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

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Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

By Taha Yasseri and Mary Sanford | – Ten years ago, when we ranked the most controversial articles on Wikipedia, George W. Bush was at […]

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Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian newspaper Quds gives the details of an attack this week by Israeli squatter-settlers on native Palestinians of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
UN:  Removal of Indigenous Population - 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

UN: Removal of Indigenous Population – 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

( Middle East Monitor) – Each year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise […]

Ramona Wadi

Afghanistan
Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

( Waging Noviolence ) – This week, Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook talk to Kathy Kelly, life-long nonviolence activist, co-founder of Voices for Creative […]

Waging Nonviolence

Afghanistan
“A Horrible Mistake”:  Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

“A Horrible Mistake”: Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

( Tomdispatch.com) – The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. The Washington Post […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Asian-Americans
Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican "Replacement Theory"

Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican “Replacement Theory”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dan Primack and Russell Contreras at Axios survey the ways in which the anti-Semitic, white supremacist “replacement theory” is being […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
For the First time, Israeli Apartheid was Broached in Congress by Rashida Tlaib - and then the Racist Epithets rained Down

For the First time, Israeli Apartheid was Broached in Congress by Rashida Tlaib – and then the Racist Epithets rained Down

( Middle East Monitor) – [It is rare] for Israeli apartheid to be raised as a topic of discussion in the US Congress. In fact, […]

Asa Winstanley

Afghanistan
For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

By Heather Barr | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – There is no better symbol for the disappearance of women’s rights in Afghanistan […]

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Avoiding water bankruptcy in the Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other

Avoiding water bankruptcy in the Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other

By Mojtaba Sadegh, Ali Mirchi, Amir AghaKouchak and Kaveh Madani | – The 2021 water year ends on Sept. 30, and it was another hot, […]

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