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Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran
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Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-Iranian War of 2025 has put Iraq in an extremely difficult situation. The country’s Shiite majority sympathizes with Iran […]

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

06/16/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

06/16/2025 By John Feffer

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Saudi Arabia
With 50K Yemenis starving to death and 3 mn displaced by War, Western Gov'ts still Back Saudi War

With 50K Yemenis starving to death and 3 mn displaced by War, Western Gov’ts still Back Saudi War

( OpenDemocracy.net ) – Two months ago, with the war in Yemen entering its seventh year, the UN secretary general, in his appeal to funders […]

Helen Lackner

Militarization
Endless War Is A Feature of Our National Programming: On Pulling the Plug on the War Machine

Endless War Is A Feature of Our National Programming: On Pulling the Plug on the War Machine

By William Astore | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I know, I know: President Joe Biden has announced that our combat troops will be withdrawn […]

William J. Astore

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90K Palestinians force Israeli Security to back down, allow them to Pray in Jerusalem, as nearly 100 are injured Protesting Ethnic Cleansing

90K Palestinians force Israeli Security to back down, allow them to Pray in Jerusalem, as nearly 100 are injured Protesting Ethnic Cleansing

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that despite the Israeli security forces’ attack on worshipers at al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday evening, some 90,000 […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Germany's Green Party is in the Lead, and sees Biden as climate ally on Blocking Russian Gas Pipeline

Germany’s Green Party is in the Lead, and sees Biden as climate ally on Blocking Russian Gas Pipeline

By Charlotte Nijhuis The co-leader of the German Greens, Annalena Baerbock, emphasised possibilities for closer cooperation between Germany and the U.S. on issues including climate […]

Clean Energy Wire

Iran
A Thaw in Coldest of Mideast Cold Wars? Saudi Arabia is suddenly talking to Iran

A Thaw in Coldest of Mideast Cold Wars? Saudi Arabia is suddenly talking to Iran

By Omid Shokri | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been strained in recent years. Both countries pursue […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Heating America: Nat’l Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. issues Stats on ‘Normal’ U.S. Weather; this isn’t It

Heating America: Nat’l Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. issues Stats on ‘Normal’ U.S. Weather; this isn’t It

By Russ Schumacher and Becky Bolinger | – Anyone who listens to weather reports has heard meteorologists comment that yesterday’s temperature was 3 degrees above […]

The Conversation

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Not "Clashes": Israeli Security Wounds Nearly 200 Palestinians in Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing Campaign at 3rd Holiest Islamic Site

Not “Clashes”: Israeli Security Wounds Nearly 200 Palestinians in Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing Campaign at 3rd Holiest Islamic Site

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Diya’ Hajj Yahya of Arab 48 reports that at least 180 Palestinians were injured Friday night by Israeli security forces […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Human Rights Watch Designating Israel's Crimes as Apartheid Is a Very Big Deal

Why Human Rights Watch Designating Israel’s Crimes as Apartheid Is a Very Big Deal

By Phyllis Bennis | – ( Commondreams ) – Human Rights Watch is the best-known and arguably the most influential among Washington elites of any […]

Phyllis Bennis

Authoritarianism
Fascism’s Global Spread is Real — As Real as the Spread of COVID-19

Fascism’s Global Spread is Real — As Real as the Spread of COVID-19

By Walden Bello | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the world’s largest democracies, far-right movements that embrace violence, reject democracy, and target […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Bernie Sanders Says US Must Not Be ‘Dragged Into Another Netanyahu War’

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Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major War – by striking Iran now? And what happens next?

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