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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
Donald Trump

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

09/19/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Sudan crisis Explained: What’s behind the latest Fighting and its Roots in the Past

Sudan crisis Explained: What’s behind the latest Fighting and its Roots in the Past

By Christopher Tounsel, University of Washington | – Days of violence in Sudan have resulted in the deaths of at least 180 people, with many […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Apartheid at Last Described in the Pages of the Venerable ‘Foreign Affairs’ Journal

Israeli Apartheid at Last Described in the Pages of the Venerable ‘Foreign Affairs’ Journal

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks   The remarkable pace by which the term “apartheid” has moved from the margins of the Israeli-Palestinian debate to its centre was […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
America’s Climate Refugees are Swelling, driven by Rising Seas, Wildfires and Extreme Heat

America’s Climate Refugees are Swelling, driven by Rising Seas, Wildfires and Extreme Heat

By Laureen Fagan   ( Sustainability Times) – News of an accelerating sea level rise along the Gulf Coast of the United States has renewed […]

Sustainability Times

Climate Crisis
India lets 2 Gigawatt Solar Tender, as Solar soared 27% in 2022

India lets 2 Gigawatt Solar Tender, as Solar soared 27% in 2022

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – India has invited bids on a 2 gigawatt solar power tender. The country has 64 gigawatts of installed solar capacity […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Undisclosed: Billionaire Harlan Crow bought House from Clarence Thomas where Justice’s Mother Lives

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 […]

ProPublica

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 […]

The Conversation

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

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