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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East
Donald Trump

Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After thirty years of agitation, incitement, lies and provocation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally succeeded in […]

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

06/24/2025 By The Conversation

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

06/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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In Bid to Recapture Congress' Power to Declare War, Key Senate Committee advances Repeal of Iraq War Authorizations

In Bid to Recapture Congress’ Power to Declare War, Key Senate Committee advances Repeal of Iraq War Authorizations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trish Turner at ABC News reports that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to repeal the two Authorizations for […]

Juan Cole

Anti-Vaccination
Republican Governors have gone too Far in Banning Local Mask, Vaccine Mandates

Republican Governors have gone too Far in Banning Local Mask, Vaccine Mandates

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – With the Delta variant of Covid 19 now producing escalating case counts and hospitalizations, talk among pundits […]

John Buell

Bashar al-Assad
Does Renewed fighting in Syria's Deraa, Birthplace of the Revolution, Show Russia's Weakness?

Does Renewed fighting in Syria’s Deraa, Birthplace of the Revolution, Show Russia’s Weakness?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Russia is making an effort to prevent wide-scale hostilities in Syria’s southern province of Deraa. The Kremlin reportedly aims […]

Nikola Mikovic

China
What electric vehicle manufacturers can learn from China – their biggest market

What electric vehicle manufacturers can learn from China – their biggest market

By Youlin Huang, David Tyfield, Didier Soopramanien, and Lixian Qian | – Despite the pandemic, global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) increased by 43% in […]

The Conversation

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Trump's Tehran Poison Pill: US Trade Embargo provokes Iranian Attacks in Gulf, Making Return to Nuclear Deal Harder

Trump’s Tehran Poison Pill: US Trade Embargo provokes Iranian Attacks in Gulf, Making Return to Nuclear Deal Harder

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The BBC reports that a bitumen tanker, the MV Asphalt Princess, was boarded by nine men on Tuesday and hijacked. […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Lebanon: one year after Beirut explosion, failing state struggles amid poverty and sectarianism

Lebanon: one year after Beirut explosion, failing state struggles amid poverty and sectarianism

By John Nagle | – ( The Conversation) – Twelve months on from the disastrous port explosion which killed more than 200 people, injured thousands […]

The Conversation

Mental Health
Moral Injury and Forever Wars: The after-action Military Suicides Americans don’t Want to Hear About

Moral Injury and Forever Wars: The after-action Military Suicides Americans don’t Want to Hear About

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – This summer, it seemed as if we Americans couldn’t wait to return to our traditional July 4th […]

Tomdispatch

Authoritarianism
1/6 Committee: Can a Pinochet-Style Chilean Dictatorship be Forestalled in the United States?

1/6 Committee: Can a Pinochet-Style Chilean Dictatorship be Forestalled in the United States?

( Otherwords.org) – If you believe violence instead of voting is justified, I implore you to at least consider the alternative viewpoint. By Jill Richardson […]

Jill Richardson

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Living in the Dark: Palestinians in Gaza, besieged by Israel and deprived of Electricity, Can’t even Refrigerate their Food

Living in the Dark: Palestinians in Gaza, besieged by Israel and deprived of Electricity, Can’t even Refrigerate their Food

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Committee of the Red Cross has released a detailed study of life for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip […]

Juan Cole

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