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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”

09/19/2025 By contributors

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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Sordid Advantage: America can't avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Sordid Advantage: America can’t avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t […]

Juan Cole

China
The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War

The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War

( Tomdispatch.com) – This summer we witnessed, with brutal clarity, the Beginning of the End: the end of Earth as we know it — a […]

Michael T. Klare

Armenia
After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?

After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( GlobalVoices.org) – Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 during the first Karabakh war in a show of […]

Global Voices

Employment
How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize

How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize

By Arvind Magesan | – Applied economists spend a large fraction of their time trying to squeeze meaningful answers — causal effects — out of […]

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Band of 30 militant Israeli Squatters attack Palestinian Farmers, Steal Olive Harvest in continued Sabotage that has seen 1 mn Olive Trees destroyed by Israelis since 1967

Band of 30 militant Israeli Squatters attack Palestinian Farmers, Steal Olive Harvest in continued Sabotage that has seen 1 mn Olive Trees destroyed by Israelis since 1967

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, some thirty militant Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives from […]

Juan Cole

Germany
Germany: Tesla's Electric Car sales overtake leading domestic automakers in September

Germany: Tesla’s Electric Car sales overtake leading domestic automakers in September

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Tesla is flying high in Germany: In September, more electric Tesla Model 3s were registered […]

Clean Energy Wire

Hizbullah
Violence has broken out in Beirut Again, but it isn't Senseless - it is caused by what Lebanon has not Done

Violence has broken out in Beirut Again, but it isn’t Senseless – it is caused by what Lebanon has not Done

By Lama Fakih, Crisis and Conflict Division | – ( Human Rights Watch) – Scenes from Lebanon shocked residents and the world on Thursday when […]

Human Rights Watch

Houthi
Yemen: Will talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran offer hopes for an end to bitter seven-year civil war?

Yemen: Will talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran offer hopes for an end to bitter seven-year civil war?

By Simon Mabon | – Recent statements from Iran and Saudi Arabia have provided hope that a pathway might be emerging to an end to […]

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Is Sec. of State Antony Blinken as bad as Mike Pompeo?  Silent on Israeli theft of Palestinian Land, Promoting Phony Abraham Accords

Is Sec. of State Antony Blinken as bad as Mike Pompeo? Silent on Israeli theft of Palestinian Land, Promoting Phony Abraham Accords

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken is shaping up to be as much of a disaster as secretary of state as […]

Juan Cole

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