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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 […]

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn't

Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mursi Abu Tawq at Al-Zaman (The Times“) in Baghdad reports that President Joe Biden on Monday announced that the US […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government

Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the freedom of Jews to […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Ben and Jerry's Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too

Ben and Jerry’s Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too

By Sari Bashi | Special Advisor, Program Office | – Published in: Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) ( Human Rights Watch ) – […]

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Climate Crisis
Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

By Scott Denning | – ( The Conversation) – Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada […]

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Authoritarianism
Tunisia's President just made the kind of Coup Trump and US Republicans plotted (and are plotting) Against President Biden

Tunisia’s President just made the kind of Coup Trump and US Republicans plotted (and are plotting) Against President Biden

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the prime minister, prorogued parliament for 30 days, stripped parliamentarians of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Living on a Newly Unrecognizable Planet

Living on a Newly Unrecognizable Planet

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Germany is a wealthy nation. Its business and political leaders accept the reality of climate change and […]

John Buell

Israel/ Palestine
Beita is only south Nablus town that lacks an illegal Israeli settlement and Palestinians want to Keep it that Way

Beita is only south Nablus town that lacks an illegal Israeli settlement and Palestinians want to Keep it that Way

By Anjuman Rahman | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Beita is the only village around southern Nablus that does not have an illegal […]

Middle East Monitor

Islamophobia
Fifteen years ago we shrugged off anti-Muslim hate speech. Have we evolved?

Fifteen years ago we shrugged off anti-Muslim hate speech. Have we evolved?

By Richard Moon | – In 2007, Macleans magazine published an excerpt from a book, America Alone, in which author Mark Steyn raised the alarm […]

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Climate Crisis Grips Iran with Water Shortages, Provoking Protests, Clashes in Southwest

Climate Crisis Grips Iran with Water Shortages, Provoking Protests, Clashes in Southwest

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan region, the center of its petroleum industry, has been wracked with protests for a week, in part […]

Juan Cole

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