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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

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Guns
How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 Ban on Machine Guns to blocking nearly all firearm Restrictions Today

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 Ban on Machine Guns to blocking nearly all firearm Restrictions Today

By Robert Spitzer, State University of New York College at Cortland | – The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary […]

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Far Right
When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit

When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 21 are dead in another mass shooting, including 19 schoolchildren. The white slavers of the Old Souoth used to call […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
As Biden heads to Israel, Bennett announces 4,427 New Squatter Units on Palestinian Land; State Department Tut-Tuts

As Biden heads to Israel, Bennett announces 4,427 New Squatter Units on Palestinian Land; State Department Tut-Tuts

( Middle East Monitor ) – “In the face of enemy violence, the Zionist answer has always been settlement, security and immigration,” Israeli Prime Minister […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
Climate Change: radical Activists benefit social Movements – History shows Why

Climate Change: radical Activists benefit social Movements – History shows Why

By Heather Alberro, Nottingham Trent University | – Wynn Bruce set himself on fire on April 22 2022 – Earth Day. His self-immolation in front […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Arsenal of Autocracy?    The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine

Arsenal of Autocracy? The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine

By William D. Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – These are good times to be an arms maker. Not only are tens of billions of […]

William D. Hartung

Carbon Footprint
Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell Consultant to Resign over Company's Bad Faith on Climate Emergency, Call for More Resignations

Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell Consultant to Resign over Company’s Bad Faith on Climate Emergency, Call for More Resignations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a letter of resignation to the Shell executive committee that she posted to her Linkedin page, Caroline Dennett, the […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests: Attempt to Suppress Growing Social Movements

Iran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests: Attempt to Suppress Growing Social Movements

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have arrested several prominent activists on baseless accusations amid labor union strikes and ongoing protests against rising […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Right of return: The Nakba (1948 Calamity) is back on Palestinian Agenda

Right of return: The Nakba (1948 Calamity) is back on Palestinian Agenda

( Middle East Monitor ) – For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the […]

Ramzy Baroud

Food Insecurity
War in Ukraine is pushing global acute Hunger to the highest Level in this Century

War in Ukraine is pushing global acute Hunger to the highest Level in this Century

By Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University | – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced a terrible humanitarian crisis in eastern Europe. It also is worsening conditions […]

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