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Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing
China

Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Hamdullah Baycar

Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

07/04/2025 By Daanish Faruqi

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

07/04/2025 By Arnold R. Isaacs

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Inequality
The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price

The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price

By Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi, photography by Rich-Joseph Facun, graphics by Haisam Hussein | – Co-published with NPR News ( ProPublica ) – Henry […]

ProPublica

Authoritarianism
Top Iran Prosecutor Threatens Death Penalty for Leading Protests, as Government arrests over 7,000

Top Iran Prosecutor Threatens Death Penalty for Leading Protests, as Government arrests over 7,000

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – BBC Monitoring reports that the protests in Iran are continuing, both in small towns and big cities, though the situation […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Fracking and Harsh Discipline undid UK's Liz Truss, in Warning to Conservative Parties Everywhere

Tax Cuts for the Rich, Fracking and Harsh Discipline undid UK’s Liz Truss, in Warning to Conservative Parties Everywhere

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – The British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced to step down on Thursday 20th October only after 44 days […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Arms Sales
Ukraine war: Iranian ‘kamikaze’ drones can inflict serious damage but will not be a gamechanger

Ukraine war: Iranian ‘kamikaze’ drones can inflict serious damage but will not be a gamechanger

By Dominika Kunertova, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | – Many Ukrainians are facing the prospect of a winter of power outages after about […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
The Ukraine Moment:   Lessons from the War on Terror

The Ukraine Moment: Lessons from the War on Terror

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ukraine is obviously a powder keg. With each passing day, in fact, the war there poses new threats to the world […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Climate Crisis
California to Power 1.5 Million Homes with Offshore Floating Wind Turbines in March toward Zero Carbon

California to Power 1.5 Million Homes with Offshore Floating Wind Turbines in March toward Zero Carbon

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Department of the Interior announced this week that on December 6, auctions will be held for offshore wind farms […]

Juan Cole

American Jews
Ken Burns' Holocaust Documentary should set our Hair on Fire about the Creep of Trumpian Fascism

Ken Burns’ Holocaust Documentary should set our Hair on Fire about the Creep of Trumpian Fascism

Oakland (Special to Informed Comment) – The genius of Ken Burns’ documentaries is his ability to personify history. Watching the documentary by Burns, Lynn Novick […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Natural Gas
Has Putin bought Ankara's Neutrality in Ukraine War with a Pledge to Make Turkiye a Gas Hub for Europe?

Has Putin bought Ankara’s Neutrality in Ukraine War with a Pledge to Make Turkiye a Gas Hub for Europe?

By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – To produce energy takes ages, but setting up new diplomatic ties, changes day […]

Middle East Monitor

Greece
Could Tensions between Greece and Turkey spiral into yet another European war?

Could Tensions between Greece and Turkey spiral into yet another European war?

By Yasar Bukan, Toronto Metropolitan University | – Tensions are flaring between Turkey and Greece over the militarization of the eastern Aegean islands and a […]

The Conversation

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