Trump’s war on Climate Science is pushing us into a Dystopian Future

By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University (The Conversation) – US President Donald Trump’s latest war on the climate includes withdrawing support for any research […]

The Conversation

Christianity
Why White Christian Nationalists are Freaked out: Liberals are More likely to be Non-Religious than Christian

Why White Christian Nationalists are Freaked out: Liberals are More likely to be Non-Religious than Christian

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ironically, White Christian nationalism has captured the U.S. government despite its steep decline in popularity among the public. The Pew […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental Damage − Can it Recover?

Israel’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental Damage − Can it Recover?

By Lesley Joseph, University of South Carolina (The Conversation) – The war in Gaza has come with an awful cost. Tens of thousands of Palestinian […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy

How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy

By Norman Solomon ( Tomdispatch.com) – Donald Trump’s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last […]

Norman Solomon

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Germany: A Not-So-Green Departing Government, A Future Coalition even Less Ambitious on Climate?

Germany: A Not-So-Green Departing Government, A Future Coalition even Less Ambitious on Climate?

Zwickau/Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– When Germans voted in a national election in September 2021, 33% of the population considered that the environment […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s West Bank Offensive looks very much like a Prelude to Annexation

Israel’s West Bank Offensive looks very much like a Prelude to Annexation

by Rabia Ali ( Middle East Monitor ) – As its armed forces intensify their assault on the northern West Bank, concerns are mounting over […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel
Israel escalates strikes in Syria amid post-Assad transition: A pattern of regional expansion

Israel escalates strikes in Syria amid post-Assad transition: A pattern of regional expansion

Written byWalid El Houri ( Globalvoices.org ) – On February 25, 2025, as Syria’s new government convened a national dialogue to chart the nation’s future […]

Global Voices

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Should Biden, Blinken, Austin and Trump be tried at the Hague for Gaza Genocide?

Should Biden, Blinken, Austin and Trump be tried at the Hague for Gaza Genocide?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The civil society human rights NGO DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) has submitted a detailed filing to the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Trump’s Gaza “Reconstruction Proposal” is Doomed to Failure

Why Trump’s Gaza “Reconstruction Proposal” is Doomed to Failure

By Ali Asgary, York University, Canada There have been many conversations around U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal to permanently displace Palestinians from Gaza to […]

The Conversation

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