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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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Turbocharging Green Energy would Allow Ukraine, Europe better to defy Putin's War

Turbocharging Green Energy would Allow Ukraine, Europe better to defy Putin’s War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dan Sabbagh (in Kyiv) and Patrick Wintour report in The Guardian that recent Russian drone, rocket and missile attacks on […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
QKremlin?  Russians say they Fear a NATO Invasion will Make their Children Gay

QKremlin? Russians say they Fear a NATO Invasion will Make their Children Gay

Montreal (Special to Informed Comment) – On October 17 the Russian Book Publishers Union sent a letter to the Russian Duma expressing concern thata proposed […]

Richard Foltz

Arms Sales
Iranian drones used by Russia in Ukraine show that there’s already one Victor in that War: Iran

Iranian drones used by Russia in Ukraine show that there’s already one Victor in that War: Iran

By Aaron Pilkington, University of Denver | – The war in Ukraine is helping one country achieve its foreign policy and national security objectives, but […]

The Conversation

Russia
Is it Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons?  and Home Runs?

Is it Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons? and Home Runs?

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The time has come to ban The Bomb. Of course, all those nuclear ones in the […]

Tomdispatch

Australia
More Principled than Biden, Australia's Labor Gov't Revokes Recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli Capital

More Principled than Biden, Australia’s Labor Gov’t Revokes Recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli Capital

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong, announced on Monday that the Labor Party government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Human Rights Groups Condemn Deadly Crackdown As Iranians Continue Protests

Human Rights Groups Condemn Deadly Crackdown As Iranians Continue Protests

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda | – ( RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ) – More than three dozen human rights groups have condemned Tehran’s deadly crackdown on […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel/ Palestine
The West is Complaining about an Energy Crisis, but de facto Supports Energy Shortages as Policy for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

The West is Complaining about an Energy Crisis, but de facto Supports Energy Shortages as Policy for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Russia’s war in Ukraine is about to enter its ninth month. While the […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Solar Farms foster Wildlife and Biodiversity.  *Not* a Blight on the Landscape

Solar Farms foster Wildlife and Biodiversity. *Not* a Blight on the Landscape

By Angie Turner, Keele University; Eleanor Harrison, Staffordshire University; and Zoe Robinson, Keele University | – Liz Truss, the new UK prime minister, isn’t a […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
US officials, having Stabbed Palestinians in the Back for Decades, now "Offended" that President Abbas doesn't Trust them and Wants Russia Involved

US officials, having Stabbed Palestinians in the Back for Decades, now “Offended” that President Abbas doesn’t Trust them and Wants Russia Involved

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Barak Ravid at Axios reports that Biden administration officials are furious about remarks by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas saying he […]

Juan Cole

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