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Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%
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Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But […]

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

08/12/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

08/12/2025 By The Conversation

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The Palestinian scramble to earn a living in Israeli-Occupied Gaza starts at school age

The Palestinian scramble to earn a living in Israeli-Occupied Gaza starts at school age

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The start of the new school year in the besieged Gaza Strip saw […]

Juan Cole

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The Accumulated Evil of the Whole: That time Bush and Co. made the September 11 Attacks a Pretext for War on Iraq

The Accumulated Evil of the Whole: That time Bush and Co. made the September 11 Attacks a Pretext for War on Iraq

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kyle Swenson at the Washington Post reported in 2018 that Floridian Ishnar Lopez-Ramos was in love, but her intended only […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
September 11 and the Debacle of ‘Nation-Building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

September 11 and the Debacle of ‘Nation-Building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Walden Bello | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – In one of his interviews before the Taliban retook Afghanistan, John Bolton, Trump’s […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

al-Qaeda
9/11 survivors’ exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

9/11 survivors’ exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

By Roberto Lucchini | – ( The Conversation) – The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

By Alie Komape | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When you do an online search for South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the […]

Middle East Monitor

al-Qaeda
Think Again: 9/11

Think Again: 9/11

“Think Again: 9/11,” by Juan Cole. Published in Foreign Policy No. 156 (Sep. – Oct., 2006), pp. 26-28, 30, 32. Copyright Foreign Policy, all rights […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government

Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government

By Hanif Sufizada | – Now that the Taliban have reportedly taken full control of Afghanistan and begun forming a government, a looming challenge awaits: […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
“That night, I became a climate Refugee:”  The Dixie Fire and our Hot Future

“That night, I became a climate Refugee:” The Dixie Fire and our Hot Future

ByJane Braxton Little | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – GREENVILLE, CA — At 10 a.m. on July 22nd, I interviewed a New York University professor about […]

Tomdispatch

Afghanistan
How Can America Wake Up From Its Post-9/11 Nightmare?

How Can America Wake Up From Its Post-9/11 Nightmare?

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | – ( Code Pink | – Looking back on it now, the 1990s were an age […]

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