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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

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Turkish Online Censorship Ramps up, Targeting Sites Critical of the Government or the President

Turkish Online Censorship Ramps up, Targeting Sites Critical of the Government or the President

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Written in 1953, the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a future where books […]

Global Voices

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Why the Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

Why the Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

By Ronald Sullivan | – In a two-week trial that reignited debate over self-defense laws across the nation, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for […]

The Conversation

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To Avoid another War Biden must get US Troops, caught in Israel-Iran Crossfire, out of Syria

To Avoid another War Biden must get US Troops, caught in Israel-Iran Crossfire, out of Syria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman at the New York Times report that a drone strike on a US base in […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Fiddling at the Death of Democracy:  The Media and Democrats need to confront our Dr. Strangelove Moment

Fiddling at the Death of Democracy: The Media and Democrats need to confront our Dr. Strangelove Moment

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – We learned from Dr. Strangelove that all it takes to blow up the world is one sexually insecure […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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Authoritarian Quadrangle: How the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Egypt and Israel undermine Democracy in the Middle East

Authoritarian Quadrangle: How the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Egypt and Israel undermine Democracy in the Middle East

By Gilbert Achkar | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – From the middle of the 20th century until the first decade of the 21st, […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Ours won’t be the new American Century or the Chinese Century but that of Catastrophic Climate Change

Ours won’t be the new American Century or the Chinese Century but that of Catastrophic Climate Change

( Tomdispatch.com) – When the leaders of more than 100 nations gathered in Glasgow for the U.N. climate conference last week, there was much discussion […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
Startling Transformation: California has 1 mn. EVs on road, as they become state's No. 1 Export

Startling Transformation: California has 1 mn. EVs on road, as they become state’s No. 1 Export

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On, Monday, Juliet Eilperin, the environment editor at the Washington Post hosted a live event that included the Energy Commissioner […]

Juan Cole

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Justin Bieber and Others Should Speak Out on Human Rights at Saudi Arabia’s Grand Prix

Justin Bieber and Others Should Speak Out on Human Rights at Saudi Arabia’s Grand Prix

Jason Derulo, A$AP Rocky Also Among Celebrities Slated to Perform

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Visiting Tabaneh, where Palestinians under Israeli Occupation travel 4 hours to get Healthcare

Visiting Tabaneh, where Palestinians under Israeli Occupation travel 4 hours to get Healthcare

( Middle East Monitor) – Before the Separation Wall was built around East Jerusalem it was easy for residents of Tabaneh village in the West […]

Middle East Monitor

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