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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

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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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The Plastic Plague: Fish are eating more Microplastics, and We are eating those Fish

The Plastic Plague: Fish are eating more Microplastics, and We are eating those Fish

By Alexandra McIntur and Matthew Savoca | – Trillions of barely visible pieces of plastic are floating in the world’s oceans, from surface waters to […]

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Authoritarianism
Mr. Erdogan: Cease Turkish Gov’t Campaign against Boğaziçi University, Students, Faculty and Institutions

Mr. Erdogan: Cease Turkish Gov’t Campaign against Boğaziçi University, Students, Faculty and Institutions

Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı […]

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Climate Crisis
Time to Roll up our Sleeves and Fix this:  Trump left us with Heightened Climate, Nuclear Danger

Time to Roll up our Sleeves and Fix this: Trump left us with Heightened Climate, Nuclear Danger

( Tomdispatch.com) – If you live in California, you’re likely to be consumed on occasion by thoughts of fire. That’s not surprising, given that, in […]

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Donald Trump
Whites still won't Mask up: Impeach Trump for discouraging Hygiene in a pandemic and killing hundreds of thousands

Whites still won’t Mask up: Impeach Trump for discouraging Hygiene in a pandemic and killing hundreds of thousands

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of Trump’s biggest crimes for which he is unlikely ever to be held responsible was just discouraging mask-wearing in […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis and Water Conflict: How Saudi’s water insecurity led to war in Yemen

Climate Crisis and Water Conflict: How Saudi’s water insecurity led to war in Yemen

Stavanger, Norway (Special to Informed Comment) – In the early hours of 14 September 2019, a fleet of drones attacked the Abqaiq-Khurais oil refinery in […]

Adam Robertson Charlton

Inequality
The Gamestop Affair shows that America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation

The Gamestop Affair shows that America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – It would be unfair to suggest that the titans of Wall Street are oblivious to poverty. One […]

John Buell

Donald Trump
I analyzed all of Trump's tweets to find out what he was really saying

I analyzed all of Trump’s tweets to find out what he was really saying

By Michael Humphrey | – The tally was in, it was clear Donald Trump had lost – and he tweeted: “either a new election should […]

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Climate Crisis
Global heating from CO2 breaks Himalayan Glacier, floods sweep away Scores, destroy Hydroelectric Plant

Global heating from CO2 breaks Himalayan Glacier, floods sweep away Scores, destroy Hydroelectric Plant

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A huge chunk of the Nanda Devi glacier in the Himalayas broke off Sunday morning, melting and crashing down on […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Biden is Right to end US involvement in Bloody Yemen Conflict, but he Needs to end the War itself

Biden is Right to end US involvement in Bloody Yemen Conflict, but he Needs to end the War itself

Glen Cove, N.Y. (Special to Informed Comment) – President Biden’s about face on Saudi support for the war in Yemen, including setting aside the disastrous […]

Daniel Martin Varisco

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