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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
Donald Trump

Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel legitimises squatter outposts stolen from Palestinians and thus proceeds with silent annexation

Israel legitimises squatter outposts stolen from Palestinians and thus proceeds with silent annexation

By Abdel Nasser Al-Najjar | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Weeks before the March 2020 General Election in Israel, the main pillar of […]

Middle East Monitor

Democratic Party
“The Empire Strikes Biden” with Brent Terhune and Juan Cole – Francesca Fiorentini Podcast

“The Empire Strikes Biden” with Brent Terhune and Juan Cole – Francesca Fiorentini Podcast

“It’s global hegemony not Adam and Steve! From very real US wars abroad to the imagined “war on Christmas”, Francesca digs deep with comedian Brent […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Iran sends Oil, Gas Flotilla to Venezuela; will Trump attack it to Sabotage Biden?

Iran sends Oil, Gas Flotilla to Venezuela; will Trump attack it to Sabotage Biden?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bloomberg reports that a flotilla of ten Iranian vessels is heading for Venezuela. They have turned off their shipboard Automatic […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Constitution in Danger? Michael Flynn Wants Trump to Declare Martial Law

Constitution in Danger? Michael Flynn Wants Trump to Declare Martial Law

Boise, Idaho (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, December 1, Michael Flynn, the beneficiary of President Trump’s recent pardon, published a manifesto calling on […]

Everett Wohlers

Donald Trump
Where's the Second Relief Act?  The US Safety Net is working, but there are Capitalists who don't Want it to

Where’s the Second Relief Act? The US Safety Net is working, but there are Capitalists who don’t Want it to

Why can’t our political leaders learn to live with success? In an era marked by cynicism about politics both parties managed to enact an initial […]

John Buell

Afghanistan
Trump’s Pernicious Military Legacy: From the Forever Wars to the Cataclysms

Trump’s Pernicious Military Legacy: From the Forever Wars to the Cataclysms

( Tomdispatch.com) – In the military realm, Donald Trump will most likely be remembered for his insistence on ending America’s involvement in its twenty-first-century “forever […]

Michael T. Klare

Bill of Rights
Trump Presses Georgia to overturn Election, but he should Remember what happened when Algeria, Iran, Kyrgyzstan and the other Georgia did That

Trump Presses Georgia to overturn Election, but he should Remember what happened when Algeria, Iran, Kyrgyzstan and the other Georgia did That

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Kristen Holmes and Victoria Stracqualursi at CNN report that Trump called up Georgia governor Brian Kemp and asked him to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's $16 billion siege on Gaza has forced 1 mn. into Poverty

Israel’s $16 billion siege on Gaza has forced 1 mn. into Poverty

( Middle East Monitor ) – A new report on the Gaza Strip by a United Nations (UN) agency makes for sobering reading. The UN […]

Asa Winstanley

Climate Crisis
The Lancet:  Climate Crisis Menaces every Country with spike in Heat Strokes, Flood, Drought, and more Pandemics

The Lancet: Climate Crisis Menaces every Country with spike in Heat Strokes, Flood, Drought, and more Pandemics

By Celia McMichael, Ilan Kelman and Shouro Dasgupta, and Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson | – Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, and […]

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