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The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict
Donald Trump

The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict

Volkan Isbasaran

On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with US President Donald Trump on the margins of the NATO summit at the Hague. His office […]

How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

06/25/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

06/25/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Climate Crisis: Atmospheric rivers are hitting the Arctic more often, and increasingly melting its Sea Ice

Climate Crisis: Atmospheric rivers are hitting the Arctic more often, and increasingly melting its Sea Ice

By Pengfei Zhang, Penn State | – (The Conversation) – Atmospheric rivers, those long, powerful streams of moisture in the sky, are becoming more frequent […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Iran's Khamenei admits to holding "Tens of Thousands" of Prisoners of Conscience, Offers Amnesty if they Apologize for anti-Regime Protests

Iran’s Khamenei admits to holding “Tens of Thousands” of Prisoners of Conscience, Offers Amnesty if they Apologize for anti-Regime Protests

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The official website of Iran’s “August Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced Sunday that “tens of thousands” (دهها هزار) of political […]

Juan Cole

China
Was the Chinese Spy Balloon a Sign of Infighting among China's Power Elite?

Was the Chinese Spy Balloon a Sign of Infighting among China’s Power Elite?

Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – China’s balloon incursion was no accident but an expression of both internal Chinese politics and of its foreign policy. […]

Michael G. Roskin

Israel/ Palestine
International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine

International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine

By Omar Ahmed | – (Middle East Monitor ) – A conference was held in London yesterday, hosted by MEMO entitled “International perspectives on apartheid […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
“Some say the World will End in Fire, some say in Ice”: Life in a Climate-Destabilized California

“Some say the World will End in Fire, some say in Ice”: Life in a Climate-Destabilized California

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was January 1983 and raining in San Francisco. The summer before, I’d moved here from Portland, Oregon, a city known […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Why is the Biden Administration So Worried about Israel's New Government? (Juan Cole Video Interview)

Why is the Biden Administration So Worried about Israel’s New Government? (Juan Cole Video Interview)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I am interviewed by prominent journalist Steve Clemons, editor at large of the global news site Semafor, for his Al […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
How Russians, Indigenous People and Belarusians are uniting to resist the War in Ukraine

How Russians, Indigenous People and Belarusians are uniting to resist the War in Ukraine

By Eleftheria Kousta | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Anastasia Witts, a U.K.-based arts producer, wasn’t yet out of bed on the morning of […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
Western Wildfires destroyed 246% more Homes and Buildings over the past Decade –  Scientists explain Why

Western Wildfires destroyed 246% more Homes and Buildings over the past Decade – Scientists explain Why

By Philip Higuera, University of Montana; Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder, Maxwell Cook, University of Colorado Boulder; and Natasha Stavros, University of Colorado Boulder […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Rooftop Solar Soared 40% (3 Gigawatts) in Germany Last Year, as Families Flee Unstable Russian Fossil Fuels

Rooftop Solar Soared 40% (3 Gigawatts) in Germany Last Year, as Families Flee Unstable Russian Fossil Fuels

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped 28 percent in 2022, with 7.2 gigawatts (GW) […]

Clean Energy Wire

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