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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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Failures of Democracy in America and the Arab Spring

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today is ten years since Egyptian youth gathered in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo demanding the resignation of Egypt’s brutal […]

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Confronting Total Collapse in Israeli-Occupied Gaza: Division and COVID-19

Confronting Total Collapse in Israeli-Occupied Gaza: Division and COVID-19

By Ali Abdel-Wahab | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – Gaza has always been unique among the different parts of Palestine. Its current particularity stems from […]

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Equal Opportunity Hate: The Angry White women of the Capitol Far Right

By Jakana Thomas | – The terror inflicted on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 laid bare America’s problem with violent extremism. The FBI and […]

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How Bush’s Wars led to Trump’s Insurrection: From Occupying Iraq to Occupying the Capitol

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – “I got out of the Marines and within a few years, 15 of my buddies had killed […]

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Why is False News about Iran All Right?  No, Khamenei didn’t Threaten Trump on Golf Course, and no, his Twitter account wasn’t Banned

Why is False News about Iran All Right? No, Khamenei didn’t Threaten Trump on Golf Course, and no, his Twitter account wasn’t Banned

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – No, Ayatollah Ali Khameni’s twitter account did not carry an image of Donald Trump being droned on a golf course, […]

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Donald Trump
The Other Capitol Mob: How the Billionaires funded the Insurrection

The Other Capitol Mob: How the Billionaires funded the Insurrection

Much to the embarrassment of major corporations, their political donations were traced to the mayhem of January 6. ( Otherwords.org ) – You can’t poke […]

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Israel and Palestine:  Apartheid or Settler Colonialism

Israel and Palestine: Apartheid or Settler Colonialism

( Middle East Monitor) – When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether […]

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Did America really Duck the Dark Night of Fascism?  The delusion of normalcy that haunts the United States

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By Liam Kennedy | – The election of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States was received across much of the world […]

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Two and a half days into the Biden administration, it is already clear that the Problem of Iran is going […]

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