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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Begins Disarmament after 47 Years of Conflict with Türkiye
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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Begins Disarmament after 47 Years of Conflict with Türkiye

Volkan Isbasaran

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]

A “Humanitarian City” of Ruins: The Final Displacement of Gaza

A “Humanitarian City” of Ruins: The Final Displacement of Gaza

07/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Solar Power: California Farmers identify a hot new Cash Crop

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No, WSJ, Taliban are not important to the Muslim battle of ideas  -- as Moroccan elections bring crushing defeat of religious party

No, WSJ, Taliban are not important to the Muslim battle of ideas — as Moroccan elections bring crushing defeat of religious party

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan has provoked a tidal wave of punditry about what it says […]

Juan Cole

Flooding
After Hurricane Ida, mutual aid provides safety and survival in New Orleans

After Hurricane Ida, mutual aid provides safety and survival in New Orleans

By Jordan Flaherty | – ( Waging Nonviolence) | – In the aftermath of disasters, those most in need are also who the state often […]

Waging Nonviolence

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Taliban Severely Beat Journalists:  New Restrictions Indicate Crackdown on Free Speech (HRW)

Afghanistan: Taliban Severely Beat Journalists: New Restrictions Indicate Crackdown on Free Speech (HRW)

Human Rights Watch | -(New York) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have been detaining and assaulting journalists and imposing new restrictions on media work, Human […]

Human Rights Watch

Epidemics
Israel was a leader in the COVID vaccination race – so why are cases spiralling there?

Israel was a leader in the COVID vaccination race – so why are cases spiralling there?

By Michael Head | – Israel has been one of the focal points of the pandemic in 2021 owing to its rapid rollout of COVID-19 […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
America's Lost Causes:  Misty-eyed Nostalgia for Bounty Hunters, Slave-Holding and Wife-beating

America’s Lost Causes: Misty-eyed Nostalgia for Bounty Hunters, Slave-Holding and Wife-beating

We have a conflagration of “Lost Causes” in America. Some people in the South still revere the Confederate leaders who betrayed the United States during […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Climate Crisis
After Ida, Joe Biden calls Code Red on Climate Emergency, Ridicules 'Free Enterprise' argument for Living under Flood Waters

After Ida, Joe Biden calls Code Red on Climate Emergency, Ridicules ‘Free Enterprise’ argument for Living under Flood Waters

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden is a late and incomplete convert to the immediate and extreme dangers of the climate emergency. Originally […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Who is Mullah Hasan Akhund? What does the Taliban’s choice of interim prime minister mean for Afghanistan?

Who is Mullah Hasan Akhund? What does the Taliban’s choice of interim prime minister mean for Afghanistan?

By Ali A. Olomi | – The Taliban announced on Sept. 7, 2021, that Mullah Hasan Akhund has been appointed interim prime minister of Afghanistan. […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Post-Afghanistan, Nation (Un)Building Comes Home

Post-Afghanistan, Nation (Un)Building Comes Home

( Tomdispatch.com) – They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” Indeed, that cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it […]

Tom Engelhardt

African-Americans
Southern White Male GOP Voter Suppression, anti-Abortion Laws are ways of reviving Jim Crow and expanding it to White Women

Southern White Male GOP Voter Suppression, anti-Abortion Laws are ways of reviving Jim Crow and expanding it to White Women

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – African-Americans have complained about the tendency of commentators to compare political suppression and regressive policies of white Republicans to slavery. […]

Juan Cole

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