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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

11/19/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Israel/ Palestine
No, America, the UN Human Rights Council Report on Israeli Violations against Palestinians isn’t the Obstacle to Peace

No, America, the UN Human Rights Council Report on Israeli Violations against Palestinians isn’t the Obstacle to Peace

( Middle East Monitor ) – The UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry recently released report on the violations in the occupied Palestinian territory […]

Ramona Wadi

Far Right
Regardless of seditious conspiracy charges’ outcome, groups like Proud Boys seek to build a white nation

Regardless of seditious conspiracy charges’ outcome, groups like Proud Boys seek to build a white nation

By Matthew Valasik, University of Alabama; and Shannon Reid, University of North Carolina – Charlotte | – As the House Select Committee prepares to begin […]

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Education
What Does It Mean that Women Now Dominate Higher Education?

What Does It Mean that Women Now Dominate Higher Education?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the last week of her life, my mother extracted a promise from me. “Make sure,” she said, “that Orion goes […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
European Parliament bans New Gasoline Cars in 13 Years for 449 Million People, to fight Climate Emergency and Russia

European Parliament bans New Gasoline Cars in 13 Years for 449 Million People, to fight Climate Emergency and Russia

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Margaux Otter at L’Obs reports that on Wednesday, the European Parliament voted to ban the sale of new internal combustion […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
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

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