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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
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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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Pennsylvania’s Undecideds: The 2024 Election Will Likely Turn on the Democrats’ Ground Game

Pennsylvania’s Undecideds: The 2024 Election Will Likely Turn on the Democrats’ Ground Game

( Tomdispatch.com ) – If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the […]

Bob Dreyfuss

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More Genocide:  Israel Bans UNRWA, Guaranteeing Further Spike in Maternal and Infant Deaths in Gaza

More Genocide: Israel Bans UNRWA, Guaranteeing Further Spike in Maternal and Infant Deaths in Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli parliament on Monday passed legislation declaring the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, authorized by the UN General […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Could Israel’s “General’s Plan” to Drive Palestinians from North Gaza bring back the Settlers?

Could Israel’s “General’s Plan” to Drive Palestinians from North Gaza bring back the Settlers?

By Leonie Fleischmann, City St George’s, University of London | – (The Conversation) – Western political leaders were quick to argue that the killing of […]

The Conversation

Democracy
What’s at Stake in our Political Storm?

What’s at Stake in our Political Storm?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Images of homes that collapsed under mudslides or falling trees, waterlogged farms, and debris-filled roads drove home (yes, home!) to me […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Arab Americans
Palestinian-Americans Help Make the US Great: A Reply to Giuliani at the Trumpie Madison Square Garden Hatefest

Palestinian-Americans Help Make the US Great: A Reply to Giuliani at the Trumpie Madison Square Garden Hatefest

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Great Trump Three Hours of Hate at Madison Square Garden on Sunday included a fatally unfunny comedian calling Puerto […]

Juan Cole

France
The Rift over Gaza between Israel and Western Allies Deepens: Macron v. Netanyahu

The Rift over Gaza between Israel and Western Allies Deepens: Macron v. Netanyahu

By Imran Khalid | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – It took nearly a year for French President Emmanuel Macron to confront the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Israel/ Palestine
The Long History of Palestine: Why Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War

The Long History of Palestine: Why Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War

( Middle East Monitor ) – Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the […]

Ramzy Baroud

Colonialism
Does Britain owe Reparations to the Palestinians for Engineering their loss of their Country?

Does Britain owe Reparations to the Palestinians for Engineering their loss of their Country?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ta-Nehisi Coates made the argument for US reparations for slavery in 2014 in The Atlantic. In that essay, he made […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israel’s Northern Offensive Endangering Hundreds of Thousands of Civilians

Gaza: Israel’s Northern Offensive Endangering Hundreds of Thousands of Civilians

Gaza Shelters under Fire, Mass Displacement

Human Rights Watch

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