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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East
Donald Trump

Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After thirty years of agitation, incitement, lies and provocation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally succeeded in […]

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

06/24/2025 By The Conversation

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

06/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Arab World
No more “Marry your Rapist”:  Repeal Laws Discriminating against Women in the Middle East – ‘Equality Now’

No more “Marry your Rapist”: Repeal Laws Discriminating against Women in the Middle East – ‘Equality Now’

By Amelia Smith | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The women’s rights NGO, Equality Now, has released a policy brief to mark International […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
COP27: how the Fossil Fuel Lobby Crowded out Calls for Climate Justice

COP27: how the Fossil Fuel Lobby Crowded out Calls for Climate Justice

By Alix Dietzel, University of Bristol | – COP27 has just wrapped up. Despite much excitement over a new fund to address “loss and damage” […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Did the Ukraine War kill 'Natural Gas?'  Solar Power is 10 times Cheaper over the long Term

Did the Ukraine War kill ‘Natural Gas?’ Solar Power is 10 times Cheaper over the long Term

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The independent energy research firm Rystad Energy, headquartered in Oslo, has found that it would be ten times less expensive […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Ukraine War, Energy Crisis, pushes Germans’ Acceptance of Wind Turbines to Record Level

Ukraine War, Energy Crisis, pushes Germans’ Acceptance of Wind Turbines to Record Level

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Onshore wind power has become more popular than ever among people living in Germany […]

Clean Energy Wire

Israel/ Palestine
Will Netanyahu's new Religious Right Gov't Turn Israel into an Iran, with Gender Segregation and Pampered Seminarians?

Will Netanyahu’s new Religious Right Gov’t Turn Israel into an Iran, with Gender Segregation and Pampered Seminarians?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has asked Likud voters a series of questions related to the current impasse […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

By Fergus Green, UCL and Harro van Asselt, Stockholm Environment Institute | – (The Conversation) – The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once […]

The Conversation

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Thanksgiving:  The Pilgrims were saved by Native Advice; We should listen to Deb Haaland and other Native Leaders on the Climate Crisis

Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims were saved by Native Advice; We should listen to Deb Haaland and other Native Leaders on the Climate Crisis

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran’s Creative Resistance: From Hugs and Kisses to Tossing Turbans

Iran’s Creative Resistance: From Hugs and Kisses to Tossing Turbans

By Fred Petrossian | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – It has been eight weeks since protests erupted across Iran on September 16 in response to […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
How young Climate Activists built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With

How young Climate Activists built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With

By Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – When I became a climate organizer in college in the early 2000s, the words “youth […]

Waging Nonviolence

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