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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

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'Indian Country' is excited about the first Native American secretary of the interior – and the promise she has for addressing issues of importance to all Americans

‘Indian Country’ is excited about the first Native American secretary of the interior – and the promise she has for addressing issues of importance to all Americans

By Traci Morris | – President Biden’s nomination of U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico to lead the Department of the Interior is historic […]

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Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America?   Not Those of Poor Americans, That’s For Sure

Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America? Not Those of Poor Americans, That’s For Sure

By Liz Theoharis | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In June 1990, future South African President Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress only […]

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Israel stops Palestinians of Gaza from getting 2K doses of Russian Coronavirus Vaccine

Israel stops Palestinians of Gaza from getting 2K doses of Russian Coronavirus Vaccine

Update. On Wednesday Feb. 17, Israel finally permitted 1,000 doses into Gaza, despite an earlier temptation to play politics with the pandemic. Ann Arbor (Informed […]

Juan Cole

Development
Yes we need the $1.9 Trillion Stimulus: Real Unemployment is 3 times what they're telling us

Yes we need the $1.9 Trillion Stimulus: Real Unemployment is 3 times what they’re telling us

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – As Congress gets set to debate the Biden Pandemic relief package, one of the favorite Republican lines […]

John Buell

Iran
Is Biden risking new conflict with Iran by yielding to Dem Hawks and Neoconservatives?

Is Biden risking new conflict with Iran by yielding to Dem Hawks and Neoconservatives?

( Code Pink) – As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America’s […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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“I Don’t Trust the People Above Me”: Riot Squad Cops Open Up About Disastrous Response to Capitol Insurrection

“I Don’t Trust the People Above Me”: Riot Squad Cops Open Up About Disastrous Response to Capitol Insurrection

By Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan | – The Insurrection ( ProPublica) – The Effort to Overturn the Election The riot squad defending the embattled […]

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Climate Crisis
Michael E. Mann on The New Climate War and Biden’s Greening of America: Interview with Juan Cole

Michael E. Mann on The New Climate War and Biden’s Greening of America: Interview with Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I am so pleased to present to our readers an interview with one of the world’s foremost climate scientists, Michael […]

Juan Cole

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Trump is What Republicans Have Always Wanted

Trump is What Republicans Have Always Wanted

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican Party despite being disgracefully impeached twice, and that is […]

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Culture
How Spanish Can Help Us Survive Viral Times: A Journey into the Heart of a Language We Need Now More Than Ever

How Spanish Can Help Us Survive Viral Times: A Journey into the Heart of a Language We Need Now More Than Ever

“Una nación bajo Diós, indivisible, con libertad y justicia para todos.” ( Tomdispatch.com) – When Jennifer López shouted out that last line of the Pledge […]

Ariel Dorfman

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