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Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar
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Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bombed the building being used by civilian Hamas negotiators in Doha, Qatar, […]

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

09/10/2025 By The Conversation

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

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The Other Big Lie: For 30 Years, we’ve sent our Troops into Unwinnable Wars

The Other Big Lie: For 30 Years, we’ve sent our Troops into Unwinnable Wars

( Tomdispatch.com) – “The thirty-year interregnum of U.S. global hegemony,” writes David Bromwich in the journal Raritan, “has been exposed as a fraud, a decoy, […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Anti-Vaccination
Demented DeSantis denounces "Hysteria" over Florida Hospitals Filling up with Covid-19 Victims, rejects Masks, Vaccine Mandates

Demented DeSantis denounces “Hysteria” over Florida Hospitals Filling up with Covid-19 Victims, rejects Masks, Vaccine Mandates

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Just like the noble from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who read so many chivalric romances that he […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Congress
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

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