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A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio
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A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio

Joseph Richard Preville

A Review of Minister Without Portfolio: Memoir of a Reluctant Exile by Hooman Majd. Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Everybody needs a home. […]

Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions

Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions

09/05/2025 By The Conversation

Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?

Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?

09/05/2025 By Joshua Frank

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Israel/ Palestine
The Pain of Palestinians in Gaza

The Pain of Palestinians in Gaza

By Hamada Fara’na | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Even the Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy, couldn’t bear the tragic scene of thousands of […]

Middle East Monitor

Banking
Make them Pay Up: Pandora Leaks show that the Super-Rich rob Public of $200 bn a year in lost Tax Revenues

Make them Pay Up: Pandora Leaks show that the Super-Rich rob Public of $200 bn a year in lost Tax Revenues

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The rich have always flaunted their wealth. It was rarely good enough to enjoy financial success, you had […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

By Siddharth Joshi, James Glynn and Shivika Mittal | – Rooftop solar panels are up to 79% cheaper than they were in 2010. These plummeting […]

The Conversation

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Progressives in Congress: Biden must do More to End Saudi War on Yemen, as Starvation Stalks its Children

Progressives in Congress: Biden must do More to End Saudi War on Yemen, as Starvation Stalks its Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden says he wants to end the Yemen war, but eight months in, he has not made a dent […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
‘Sindyanna of Galilee’: Extending the olive branch between Arabs and Israelis

‘Sindyanna of Galilee’: Extending the olive branch between Arabs and Israelis

By Coco Cresswell | – ( Globalvoices.org) – In 1996 Hadas Lahav, a Jewish Israeli social activist, had a vision: a future of Arab-Israeli coexistence. […]

Global Voices

Government surveillance
I’ll be Watching You:  Military Dependents under Surveillance

I’ll be Watching You: Military Dependents under Surveillance

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I know what it means to be watched all too carefully, a phenomenon that’s only grown […]

Tomdispatch

Inequality
Could Lebanon, Looted and mismanaged by its Plutocrats, become a Failed State?

Could Lebanon, Looted and mismanaged by its Plutocrats, become a Failed State?

By Tony Walker | – In the midst of a pandemic that has wrenched the world off its axis, Lebanon’s precipitous decline has not received […]

The Conversation

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Epitaph for a Failed US Occupation: The Late Gen. Odierno's Arch-Nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq

Epitaph for a Failed US Occupation: The Late Gen. Odierno’s Arch-Nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The elections in Iraq have brought it briefly back into U.S. headlines, though it is a long time since Americans […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghan women have a long history of taking leadership and fighting for their rights

Afghan women have a long history of taking leadership and fighting for their rights

By Wazhmah Osman and Helena Zeweri | – Ever since the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, the question in much of the Western media has been, “What […]

The Conversation

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