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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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Arab Americans
First Hijab-Wearing Muslim Judge joins Bench at US Court in New Jersey

First Hijab-Wearing Muslim Judge joins Bench at US Court in New Jersey

( Middle East Monitor) – US attorney Nadia Kahf has been appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court, becoming the first hijab-wearing judge on the […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
Constitutional Crisis Threatens to Tear Israel Apart as Att'y-Gen. takes on Netanyahu and 200 Reservist Pilots refuse to Fly

Constitutional Crisis Threatens to Tear Israel Apart as Att’y-Gen. takes on Netanyahu and 200 Reservist Pilots refuse to Fly

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the Israeli parliament passed a law preventing the Supreme Court from removing a sitting prime minister for inability […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
IPCC’s Conservative Nature masks true Scale of Action needed to avert Catastrophic Climate Change

IPCC’s Conservative Nature masks true Scale of Action needed to avert Catastrophic Climate Change

By Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester | – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) synthesis report recently landed with an authoritative thump, giving voice […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
German Electric Car exports rise more than 65 percent in 2022

German Electric Car exports rise more than 65 percent in 2022

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – German exports of electric cars rose more than 65 percent last year to some […]

Clean Energy Wire

Iraq
Ukraine and the Lessons of the Iraq War

Ukraine and the Lessons of the Iraq War

By John Feffer | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Leaving aside the manufactured justifications, the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 to […]

John Feffer

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Why are We There?  Biden Bombs Syria, after Drone Kills US Contractor, wounds 5 US Military Personnel

Why are We There? Biden Bombs Syria, after Drone Kills US Contractor, wounds 5 US Military Personnel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden ordered air strikes on Thursday (Friday in Syria) against militiamen in the Harabish neighborhood just outside the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s new Cycles of forcibly displacing Palestinians

Israel’s new Cycles of forcibly displacing Palestinians

Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) – US President Joe Biden placed much emphasis on rhetorically opposing Israel’s settlement expansion. Hence the reaction from Washington […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
IPCC report: We’re in Deep Trouble on Climate Emergency, and Don’t Have Much Time to Act

IPCC report: We’re in Deep Trouble on Climate Emergency, and Don’t Have Much Time to Act

By Frank Jotzo, Australian National University and Mark Howden, Australian National University | – The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Prophecies, Then and Now:   My Life at World's End

Prophecies, Then and Now: My Life at World’s End

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy” in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some […]

Tom Engelhardt

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