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Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing
China

Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Hamdullah Baycar

Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

07/04/2025 By Daanish Faruqi

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

07/04/2025 By Arnold R. Isaacs

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Zelensky says Russia is the new ISIL: Top 3 Ways he may be Right

Zelensky says Russia is the new ISIL: Top 3 Ways he may be Right

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an address on Tuesday to the United Nations Security Council, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky compared Russia to the ISIL […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Responsibility for the Invasion of Ukraine and for Climate Change

Responsibility for the Invasion of Ukraine and for Climate Change

Kalamazoo, MI (Special to Informed Comment) – Many are rightly celebrating a resurgence of liberalism as the Free World rallies against Putin’s war of choice. […]

Paul Clements

Israel/ Palestine
Israel has Deprived Palestinians of Right to Choose Int’l Scholars and Students for Palestinian Universities: MESA

Israel has Deprived Palestinians of Right to Choose Int’l Scholars and Students for Palestinian Universities: MESA

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association of North America: Letter protesting new Israel Government directive regarding selection of international scholars and students to […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Inequality
It Goes up but Never Comes Down: What Would It Take to Reduce US Military Spending?

It Goes up but Never Comes Down: What Would It Take to Reduce US Military Spending?

( Tomdispatch.com) – I have a question for you: What would it take in today’s world for America’s military spending to go down? Here’s one […]

William J. Astore

Bashar al-Assad
Yes, Bucha is a War Crime: Putin Told us who He was in East Aleppo

Yes, Bucha is a War Crime: Putin Told us who He was in East Aleppo

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Russian withdrawal from the small town of Bucha near the capital of Kyiv left behind a raft of murdered […]

Juan Cole

History
The Dangers of Assaulting Fortress Kyiv: The Peril Putin's Troops Now Face was Shown by the Battles of Stalingrad, Grozny, and Mosul

The Dangers of Assaulting Fortress Kyiv: The Peril Putin’s Troops Now Face was Shown by the Battles of Stalingrad, Grozny, and Mosul

Brian Glyn Williams (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) and Aaron Rawley. Aaron Rawley is Volunteer Personnel Coordinator at the Gore Place Historical Museum, Waltham Mass. Dartmouth, […]

Brian Glyn Williams

Authoritarianism
Facing severe Repression, Russians are turning to antiwar Graffiti

Facing severe Repression, Russians are turning to antiwar Graffiti

By Colleen Wood and Alexis Lerner | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – It is exceedingly difficult to organize peaceful protests in Russia. Since the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Human Rights
What are War Crimes?  Ukraine Atrocities and the Likelihood of Prosecuting Putin

What are War Crimes? Ukraine Atrocities and the Likelihood of Prosecuting Putin

By Amy Lieberman, The Conversation, interviewing Abel Escribà-Folch, Alexander Hinton, Joseph Wright and Shelley Inglis | – Russian troops retreated from Kyiv and the nearby […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
White House OMB: Climate Crisis to cost US $2 trillion Each and Every Year in 8 Decades

White House OMB: Climate Crisis to cost US $2 trillion Each and Every Year in 8 Decades

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Timothy Gardner at Reuters has gotten an advance look at a White House Office of Management and Budget document that […]

Juan Cole

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