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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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Maybe now the U.S. should stop talking down to the World about “Democracy Promotion”

Maybe now the U.S. should stop talking down to the World about “Democracy Promotion”

Because of the events of the last weeks, months and years, should “democracy promotion” be permanently removed from the U.S. foreign policy lexicon? ( Foreign […]

John Feffer

Donald Trump
Can Biden roll back Trump’s escalation and end catastrophic Yemen War?

Can Biden roll back Trump’s escalation and end catastrophic Yemen War?

The Biden Administration has a chance to undo a disastrous label and open the door for peace. ( 48hills.org) – One day before the Inauguration, […]

Reese Erlich

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Despite Uneventful Inauguration, US could face a simmering, chronic domestic terror problem

Despite Uneventful Inauguration, US could face a simmering, chronic domestic terror problem

By Luis De la Calle | – After President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021 without any violent incidents, many in the United […]

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The first thing we do, let's kill all the Coal Plants: How Joe Biden can save the Planet

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the Coal Plants: How Joe Biden can save the Planet

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My title is from William Shakespeare’s Henry the VI. In the original, Dick “the Butcher” is speaking of ways to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Scam of branding Criticism of Israel ‘Anti-Semitic’ is over: B’Tselem says it is an Apartheid State

The Scam of branding Criticism of Israel ‘Anti-Semitic’ is over: B’Tselem says it is an Apartheid State

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When B’Tselem described Israel as an apartheid state in a position paper last week, […]

Middle East Monitor

Joe Biden
Do Biden's Foreign Policy Appointees signal new Cold Wars with Russia, China?

Do Biden’s Foreign Policy Appointees signal new Cold Wars with Russia, China?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Hard as it is to believe in this time of record pandemic deaths, insurrection, and an unprecedented encore impeachment, Joe Biden is […]

Danny Sjursen

nuclear weapons
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A New Chance, as 50 Countries Pledge no Nukes

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A New Chance, as 50 Countries Pledge no Nukes

( Portside ) – A nuclear darkness has engulfed the world for seven decades, with only intermittent breakthroughs of light when treaties among nuclear nations […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Donald Trump
Trump  targeted innocent Muslims with Visa Ban on phony pretext of 'Terrorism,' then unleashed real White Terrorism on Capitol

Trump targeted innocent Muslims with Visa Ban on phony pretext of ‘Terrorism,’ then unleashed real White Terrorism on Capitol

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Muslim visa ban that Trump got through on his third try, and in which the Supreme Court to its […]

Juan Cole

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The Hill we Climb: Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem

The Hill we Climb: Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem

Amanda Gorman | – ( Buy her forthcoming poetry collection via Penguin Random House.) The Hill We Climb When day comes we ask ourselves, where […]

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