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Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar
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Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bombed the building being used by civilian Hamas negotiators in Doha, Qatar, […]

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Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

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Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

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Africa
DNA Study Sheds Light on Arab Expansion in Africa, Axum and other Empires

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 […]

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Artificial Intelligence
Weaponizing ChatGPT?  The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars

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, […]

Michael T. Klare

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Assault on Religious Freedom: Violent Crackdown by Israeli Police on Christian Worshipers in Jerusalem

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 […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Trump's Al Capone Moment

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 […]

OtherWords

Authoritarianism
Heavy Fighting Breaks out in Sudanese Capital, Imperiling Revolution

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 […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
The Taliban is not playing Straight with the west over Easing of Sanctions – and Women and Girls are paying much of the Price

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 […]

The Conversation

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US in Eclipse: 240,000 Palestinians worship at al-Aqsa in Jerusalem as Iran, Lebanon, Show Solidarity on Jerusalem Day

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 […]

Juan Cole

Iran
A Renewed Yemen Truce Is No Substitute for Justice

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 […]

Peter Certo

Climate Crisis
Boosting EV Market Share to 67% of US Car Sales is a huge Leap – but Automakers can meet EPA’s tough new Standards

Boosting EV Market Share to 67% of US Car Sales is a huge Leap – but Automakers can meet EPA’s tough new Standards

By Alan Jenn, University of California, Davis | – (The Conversation) – One big question keeps surfacing after the Biden administration announced plans to raise […]

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