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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Trump:  Is the World on the Brink of a Major Disaster?
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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Trump: Is the World on the Brink of a Major Disaster?

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The reports of the past few days are extremely worrying. The acrimonious and open split between President Donald […]

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

06/07/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism

06/07/2025 By The Conversation

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How the son of a Lebanese Migrant and Street Sweeper became Brazil's first Muslim Federal Judge

How the son of a Lebanese Migrant and Street Sweeper became Brazil’s first Muslim Federal Judge

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Ali Mazloum is one of millions of migrants whose story illustrates the determination and […]

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Donald Trump
The Donald won’t be in Office Long, but will he be more Dangerous out of it?

The Donald won’t be in Office Long, but will he be more Dangerous out of it?

( Tomdispatch.com) – 2021 has indeed begun and god knows what it has in store for us. But unless, somehow, we’re surprised beyond imagining, The […]

Tom Engelhardt

Arab Spring
Already a New Boss in Town:  Saudis, afraid of Biden, Hurry to End their Blockade on Qatar

Already a New Boss in Town: Saudis, afraid of Biden, Hurry to End their Blockade on Qatar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia announced Monday that it would lift its land and sea blockade against Qatar, and that Bahrain and the […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Democracy's Night of the Living Dead:  Trump's GOP Zombies Lost by a Landslide, but they're back to eat our Brains

Democracy’s Night of the Living Dead: Trump’s GOP Zombies Lost by a Landslide, but they’re back to eat our Brains

By Dan Dinello | – Like a political remake of Night of the Living Dead, the Republican Party — put to death by the Lame […]

Dan Dinello

Authoritarianism
Trump's 'smoking gun' tape is worse than Nixon's, but congressional Republicans have less incentive to do anything about it

Trump’s ‘smoking gun’ tape is worse than Nixon’s, but congressional Republicans have less incentive to do anything about it

By Ken Hughes | – At least Donald Trump’s “smoking gun” tape is simpler than Richard Nixon’s. Schoolchildren can easily grasp Trump’s high crime, in […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Turkey: Bill on ‘Preventing Terrorism’ actually Targets Freedom of Association, Civil Society

Turkey: Bill on ‘Preventing Terrorism’ actually Targets Freedom of Association, Civil Society

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Istanbul) – The Turkish government should withdraw provisions in a draft law that would arbitrarily curtail nongovernmental organizations’ activities […]

Human Rights Watch

Authoritarianism
Tragedies, Farces and Trump's Coup d'état: The History of an Idea

Tragedies, Farces and Trump’s Coup d’état: The History of an Idea

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amy Gardner at the Washington Post got the scoop. In an hour-long telephone call to Georgia officials, including the the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
With Raft of Normalizations with Israel, Everything changed for Palestinians this Past Year . . . but They're still Occupied

With Raft of Normalizations with Israel, Everything changed for Palestinians this Past Year . . . but They’re still Occupied

By Anjuman Rahman | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Landmark developments seem to have changed everything and nothing for Palestine this past year. The […]

Middle East Monitor

Acidification of Oceans
It might be the world's biggest ocean, but the mighty Pacific is in peril

It might be the world’s biggest ocean, but the mighty Pacific is in peril

By Jodie L. Rummer, Bridie JM Allan, Charitha Pattiaratchi, Ian A. Bouyoucos, James Cook, Irfan Yulianto and Mirjam van der Mheen | – The Pacific […]

The Conversation

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