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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Arms Sales
Arsenal of Autocracy?    The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine

Arsenal of Autocracy? The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just in Ukraine

By William D. Hartung | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – These are good times to be an arms maker. Not only are tens of billions of […]

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Carbon Footprint
Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell Consultant to Resign over Company's Bad Faith on Climate Emergency, Call for More Resignations

Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell Consultant to Resign over Company’s Bad Faith on Climate Emergency, Call for More Resignations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a letter of resignation to the Shell executive committee that she posted to her Linkedin page, Caroline Dennett, the […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests: Attempt to Suppress Growing Social Movements

Iran: Arrests Amid Economic Protests: Attempt to Suppress Growing Social Movements

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have arrested several prominent activists on baseless accusations amid labor union strikes and ongoing protests against rising […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Right of return: The Nakba (1948 Calamity) is back on Palestinian Agenda

Right of return: The Nakba (1948 Calamity) is back on Palestinian Agenda

( Middle East Monitor ) – For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the […]

Ramzy Baroud

Food Insecurity
War in Ukraine is pushing global acute Hunger to the highest Level in this Century

War in Ukraine is pushing global acute Hunger to the highest Level in this Century

By Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University | – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced a terrible humanitarian crisis in eastern Europe. It also is worsening conditions […]

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Saudi Arabia Snubs US, Rejects Russia Boycott, as Rumors Fly Biden may meet with the Crown Prince

Saudi Arabia Snubs US, Rejects Russia Boycott, as Rumors Fly Biden may meet with the Crown Prince

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as the possibility of a visit to Riyadh by President Joe Biden after his upcoming trip to Israel is […]

Juan Cole

Iran
The Geopolitics and Diplomacy of US–Iran Relations by Monshipouri  – Review

The Geopolitics and Diplomacy of US–Iran Relations by Monshipouri – Review

Book Review – Mahmood Monshipouri, In the Shadow of Mistrust: (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Bonn (Special to Informed Comment) – Sixteen months have passed […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Convivencia: Pushing for Peace and Coexistence for all in Israel/Palestine

Convivencia: Pushing for Peace and Coexistence for all in Israel/Palestine

By Faisal Bodi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – One of the many myths underpinning western support for Israel’s colonisation of Palestine is […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Is the Climate Emergency being Turbocharged by the Ukraine War?

Is the Climate Emergency being Turbocharged by the Ukraine War?

By Michael Klare | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come […]

Michael T. Klare

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