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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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3 ways these latest Iran Demonstrations are different from past Protests

3 ways these latest Iran Demonstrations are different from past Protests

By Naser Ghobadzadeh, Australian Catholic University | – Once again, Iran is in the midst of political upheaval and civil unrest. The latest protests, triggered […]

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Greece
Biden needs NATO unity to Confront Russia, but will Turkish-Greek Conflict in the Aegean Break it Up?

Biden needs NATO unity to Confront Russia, but will Turkish-Greek Conflict in the Aegean Break it Up?

By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – For the first time in its long history, NATO’s unity is under threat […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Climate Damage:  Nord Stream Pipeline Leaks "a super-emitter event of unimaginable proportions"

Climate Damage: Nord Stream Pipeline Leaks “a super-emitter event of unimaginable proportions”

By Carolina Kyllmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Leaking methane from the damaged Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is likely to […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Dear Gov. DeSantis: Ian isn't a once-in-500-years Flooding event, it is the New Normal, and Your Policies are helping Cause it

Dear Gov. DeSantis: Ian isn’t a once-in-500-years Flooding event, it is the New Normal, and Your Policies are helping Cause it

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has abruptly been handed an honest-to-God crisis that may distract him from his usual antics of […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Juan Cole on Theocracy:  The David Feldman Show (Video)

Juan Cole on Theocracy: The David Feldman Show (Video)

The David Feldman Show | Juan Cole on Theocracy | – “03:30:52 SPECIAL GUEST: Professor Juan Cole in conversation with Professor Adnan Husain Professor Cole […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Iranian women have been rebelling against restrictions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – with renewed hope that protests this time will end differently

Iranian women have been rebelling against restrictions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – with renewed hope that protests this time will end differently

By Pardis Mahdavi, The University of Montana | – Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How America’s Democracy Is “Ripe to Be Exploited”

How America’s Democracy Is “Ripe to Be Exploited”

By Eric Umansky | – ( ProPublica) – Voters in Sweden this month gave a leading role to a far-right party with neo-Nazi roots. Italy […]

ProPublica

Pentagon
Lie all you can Lie:  Dishonesty Plagues America's War Machine

Lie all you can Lie: Dishonesty Plagues America’s War Machine

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As a military professor for six years at the U.S. Air Force Academy in the 1990s, I often walked past the […]

William J. Astore

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Iranian Revolutionary Guards launch Drone Strikes on Dissident Kurds in Iraq, as Baghdad summons Iranian Ambassador

Iranian Revolutionary Guards launch Drone Strikes on Dissident Kurds in Iraq, as Baghdad summons Iranian Ambassador

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps on Wednesday targeted Iranian Kurdish expatriate political and paramilitary groups in the Kurdistan Regional Government […]

Juan Cole

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