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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 […]

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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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Gigi Hadid’s Palestine Pledge and ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: The Great Vogue Controversy

Gigi Hadid’s Palestine Pledge and ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: The Great Vogue Controversy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arab News reports that Vogue did an instagram posting about model Gigi Hadid’s pledge to donate her fall earnings […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Revolution and Exile:  A Poignant New Memoir of Iran

Revolution and Exile: A Poignant New Memoir of Iran

Review by Fariba Amini. Neda Toloui-Semnani, They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of my Parents, New York: Little A, 2022. Newark, Delaware (Special to […]

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Israel/ Palestine
While world focuses on plight of Ukraine's children, endless trauma of Gaza's children should not be ignored

While world focuses on plight of Ukraine’s children, endless trauma of Gaza’s children should not be ignored

( Jordan Times ) – More than two million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded that country. The majority have been women and children […]

Michael Jansen

China
The New Eurasian Wars on our Endangered Planet

The New Eurasian Wars on our Endangered Planet

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Just as the relentless grinding of the earth’s tectonic plates produces earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, so the endless superpower struggle for […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
Oil Sheikhs have us Behind the 8-Ball: The UAE’s mixed Signals on Oil underline need for US to move Rapidly to Green Transportation

Oil Sheikhs have us Behind the 8-Ball: The UAE’s mixed Signals on Oil underline need for US to move Rapidly to Green Transportation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – America is paying the price for lagging behind in its adoption of electric vehicles and in putting in more electric […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Ukraine, Libya, and the Enduring Global Disorder

Ukraine, Libya, and the Enduring Global Disorder

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – According to some analyses, the ongoing war in Ukraine appears to have finally put to rest the illusion […]

Sabina Henneberg

Russia
Russia in Ukraine: Is Turkey’s neutrality Option Viable?

Russia in Ukraine: Is Turkey’s neutrality Option Viable?

By Omar Kosh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Turkish politicians waited for several days before describing the events in Ukraine as a […]

Middle East Monitor

Russia
Why Apple, Disney, IKEA and hundreds of other Western companies are abandoning Russia with barely a shrug

Why Apple, Disney, IKEA and hundreds of other Western companies are abandoning Russia with barely a shrug

By Douglas Schuler and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons | – Many companies in the U.S. and elsewhere have been quick to sever ties to Russia – […]

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Ukraine: What the Libya War tells us about Why we Really don't want a NATO No-Fly Zone

Ukraine: What the Libya War tells us about Why we Really don’t want a NATO No-Fly Zone

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tracy Wilkinson at the Los Angeles Times writes about the no-fly zone proposed by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and […]

Juan Cole

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