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Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel
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Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel

Juan Cole

Al-Sharaa and his delegation had as their primary goal the lifting of US Caesar Act sanctions, which have crippled Syria’s reconstruction

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The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

11/11/2025 By Global Voices

A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian King:  A new Statue in Tehran

A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian King: A new Statue in Tehran

11/11/2025 By The Conversation

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Failing Upward: Pentagon’s more and more Expensive Boondoggles (that don’t even work)

Failing Upward: Pentagon’s more and more Expensive Boondoggles (that don’t even work)

( Tomdispatch.com) – Cancel culture is a common, almost viral, term in political and social discourse these days. Basically, somebody expresses views considered to be […]

William J. Astore

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Why the Biden Administration is Dead Wrong to oppose Int'l Criminal Court War Crimes inquiry in Occupied Palestine: A Betrayal of the Rule of Law

Why the Biden Administration is Dead Wrong to oppose Int’l Criminal Court War Crimes inquiry in Occupied Palestine: A Betrayal of the Rule of Law

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has decided to look into war crimes committed in the Israeli-Occupied Territories of Palestine. Outgoing […]

Juan Cole

Employment
Essential Workers deserve $15/ hr. – Remember when we Fêted them for Serving us in Pandemic?

Essential Workers deserve $15/ hr. – Remember when we Fêted them for Serving us in Pandemic?

By Eshawney Gaston | – ( Otherwords.org) – I’m one of America’s millions of essential workers. We’re working in your children’s schools, at your grocery […]

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GCC
Israeli-Iranian Shadow Naval War in Arabian Gulf puts Arab Gulf States in Cross-hairs

Israeli-Iranian Shadow Naval War in Arabian Gulf puts Arab Gulf States in Cross-hairs

By Hazem Ayyad | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The Arabian Gulf has turned into an arena for confrontation and possible conflict between Iran […]

Middle East Monitor

Iraq
Pope's upcoming visit brings attention to the dwindling population of Christians in Iraq

Pope’s upcoming visit brings attention to the dwindling population of Christians in Iraq

By Ramazan Kılınç | – Pope Francis will arrive in Iraq on Friday in a first-ever papal visit to the country that is expected to […]

The Conversation

censorship
Reporters without Borders Files German 'Crimes against Humanity' Case against Saudi's Bin Salman for Khashoggi Murder

Reporters without Borders Files German ‘Crimes against Humanity’ Case against Saudi’s Bin Salman for Khashoggi Murder

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The France-based Reporters without Borders (RSF) has filed a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor-General of the Federal Court of Justices […]

Juan Cole

Kurds
How Facebook Suppressed Kurdish Site for sake of its Business in Turkey

How Facebook Suppressed Kurdish Site for sake of its Business in Turkey

By Jack Gillum and Justin Elliott | – ( ProPublica ) – As Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighboring Syria in […]

ProPublica

Mass Extinction
A common soil pesticide cut wild bee reproduction by 89% – here’s why scientists are worried

A common soil pesticide cut wild bee reproduction by 89% – here’s why scientists are worried

By Philip Donkersley | – When you think of bees, a hive humming with activity probably comes to mind. But most of the world’s 20,000 […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
The Real Threats to America are the Pandemic and Poverty; why Give Ever More Money to the Pentagon?

The Real Threats to America are the Pandemic and Poverty; why Give Ever More Money to the Pentagon?

By Mandy Smithberger | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – This country is in a crisis of the first order. More than half a million of us […]

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