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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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America's Global Empire is now Costing us our own Well-Being

America’s Global Empire is now Costing us our own Well-Being

( Code Pink) – In 2004, journalist Ron Susskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Republicans in Congress engage in hateful Islamophobia to defend their Islamophobe, Greene

Republicans in Congress engage in hateful Islamophobia to defend their Islamophobe, Greene

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In attempting to defend Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Far Right (a.k.a. the Republican Party) has actually just taken her […]

Juan Cole

China
Biden’s Top Foreign Policy Challenge: Avoiding a Cold War with China

Biden’s Top Foreign Policy Challenge: Avoiding a Cold War with China

Taiwan and the South China Sea are the likeliest points of conflict — but conflict is not an option. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – […]

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Greta Thunberg effect: people familiar with young climate activist may be more likely to act

Greta Thunberg effect: people familiar with young climate activist may be more likely to act

By Anandita Sabherwal and Sander van der Linden | – She was declared Time magazine’s person of the year in the same month that Donald […]

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Iran
Washington and Tehran: Who will make the first move?

Washington and Tehran: Who will make the first move?

( Middle East Monitor) – From the outside, the heated debate between Tehran and Washington seems as though it could be summarised by the question: […]

Oraib AlRantawi

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After Years of Outrage Politics, RepubliQans have surrendered to the Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Theorists

After Years of Outrage Politics, RepubliQans have surrendered to the Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Theorists

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – From Sarah Palin’s alarmist and mendacious charge of death panels in the Affordable Health Act to Benghazi, where the smarmy […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
As a Muslim American, I'm heartened Biden Repealed Muslim Ban: But Rampant Islamophobia is Undiminished

As a Muslim American, I’m heartened Biden Repealed Muslim Ban: But Rampant Islamophobia is Undiminished

By Domenica Ghanem | ( Otherwords.org ) – President Joe Biden has repealed the Muslim ban. As the news rolled in, I remembered how I […]

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China's National Carbon Market has Just Launched: How it Could be a Climate Game Changer

China’s National Carbon Market has Just Launched: How it Could be a Climate Game Changer

By Huw Slater, Wang Shu and Dimitri De Boer | – ( China Dialogue) – With the new market having opened on 1 February, experts […]

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Top Three Ways Solar Power can Help Low-Income Families

Top Three Ways Solar Power can Help Low-Income Families

By Galen Barbose, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Ryan Wiser | – Until recently, rooftop solar panels were a clean energy technology that only wealthy Americans could […]

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