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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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How Evangelical Leaders worshiped the Golden Calf of Trump's Authoritarianism

How Evangelical Leaders worshiped the Golden Calf of Trump’s Authoritarianism

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the last four years, disinformation propagated by Republican political elites including, most outrageously, Donald Trump, has threatened […]

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America, the Fickle Superpower: World Welcomes Biden, but fears more Trumps

America, the Fickle Superpower: World Welcomes Biden, but fears more Trumps

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The nightmare is over. The vanquished beast has crawled back to Mar-a-Lago to lick his wounds. The heroes are hard at […]

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Denmark to build Artificial Island for Wind Farms to Power the Whole Country

Denmark to build Artificial Island for Wind Farms to Power the Whole Country

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP reports that Denmark’s parliament has just committed to building an artificial island off its shores that will be home […]

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Governments mustn’t confuse Criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism:  British-Israeli Academics

Governments mustn’t confuse Criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism: British-Israeli Academics

Via Israeli Academics UK Call to reject the IHRA’s ‘working definition of antisemitism’ To: Vice Chancellors, Members of Academic Senates, all other UK Academics and […]

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How Defeating the Planet-Killing Keystone XL Oil Pipeline built a Bolder, Savvier Climate Movement

How Defeating the Planet-Killing Keystone XL Oil Pipeline built a Bolder, Savvier Climate Movement

By Nick Engelfried | ( Waging Nonviolence) – When President Biden rescinded a crucial permit for the Keystone XL pipeline last week, it marked the […]

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Can the Super Bowl end the Toxic season of Trumpism in Sports?

Can the Super Bowl end the Toxic season of Trumpism in Sports?

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Overwhelmed by the intertwined plagues of Covid-19 and Trumpism, sports didn’t stand a chance in 2020. […]

Juan Cole

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In Game Changer, Int'l Criminal Court will take up Israeli War Crimes and Apartheid in Palestine

In Game Changer, Int’l Criminal Court will take up Israeli War Crimes and Apartheid in Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, the International Criminal Court found that it had jurisdiction to consider war crimes and crimes against humanity and […]

Juan Cole

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Yes, Speech can Incite Violence: What Decades of Research Show about Trump's Impeachment Trial

Yes, Speech can Incite Violence: What Decades of Research Show about Trump’s Impeachment Trial

By Kurt Braddock | – Senators, acting in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump that begins on Feb. 9, will soon have to […]

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Trump's Coup and Burma's Coup:  What they have in Common

Trump’s Coup and Burma’s Coup: What they have in Common

The Asian country’s military overthrew its government over baseless claims of voter fraud. Sound familiar? ( 48hills.org) – This week, military officers in Myanmar (formerly […]

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