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Türkiye Bans Israeli Ships, Goods at its Ports, Halts Cargo Overflights, Declares Gaza a Genocide
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Türkiye Bans Israeli Ships, Goods at its Ports, Halts Cargo Overflights, Declares Gaza a Genocide

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that his country would completely cut economic relations with Israel, blocking Israeli ships from […]

Monsoon flooding has killed hundreds in Pakistan – climate change is pushing the rainy season from blessing to looming catastrophe

Monsoon flooding has killed hundreds in Pakistan – climate change is pushing the rainy season from blessing to looming catastrophe

08/31/2025 By The Conversation

Host, Bully, Hypocrite: The US’s Shameful Gatekeeping of the United Nations

Host, Bully, Hypocrite: The US’s Shameful Gatekeeping of the United Nations

08/31/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Jimmy Carter's Greatest Triumph:  Guinea Worm on Verge of Extinction, with only 13 Cases in 2022

Jimmy Carter’s Greatest Triumph: Guinea Worm on Verge of Extinction, with only 13 Cases in 2022

Former President Jimmy Carter’s family has announced that he is undergoing hospice care at home, a sign of his imminent passing. In his honor, I […]

Juan Cole

European Union
Ukraine war has exposed the Folly – and unintended Consequences – of ‘Armed Missionaries’

Ukraine war has exposed the Folly – and unintended Consequences – of ‘Armed Missionaries’

By Ronald Suny, University of Michigan | – ( The Conversation) – The evening before Russia invaded Ukraine, it seemed to many observers – me […]

Ronald Suny

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Saudi-owned LIV Golf "Sportswashes" Rights Abuses

Saudi-owned LIV Golf “Sportswashes” Rights Abuses

By Leila Saad, Research Assistant | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is attempting to “sportswash” the country’s egregious […]

Human Rights Watch

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You can’t be for Liberty if you’re for banning Books

You can’t be for Liberty if you’re for banning Books

By Bill Tubbs | – ( Iowa Capital Dispatch) – Two years ago in my column in the North Scott Press, I introduced “Signs that […]

Iowa Capital Dispatch

Africa
Israeli Delegate Expelled from African Union Summit, in what may be First Global South Reaction to new Extremist Netanyahu Government

Israeli Delegate Expelled from African Union Summit, in what may be First Global South Reaction to new Extremist Netanyahu Government

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday at the opening of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Israeli delegate was asked to […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Turkish President Erdoğan’s grip on Power threatened by devastating Earthquake

Turkish President Erdoğan’s grip on Power threatened by devastating Earthquake

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – The earthquake that struck Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023, is first and foremost a human […]

The Conversation

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'Radical Change Will Come': Iranians Propose New Political System After Months Of Anti-Regime Protests

‘Radical Change Will Come’: Iranians Propose New Political System After Months Of Anti-Regime Protests

( RFE/ RL) – For months, antiestablishment protesters have called for the overthrow of Iran’s clerical regime and demanded greater social and political freedoms. Now, […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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Northwest Climate Activists, including Native Americans, Target new Oil Pipeline to stop Fossil Fuels

Northwest Climate Activists, including Native Americans, Target new Oil Pipeline to stop Fossil Fuels

Climate groups and Indigenous nations are working to add the GTN Xpress pipeline expansion to a long list of defeated fossil fuel transportation projects in […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Do we Have Until 2050 to become Carbon Neutral? What if 27 Climate Feedback Loops are Working together to Shorten our Deadline?

Do we Have Until 2050 to become Carbon Neutral? What if 27 Climate Feedback Loops are Working together to Shorten our Deadline?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Feedback loops are central notions in science. There are two kinds, negative and positive. Negative feedback loops, despite their name, […]

Juan Cole

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