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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Begins Disarmament after 47 Years of Conflict with Türkiye
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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Begins Disarmament after 47 Years of Conflict with Türkiye

Volkan Isbasaran

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]

A “Humanitarian City” of Ruins: The Final Displacement of Gaza

A “Humanitarian City” of Ruins: The Final Displacement of Gaza

07/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Solar Power: California Farmers identify a hot new Cash Crop

Solar Power: California Farmers identify a hot new Cash Crop

07/17/2025 By The Conversation

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The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed

The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed

By Alice Mah, University of Warwick | – This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the […]

The Conversation

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Taken for a Ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny Oil Increase, Despite Arms Sales, Fist Bump

Taken for a Ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny Oil Increase, Despite Arms Sales, Fist Bump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At its meeting in Vienna yesterday, the enlarged “+” version of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States (OPEC+) decided to […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
U.S. Lawmakers Demand Federal Scrutiny of How US Tech got into Turkey’s Drones

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Federal Scrutiny of How US Tech got into Turkey’s Drones

By Umar Farooq | – ( ProPublica ) – As countries around the globe add armed drones to their arsenals, federal lawmakers are pressing the […]

ProPublica

Dissent
Why the Storming of the Iraqi Parliament is no Moment of Liberation

Why the Storming of the Iraqi Parliament is no Moment of Liberation

By Haifa Zangana | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Why does the occupation of the Iraqi Parliament building in the Green Zone in […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Afghanistan a year after the Taliban Accupation: An ongoing War on Human Rights

Afghanistan a year after the Taliban Accupation: An ongoing War on Human Rights

By Ferdouse Asefi, University of Toronto | – The word “anniversary” usually brings about happy and memorable moments. But Aug. 15 marks one year since […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
A '22 Pink Wave for the Dems?  What does Surprise Kansas Rejection of anti-Abortion Amendment Mean for the Country?

A ’22 Pink Wave for the Dems? What does Surprise Kansas Rejection of anti-Abortion Amendment Mean for the Country?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a startling development, Kansas voters rejected a ballot initiative on August 2 that would have specified in the state […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Visa refusal to Palestinian Harvard Fellow sparks calls for Boycott of Apartheid State

Israel’s Visa refusal to Palestinian Harvard Fellow sparks calls for Boycott of Apartheid State

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has refused to grant a visa permit to one of Gaza’s highly acclaimed […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Angry White Guys in Big-Ass Pickups: Climate Change and Fragile Masculinity

Angry White Guys in Big-Ass Pickups: Climate Change and Fragile Masculinity

By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – In the United States during 16 months in 2020 and 2021, vehicles rammed into groups of protesters […]

Tomdispatch

Far Right
Fueled by virtually unrestricted Social Media Access, White Nationalism is on the Rise and attracting violent young White Men

Fueled by virtually unrestricted Social Media Access, White Nationalism is on the Rise and attracting violent young White Men

By Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University | – White nationalists keep showing up in the hearings of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, […]

The Conversation

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