Informed Comment

Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

. By Edward Hunt ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The Trump administration is transforming U.S. policy toward the Middle East by promoting monarchy […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Crisis

Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope […]

ProPublica

Donald Trump

Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Jazeera reports on the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to the White House. One US goal for […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump

The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

by Ranjan Solomon ( Middle East Monitor ) – The recent vote in the UN Security Council on Gaza – with Russia and China […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis

Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When I began TomDispatch in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, believe me, the world did […]

Tom Engelhardt

Apartheid

The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid

Unlike South African apartheid, which backed supremacy and exploitation, Israeli apartheid condones ethnic cleansing, even mass atrocities – as evidenced by the obliteration of Gaza […]

Dan Steinbock

Iran

The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

by Kiavash Kalhor and Mahdi Niksefat Motlagh ( Middle East Monitor ) – The dawn following 13 June brought no victory for Israel. The […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis

What Policies Can Help Solve Iran’s Climate-Driven Water Shortage?

By Sanam Mahoozi, City St George’s, University of London and Nima Shokri, United Nations University (The Conversation) – Iran is facing its most severe water […]

The Conversation

Academic Freedom