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Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for  an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies
Donald Trump

Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies

Juan Cole

Like most things in Trumpworld these investment figures are pure fantasies, and it is disturbing that he is apparently making geopolitical policy

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The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

11/19/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

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In Turkey, Arrest of Pop Singer for Offending Clerics Prompts Fears of Turn to Fundamentalist Government

In Turkey, Arrest of Pop Singer for Offending Clerics Prompts Fears of Turn to Fundamentalist Government

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – Police in Turkey have arrested pop singer Gülşen (full name Gülşen Colakoglu), 46, pending trial, over a comment she made […]

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Climate Crisis
Why defusing ‘Carbon Bombs’ offers a promising new Agenda for tackling Climate Change

Why defusing ‘Carbon Bombs’ offers a promising new Agenda for tackling Climate Change

By Kjell Kühne, University of Leeds | – A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause […]

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Corruption
Empty Classified Document Folders at Trump's Office at Mar-a-Lago: Where did the Docs Go?

Empty Classified Document Folders at Trump’s Office at Mar-a-Lago: Where did the Docs Go?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday ordered the release of the inventory of US government documents seized by the […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Does Mideast Panopticon -- Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities -- foretell our Dystopian Future?

Does Mideast Panopticon — Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities — foretell our Dystopian Future?

By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
How Timber Cities could provide Climate Saving Solution for growing urban Populations

How Timber Cities could provide Climate Saving Solution for growing urban Populations

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – A large-scale transition to using wood for building construction in “timber cities” could avoid […]

Clean Energy Wire

Antisemitism
Unknown Holocaust photos – found in Attics and Archives – are helping Researchers recover lost Stories and providing a Tool against Denial

Unknown Holocaust photos – found in Attics and Archives – are helping Researchers recover lost Stories and providing a Tool against Denial

By Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Biden comes out Swinging against Trumpian, MAGA GOP as Authoritarian, Violent

Biden comes out Swinging against Trumpian, MAGA GOP as Authoritarian, Violent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden came out swinging in Philadelphia in a rare Thursday evening prime time address, denouncing the “MAGA Republican […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
Peace Literacy: Every Student Needs It

Peace Literacy: Every Student Needs It

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Philadelphia is “awash in guns”: More people were shot there in 2022, hundreds fatally, than in larger cities […]

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censorship
China: New UN Report Urges Accountability for Uyghurs, Alleges Crimes Against Humanity

China: New UN Report Urges Accountability for Uyghurs, Alleges Crimes Against Humanity

Human Rights Watch – (Geneva) – A groundbreaking United Nations report published on August 31, 2022, says the Chinese government has committed abuses that may […]

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