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Saudi Arabia in Modern History
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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

08/14/2025 By Global Voices

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

08/14/2025 By The Conversation

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Despite Departure from Afghanistan, America still Has an Archipelago of 750 Military Bases around the World

Despite Departure from Afghanistan, America still Has an Archipelago of 750 Military Bases around the World

By Patterson Deppen | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was the spring of 2003 during the American-led invasion of Iraq. I was in second […]

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Afghanistan
Public Opinion largely Supportive of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal, despite Angst over Chaotic Process

Public Opinion largely Supportive of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, despite Angst over Chaotic Process

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The abrupt collapse of the government of President Ashraf Ghani and his supposed 300,000 security forces in the past two […]

Juan Cole

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From farm to table, immigrants feed America

From farm to table, immigrants feed America

By Lauren Irwin, Natalie Saenz and Priya Bhat/News21 ( Cronkite News ) – As the sun beats down on a family farm in McFarland, California, […]

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Afghanistan
Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?

Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?

By Arie Perliger | – The speed and efficiency with which Taliban forces were able to complete the occupation of most of Afghanistan, as well […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Afghanistan is not the only place at risk of takeover by extremists: US has Dangerous Homegrown Radicals trying to Overthrow our Government

Afghanistan is not the only place at risk of takeover by extremists: US has Dangerous Homegrown Radicals trying to Overthrow our Government

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – It’s as if a sudden natural disaster has just struck Afghanistan. The scenes from the capital Kabul reflect the […]

John Feffer

Afghanistan
Taliban “Islam” versus the Islam of the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an

Taliban “Islam” versus the Islam of the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – British academic Abdul-Azim Ahmed of Cardiff University, an expert on mosques in the UK, complained on Twitter that he was […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Don’t use girls as justification for bombing Afghanistan, again

Don’t use girls as justification for bombing Afghanistan, again

Dear British feminists, Western military intervention is never a good thing

Open Democracy

Afghanistan
Afghanistan only the latest US war to be driven by deceit and delusion

Afghanistan only the latest US war to be driven by deceit and delusion

By Gordon Adams | – In Afghanistan, American hubris – the United States’ capacity for self-delusion and official lying – has struck once again, as […]

The Conversation

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Debt and Disillusionment: Neoliberalism’s Unfair burden on this Generation of College Students

Debt and Disillusionment: Neoliberalism’s Unfair burden on this Generation of College Students

( Tomdispatch.com ) – For the last decade and a half, I’ve been teaching ethics to undergraduates. Now — admittedly, a little late to the […]

Rebecca Gordon

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