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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Spike in Extrajudicial Executions by Israeli Police of Palestinian Youth

Spike in Extrajudicial Executions by Israeli Police of Palestinian Youth

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Union has expressed its profound concern about the rash of extra-judicial killings by Israel of Palestinian young men, […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Women are the Victors in Iranian Officials' Trial Balloon on Abolishing the Morals Police

Women are the Victors in Iranian Officials’ Trial Balloon on Abolishing the Morals Police

By Farhang Jahanpour | – Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – Various Iranian and foreign news agencies have reported that Iran’s Prosecutor General has announced […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Climate Crisis
If we Want to Limit Global Heating, the World Can’t go on Spending $10 Trillion a year on Energy

If we Want to Limit Global Heating, the World Can’t go on Spending $10 Trillion a year on Energy

By Stephen Peake, The Open University | – The world’s energy bill for 2022 is set to be the highest ever, topping US$10 trillion (£8.3 […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Unequal Mercy: The West’s Approach to Refugees

Unequal Mercy: The West’s Approach to Refugees

By Helen Benedict | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
52% of S. Dakota’s Electricity comes from Wind Power and other Green Energy Triumphs even in Red States

52% of S. Dakota’s Electricity comes from Wind Power and other Green Energy Triumphs even in Red States

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – About 10% of the electricity generated in the US comes from wind installations. It isn’t nearly enough, either to fight […]

Juan Cole

Carbon Footprint
G20 still paying Billions in Fossil Fuel Subsidies

G20 still paying Billions in Fossil Fuel Subsidies

By Catherine Early | – ( China Dialogue) – The Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum of 19 countries and the European Union. These […]

China Dialogue

Russia
Historical Reasons that Turkey is the pivot point between Russia and the US on Ukraine War

Historical Reasons that Turkey is the pivot point between Russia and the US on Ukraine War

By Georgios Giannakopoulos, City, University of London | – (The Conversation) – The war in Ukraine has put Turkey into the geopolitical spotlight. One of […]

The Conversation

Internet
In Turkey, Social Media Platforms become Complicit in censoring Media and Freedom of Speech

In Turkey, Social Media Platforms become Complicit in censoring Media and Freedom of Speech

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Global Voices ) – Metin Cihan is a Turkish journalist who has long been engaged in exposing corruption among […]

Global Voices

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Israel: Defying Biden, Netanyahu allows extremist Religious Zionists to rule over West Bank Palestinians

Israel: Defying Biden, Netanyahu allows extremist Religious Zionists to rule over West Bank Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that that Binyamin Netanyahu’s far right Likud Party concluded a coalition agreement with the […]

Juan Cole

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