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Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%
China

Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But […]

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

08/12/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

08/12/2025 By The Conversation

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Iran: 1988 Mass Executions Evident Crimes Against Humanity: Senior Officials Implicated Should Be Investigated, Fairly Prosecuted (HRW)

Iran: 1988 Mass Executions Evident Crimes Against Humanity: Senior Officials Implicated Should Be Investigated, Fairly Prosecuted (HRW)

Human Rights Watch — (Beirut) – Overwhelming evidence shows that the Iranian authorities’ mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 amounts to crimes […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
‘Open Your Hearts’: The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Leaders and Media Won’t

‘Open Your Hearts’: The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Leaders and Media Won’t

By Donna Katzin and William Minter | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Media, politicians, and policymakers tend to focus on the most visible […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Antarctica
Ice world: Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is under assault from below and losing its grip

Ice world: Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is under assault from below and losing its grip

By Ted Scambos, University of Colorado Boulder | – Flying over Antarctica, it’s hard to see what all the fuss is about. Like a gigantic […]

The Conversation

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Israel's Crisis in Parliament is a Crisis for its Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank

Israel’s Crisis in Parliament is a Crisis for its Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday evening, the government of Naftali Bennett in Israel failed to pass a crucial law in parliament, according to […]

Juan Cole

Guns
What Can Be Said After So Much Grief, so Many Guns?

What Can Be Said After So Much Grief, so Many Guns?

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What more can be said with so much grief, after the spate of recent gun violence around the […]

Hugh J. Curran

Iran
'New Phase Of Assassinations': Mysterious Death Of Iranian Aerospace Engineer Fuels Speculation

‘New Phase Of Assassinations’: Mysterious Death Of Iranian Aerospace Engineer Fuels Speculation

( RFE/RL ) – When Iranian aerospace engineer Ayoob Entezari died on May 31, authorities handed his family a letter of appreciation in which they […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Far Right
Let’s avoid the Other F-Word: If it is Democracies versus Fascism, We’re Stuck in Forever Wars

Let’s avoid the Other F-Word: If it is Democracies versus Fascism, We’re Stuck in Forever Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History at Yale University, is a scholar of surpassing brilliance. His 2010 book Bloodlands: Europe Between […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Climate Crisis
Biden's Green New Deal: 100 Gigawatts of New Solar, in Biggest Energy Program since FDR's TVA

Biden’s Green New Deal: 100 Gigawatts of New Solar, in Biggest Energy Program since FDR’s TVA

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden just launched a series of executive orders and other measures for solar energy that have the potential to […]

Juan Cole

International Criminal Court
Libya:  Russia's Far Right Wagner Group set Landmines, Booby Traps near Capital, Tripoli

Libya: Russia’s Far Right Wagner Group set Landmines, Booby Traps near Capital, Tripoli

International Criminal Court Must Investigate

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