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We’re All Palestinians Now: How Trump is Middle-Easternizing the United States
Donald Trump

We’re All Palestinians Now: How Trump is Middle-Easternizing the United States

Juan Cole

Here is my most recent column for the legendary Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch.com.Be sure to check out his searing introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The United […]

Historic Int’l Court of Justice Ruling: Climate Change ‘Imperils all Life’ — Polluters may be Sued

Historic Int’l Court of Justice Ruling: Climate Change ‘Imperils all Life’ — Polluters may be Sued

07/25/2025 By The Conversation

The Unseen War for the Palestinian West Bank’s Future: It’s not just Gaza

The Unseen War for the Palestinian West Bank’s Future: It’s not just Gaza

07/25/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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International Court of Justice
Sudan takes UAE to Int’l Court of Justice for Genocide: A Test for Int’l Justice

Sudan takes UAE to Int’l Court of Justice for Genocide: A Test for Int’l Justice

The case comes amid growing global scrutiny of UAE military alliances, including its deepening ties with Israel despite accusations of genocide in Gaza Written byWalid […]

Global Voices

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European CO2 Emissions keep Plummeting, as 47% of Electricity is Green

European CO2 Emissions keep Plummeting, as 47% of Electricity is Green

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 27 countries of the European Union, with a population of about 450 million, produce 3.9 billion metric tons of […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Can the Middle East escape Western Media Hegemony and Thomas Friedman?

Can the Middle East escape Western Media Hegemony and Thomas Friedman?

( Middle East Monitor ) – The website of a certain pan-Arab media organisation seems to be fixated on translating, commenting or briefing its audience […]

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
Saudi Arabia, Rehabilitated, is Mediator in Ukraine War, and maybe with Iran

Saudi Arabia, Rehabilitated, is Mediator in Ukraine War, and maybe with Iran

By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University (The Conversation) – Saudi Arabia is 2,000 miles from Ukraine and even more politically distant, so at first glance […]

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal:  UN

Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal: UN

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An independent UN commission has found that “Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against […]

Juan Cole

Academic Freedom
The Trump Administration is an Existential Threat to Academic Freedom and Higher Education: Middle East Studies Assn.

The Trump Administration is an Existential Threat to Academic Freedom and Higher Education: Middle East Studies Assn.

Board of Directors, the Middle East Studies Association The second Trump administration has ushered in an existential threat to academic freedom and higher education in […]

Middle East Studies Association

Authoritarianism
Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime

Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime

By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness […]

Tomdispatch

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The Right Wing Israeli pro-Settler attack on the Oscar-winning “No Other Land”

The Right Wing Israeli pro-Settler attack on the Oscar-winning “No Other Land”

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The efforts to discredit and suppress the film No Other Land are part and parcel of a […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Syria
After mass Killings in Syria, can a fragmented Country stay United?

After mass Killings in Syria, can a fragmented Country stay United?

By Ali Mamouri, Deakin University Shortly after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, the new government led by rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa pledged […]

The Conversation

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