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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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MAGA GOP Complains about Biden's "Semi-Fascism" Jibe; Also MAGA GOP: There will be Blood in the Streets

MAGA GOP Complains about Biden’s “Semi-Fascism” Jibe; Also MAGA GOP: There will be Blood in the Streets

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden told donors at a fundraising dinner a few days ago, “”The MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our […]

Juan Cole

Christianity
Expanding the Occupation of Palestinians in the Name of Jesus

Expanding the Occupation of Palestinians in the Name of Jesus

Most people agree that imperialism has been a very bad thing for the world. American Indian leader Dennis Means addressed a capacity crowd at the […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Afghanistan
End America's Collective Punishment of Afghans

End America’s Collective Punishment of Afghans

By Farrah Hassen | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – A year has now passed since the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from decades of war […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Arctic
What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise

What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise

By Alun Hubbard, University of Tromsø | – I’m standing at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, mesmerized by a mind-blowing scene of natural […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Netherlands innovates with Floating Solar Panels in Sea, Locally-owned Wind Farm Cooperative

Netherlands innovates with Floating Solar Panels in Sea, Locally-owned Wind Farm Cooperative

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Netherlands was long a laggard regarding the green energy revolution and combating the climate emergency, perhaps in part because […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
“Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia” – A Review

“Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia” – A Review

Bonn (Special to Informed Comment) – Review of Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (London: Pluto Press, 2022). “This book might make you uncomfortable, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Antisemitism
Has the Ukraine War Kicked off the 4th Modern Exodus of Jews from Russia?

Has the Ukraine War Kicked off the 4th Modern Exodus of Jews from Russia?

By Stephen Hall, University of Bath | – It’s not the first time that Jews have felt it necessary to flee Russia, but the invasion […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The White House Meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon: How Trump turned the American Dream into the American Scream

The White House Meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon: How Trump turned the American Dream into the American Scream

( Tomdispatch.com) – Honestly, if you had described this America to me more than half a century ago, I would have laughed in your face. […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Residents of Misafer Yatta -- Being Slowly Ethnically Cleansed by Israel --- take Refuge in Caves

Residents of Misafer Yatta — Being Slowly Ethnically Cleansed by Israel — take Refuge in Caves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli usurpation of nine Palestinian hamlets of Misafer Yatta near Hebron has driven some of the residents to shelter […]

Juan Cole

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