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Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?
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Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last week, Israel launched the latest of some 300 raids into Syria in the past few months. Some […]

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 3

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 3

08/09/2025 By Juan Cole

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

08/09/2025 By The Conversation

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Is it an accident that Iran and the US, two Theocracies, are Coronavirus Basket Cases?

Is it an accident that Iran and the US, two Theocracies, are Coronavirus Basket Cases?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The coronavirus statistics in both Iran and the United States are horrible. The US has the worst record on dealing […]

Juan Cole

China
Has Russian media turned on its golden boy Trump, joining with China and Iran?

Has Russian media turned on its golden boy Trump, joining with China and Iran?

By Robert Hinck, Robert Utterback and Skye Cooley | – It can be easy to overlook how the rest of the world is making sense […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump's Health Insurance Plan benefits the 1% and Harms all the Rest of Us

Trump’s Health Insurance Plan benefits the 1% and Harms all the Rest of Us

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) –Considered a serious danger to the wealth of private corporations and individuals, the highly class-conscious corporate-run, profiteering U.S. business […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Democracy
Their Germs and Guns, our Steel:  Canvassers Risk it All for America

Their Germs and Guns, our Steel: Canvassers Risk it All for America

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Look, folks, the air quality is in the red zone today. The EPA says that means people with lung or heart […]

Rebecca Gordon

Democracy
Did Trump blackmail Sudan into Recognizing Israel by offering to remove Khartoum from Terror List?

Did Trump blackmail Sudan into Recognizing Israel by offering to remove Khartoum from Terror List?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok announced Monday that the US had agreed to remove his country from the list of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis have Destroyed 1 mn Palestinian Olive Trees; this Month, they're at it Again

Israelis have Destroyed 1 mn Palestinian Olive Trees; this Month, they’re at it Again

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – In the village of Jaba in Bethlehem district this month, Israeli squatter settlers chopped down and destroyed 300 olive […]

Mohammed Samaana

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In the Midst of an Epochal American Eviction Crisis, Can we Wait for Congressional Talks?

In the Midst of an Epochal American Eviction Crisis, Can we Wait for Congressional Talks?

How should progressives stand on the issue of the second Covid relief bill being negotiated between Speaker Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin? What can be […]

John Buell

Evangelicals
Is the Rising Generation of Unchurched Secularists pointing to a post-Trump Progressive America?

Is the Rising Generation of Unchurched Secularists pointing to a post-Trump Progressive America?

Someday, the coronavirus tragedy will be gone, wiped out by scientific vaccines. And Donald Trump will be just an unpleasant memory, an absurd reminder of […]

James A. Haught

China
China grows nearly 5%; Will historians look back at Trump's disastrous Pandemic Response as the Moment Beijing Overtook the US?

China grows nearly 5%; Will historians look back at Trump’s disastrous Pandemic Response as the Moment Beijing Overtook the US?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even if Trump loses, he can go on screwing up the country for two and a half months thereafter, and […]

Juan Cole

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