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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
Donald Trump

Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Climate Crisis
The Ukraine War must Impel us to Switch to Green Energy, not Double Down on Fossil Fuels

The Ukraine War must Impel us to Switch to Green Energy, not Double Down on Fossil Fuels

By Burak Elmalı | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Russia-Ukraine War has lasted for four months and counting. It has raised various […]

Middle East Monitor

China
What Difference Does a War Make?   The Geopolitics of the New Cold War

What Difference Does a War Make? The Geopolitics of the New Cold War

( Tomdispatch.com ) – From his first days in office, Joe Biden and his national security advisers seemed determined to revive America’s fading global leadership […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Apartheid
Israel's Apartheid Law Causes Bennett Government to Fall, on Eve of Biden's Visit

Israel’s Apartheid Law Causes Bennett Government to Fall, on Eve of Biden’s Visit

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will dissolve parliament and go to new elections. His […]

Juan Cole

NATO
Diplomacy, not total Victory, will in the End Settle the Ukraine War

Diplomacy, not total Victory, will in the End Settle the Ukraine War

Russia’s attack on the Ukraine certainly violated international law and Vladimir Putin should be charged as a war criminal for Russia’s indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, […]

Richard Penaskovic

Israel/ Palestine
Interview: How Israel’s Travel Ban Crushes the Dreams of the Palestinians of Gaza

Interview: How Israel’s Travel Ban Crushes the Dreams of the Palestinians of Gaza

By Paul Aufiero, Omar Shakir, and Abier Almasri | – ( Human Rights Watch ) This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Israeli government’s […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Greenwashing: how Ads get you to think Brands are greener than they are – and how to avoid falling for it

Greenwashing: how Ads get you to think Brands are greener than they are – and how to avoid falling for it

By Morteza Abolhasani, The Open University; Gordon Liu, The Open University; and Zahra Golrokhi, The Open University | – Ads are ubiquitous in many people’s […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority

Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France’s parliamentary elections witnessed an upset, with centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République En Marche and its Ensemble coalition […]

Juan Cole

Modernism
New Identity:  Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey  (Review)

New Identity: Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey (Review)

Review of Filiz Çoban Oran, Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy: Discursive Construction of New Turkey’s Identity. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. Tuebingen (Special to Informed Comment) […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Employment
Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

( Otherwords.org) – CEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. But we don’t just […]

Sam Pizzigati

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