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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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Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lutheran World Federation Council has called for an end to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian Territories (Gaza […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
German Gov't Dedicates 2% of Country's Land Area to Onshore Wind

German Gov’t Dedicates 2% of Country’s Land Area to Onshore Wind

By Kerstine Appunn | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – More areas in Germany are going to be designated to onshore wind energy, with […]

Kerstine Appunn

Democracy
The fall of the House of Arslan: How a Lebanese political Newcomer ousted a Dynasty

The fall of the House of Arslan: How a Lebanese political Newcomer ousted a Dynasty

By Omar Boutine | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – On May 15, 2022, Lebanese voters cast their ballots in the first parliamentary elections to be […]

Global Voices

Immigration
A Decade of DACA Helped thousands of Young People; Advocates say More Needed

A Decade of DACA Helped thousands of Young People; Advocates say More Needed

By Daisy Gonzalez-Perez | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – It wasn’t a great job – dishwasher – but Mario Montoya was happy […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

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Al Jazeera: Image of Bullet that killed American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Proves it came from an Israeli M4

Al Jazeera: Image of Bullet that killed American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Proves it came from an Israeli M4

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera news network, based in Qatar, has received from the Palestine Authority an image of the bullet that […]

Juan Cole

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Why are States we don’t like ‘Regimes’ while friendly ones have ‘Governments’?

Why are States we don’t like ‘Regimes’ while friendly ones have ‘Governments’?

By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On Monday, recently-promoted White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, when mentioning US President Joe […]

Omar Ahmed

Climate Crisis
Now the Climate Emergency is changing Ocean Waves, Menacing Coasts with Rapid Erosion

Now the Climate Emergency is changing Ocean Waves, Menacing Coasts with Rapid Erosion

By Thomas Mortlock, Macquarie University; Adrean Webb, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Itxaso Odériz, Universidad de Cantabria; Nobuhito Mori, Kyoto University; Rodolfo Silva, Universidad Nacional Autónoma […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The emerging Paramilitary Wing of the Republican Party

The emerging Paramilitary Wing of the Republican Party

by J. Patrick Coolican, Minnesota Reformer | – It’s campaign season, which means Republican candidates for office wielding weapons and threatening to use them. Here’s […]

Minnesota Reformer

Domestic Terrorism
Did Trump try to Get VP Mike Pence Killed?

Did Trump try to Get VP Mike Pence Killed?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Jan. 6 Committee revealed on Thursday that Trump knew that the Capitol had been breached by his Oath Keeper […]

Juan Cole

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