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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
Donald Trump

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 […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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

09/19/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Denialism
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

By Benjamin Franta | – Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Government defies President Biden, announces 3K new Squatter Dwellings on Palestinian Land

Israeli Government defies President Biden, announces 3K new Squatter Dwellings on Palestinian Land

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab48 reports that Israeli authorities are authorizing 3,144 new housing units for squatters on Palestinian-owned land in […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Is the Pandemic finally Subsiding in the Middle East?  New Infections at Lowest Level for More than a Year

Is the Pandemic finally Subsiding in the Middle East? New Infections at Lowest Level for More than a Year

( Al-Bab.com) – New Covid-19 cases recorded in the Middle East and North Africa averaged 19,075 a day last week. This is the first time […]

Brian Whitaker

Climate Crisis
How to Truly ‘Build Back Better’ on Climate

How to Truly ‘Build Back Better’ on Climate

This commentary was jointly produced by In These Times and Foreign Policy In Focus. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The infrastructure and budget reconciliation […]

Basav Sen

Climate Crisis
Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers

Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers

By Ruth Saint and Francesco Pomponi | – More than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in cities and urban areas. By 2050, […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Is Trump one of Top Mass Murderers? Dr. Birx says he Killed 130K- 160K with Bad COVID Policy

Is Trump one of Top Mass Murderers? Dr. Birx says he Killed 130K- 160K with Bad COVID Policy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In remarks this month to Congress, Dr. Deborah Birx, former member of Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force, estimated that […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70 Percent, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic

U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70 Percent, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic

By Chuck Collins | – (Institute for Policy Studies) – Sen. Wyden’s billionaires income tax tapping those huge returns could raise big revenue to fund […]

Institute for Policy Studies

Democracy
The Sudanese people overthrew dictatorship in 2019; Can the Generals undo the Revolution?

The Sudanese people overthrew dictatorship in 2019; Can the Generals undo the Revolution?

By David E Kiwuwa | – This week the head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, General Abdel Fattah El Burhan, declared the dissolution of the transitional […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Trump was aping Third World Dictators when he Tried to make his Coup

Trump was aping Third World Dictators when he Tried to make his Coup

( Tomdispatch.com) – As an eyewitness, I can recall the events of January 6th in Washington as if they were yesterday. The crowds of angry […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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