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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

06/23/2025 By The Conversation

No Kings!  This is What Democracy Looks Like

No Kings! This is What Democracy Looks Like

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The Republican Party's flirtation with Fascism is becoming a Marriage

The Republican Party’s flirtation with Fascism is becoming a Marriage

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Republicans love to hijack democratic and progressive concepts, such as “free speech,” and apply them in a hyperbolic […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Afghanistan
Afghanistan should be Last U.S. War of Empire, Corruption and Poverty

Afghanistan should be Last U.S. War of Empire, Corruption and Poverty

( Code Pink) – Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban’s return to power in […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Afghanistan
The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy

The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy

By Margaret Hu | In the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and the ouster of the Afghan national government, alarming reports indicate that […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Ida: The Climate Emergency and Fossil Fuels, not Afghan terrorists, just Knocked out Power to America's 4th-Largest Port

Ida: The Climate Emergency and Fossil Fuels, not Afghan terrorists, just Knocked out Power to America’s 4th-Largest Port

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The two big stories on Sunday, of the continued evacuation effort at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, and […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The same MAGA mob Who supported Insurrection are Smearing pro-American Afghan Refugees as Dangerous

The same MAGA mob Who supported Insurrection are Smearing pro-American Afghan Refugees as Dangerous

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Stoking fear of Afghan refugees, Stephen Miller — architect of Trump’s ethno-nationalist agenda — used the Afghanistan withdrawal and […]

Dan Dinello

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Who’s Who in the Taliban’s ‘inclusive’ new Administration

Afghanistan: Who’s Who in the Taliban’s ‘inclusive’ new Administration

By Amalendu Misra | – ( The Conversation) – As western powers frantically scramble to evacuate their citizens and the Afghan nationals who worked for […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Let’s Take the Profit Out of War

Let’s Take the Profit Out of War

By Sam Pizzigati | – ( Otherwords.org) – After all, we grew up living it or hearing about it. The 20th century rates as the […]

Sam Pizzigati

Afghanistan
Biden got 117,000 Afghans Out: Contrast that Time Trump Abruptly Withdrew Troops from Syria and refused to Help Kurdish Allies

Biden got 117,000 Afghans Out: Contrast that Time Trump Abruptly Withdrew Troops from Syria and refused to Help Kurdish Allies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Richard N. Ojeda, an Army vet and former West Virginia state representative tweeted out an observation that I would like […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Are Coal Plants even Legal, given dire Climate Impact?  German Court rules Planners Must Consider Alternatives

Are Coal Plants even Legal, given dire Climate Impact? German Court rules Planners Must Consider Alternatives

German court rules against coal-fired Datteln 4 plant

Clean Energy Wire

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