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Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with Concrete Sanctions if Gaza War is not Halted
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Britain, France and Canada threaten Israel with Concrete Sanctions if Gaza War is not Halted

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Britain, France and Canada issued a statement on Monday, demanding that the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu cease its military […]

Gaza faces Catastrophic Famine

Gaza faces Catastrophic Famine

05/20/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump Lifting Syria Sanctions is a win for Middle Power Turkey

Trump Lifting Syria Sanctions is a win for Middle Power Turkey

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Iraq's Barzani hails Syrian Leader's Assurances on future of Syrian Kurds

Iraq’s Barzani hails Syrian Leader’s Assurances on future of Syrian Kurds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria has broached again the issue of the largely Kurdish Autonomous Administration of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine

Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine

By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto (The Conversation) – Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian Stories” collection this October. This […]

The Conversation

Feminism
Iran Detains Singer Who Performed Without Head Scarf

Iran Detains Singer Who Performed Without Head Scarf

Update: Ms. Ahmadi was released from prison Sunday. She will face trial for the concert. By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ( RFE/ RL ) – Iranian […]

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How did we Get Here?  Excerpt from my new book “Gaza Yet Stands”

How did we Get Here? Excerpt from my new book “Gaza Yet Stands”

This is an excerpt from a draft of the introduction to my new book, Gaza Yet Stands, which briefly sketches how Israeli colonial policies turned […]

Juan Cole

Genocide
Genocide or Crimes Against Humanity? Amnesty Int’l’s Verdict on Israel’s War on Gaza

Genocide or Crimes Against Humanity? Amnesty Int’l’s Verdict on Israel’s War on Gaza

By Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza and increasingly violent acts against Palestinians […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Rising Desertification shows we can’t keep Farming with Fossil Fuels; 3/4s of Earth’s Land is Drier

Rising Desertification shows we can’t keep Farming with Fossil Fuels; 3/4s of Earth’s Land is Drier

By Jack Marley, The Conversation Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more extreme with […]

The Conversation

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Türkiye reaches 18.7 GW Photovoltaic Capacity, shows how Solar can meet Growing Air Conditioning demand

Türkiye reaches 18.7 GW Photovoltaic Capacity, shows how Solar can meet Growing Air Conditioning demand

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the paradoxes of human-made climate change is that as we heat up the planet by burning gasoline, coal […]

Juan Cole

Syria
The Turkish Role in Assad's Downfall: By supporting the rebels who overthrew the Syrian leader has Ankara bitten off more than it can chew?

The Turkish Role in Assad’s Downfall: By supporting the rebels who overthrew the Syrian leader has Ankara bitten off more than it can chew?

By Philip Balboni | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – After tenaciously holding on to power for more than a decade of war, the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Kurds
The self-governing Kurdish northeast of Syria comes under attack, with Country in Flux

The self-governing Kurdish northeast of Syria comes under attack, with Country in Flux

By Pinar Dinc, Lund University (The Conversation) – After more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 days to […]

The Conversation

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