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The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned
Climate Crisis

The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned

Juan Cole

The bad guys included Saudi Arabia and the entire Arab bloc, along with China, India, and other nations still in thrall to Big Carbon

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West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

11/23/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Why Israeli Soldiers and their Leaders are increasingly at Risk of ArrestĀ Overseas

Why Israeli Soldiers and their Leaders are increasingly at Risk of ArrestĀ Overseas

11/23/2025 By The Conversation

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

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

Like most things in Trumpworld these investment figures are pure fantasies, and it is disturbing that he is apparently making geopolitical policy

Juan Cole

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

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

Gaza remains in ruins, Palestinians remain under the boot of an unrestrained occupying power, and Washington still acts as the global custodian

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

Think of “President” Trump, in short, as a twofer when it comes to potential planetary destruction.

Tom Engelhardt

Apartheid
The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid

The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid

Such a shift would be consistent with the Israeli far-right’s redemptionist dreams of Jewish supremacy and Greater Israel

Dan Steinbock

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

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

The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel did not culminate in an Israeli triumph or an Iranian eclipse.

Middle East Monitor

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

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

In Tehran, and in Mashhad some reservoirs are at less than 5% and 3% capacity, respectively

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Assaults on US Academic Freedom:  Acquiescence and Resistance

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance

Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

When a chartered flight carrying more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg last week, confusion filled South African airwaves

Middle East Monitor

Arms Sales
The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

U.S. interceptors have failed almost half their tests, and the secretary of defense responds by bellowing: “That’s what $50 billion buys us?”

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