Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]
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Undisclosed: Billionaire Harlan Crow bought House from Clarence Thomas where Justice’s Mother Lives
By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ( ProPublica ) – In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies purchased a string of […]
DNA Study Sheds Light on Arab Expansion in Africa, Axum and other Empires
By Nancy Bird, UCL | – Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilisations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the […]
Weaponizing ChatGPT? The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars
( Tomdispatch.com )- Why is the Pentagon budget so high? On March 13th, the Biden administration unveiled its $842 billion military budget request for 2024, […]
Assault on Religious Freedom: Violent Crackdown by Israeli Police on Christian Worshipers in Jerusalem
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arabic press is reporting violent assaults Saturday evening by Israeli police against Palestinian Christian worshipers in Jerusalem attempting to […]
Trump’s Al Capone Moment
By Mitchell Zimmerman | ( Otherwords.org) – The Prohibition Era mobster and thug Alphonse “Al” Capone comes to mind as we see the man […]
Heavy Fighting Breaks out in Sudanese Capital, Imperiling Revolution
( Middle East Monitor ) – Clashes erupted Saturday between the conventional Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), formerly known as […]
The Taliban is not playing Straight with the west over Easing of Sanctions – and Women and Girls are paying much of the Price
By Kambaiz Rafi, SOAS, University of London | – The economic and political isolation of Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021 has worsened […]
US in Eclipse: 240,000 Palestinians worship at al-Aqsa in Jerusalem as Iran, Lebanon, Show Solidarity on Jerusalem Day
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Quds (Jerusalem) Day is commemorated on the last Friday of Ramadan, and was held yesterday. “Al-Quds” is the Arabic name […]
A Renewed Yemen Truce Is No Substitute for Justice
By Peter Certo | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The news that Saudi officials, who have been leading a bombing campaign in […]
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