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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
Donald Trump

Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Climate Change and the Missing War on Poverty

Climate Change and the Missing War on Poverty

( Tomdispatch.com) – It was William Shakespeare who, in Troilus and Cressida, wrote, “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” And yet, in […]

Liz Theoharis

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The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, kills Mayor and Aid Workers

The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, kills Mayor and Aid Workers

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has begun giving southern Lebanon the Gaza treatment. Some 25% of Lebanese are under “evacuation orders,” which […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Should End Campaign to Destroy Lifesaving UN Palestinian Aid Agency

Israel Should End Campaign to Destroy Lifesaving UN Palestinian Aid Agency

Louis Charbonneau ( Human Rights Watch ) – Israeli authorities should withdraw proposed legislation in parliament aimed at preventing the United Nations Relief and Works […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
My Sister was the 166th Doctor to be Murdered in Gaza

My Sister was the 166th Doctor to be Murdered in Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – “Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will […]

Ramzy Baroud

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Blinken and Austin Scold Netanyahu over Gaza Atrocities, playing Cynical Presidential Politics

Blinken and Austin Scold Netanyahu over Gaza Atrocities, playing Cynical Presidential Politics

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Barak Ravid at Axios got the scoop. He was leaked a letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary […]

Juan Cole

China
Powder Keg in the Pacific: America’s new Cold War with China

Powder Keg in the Pacific: America’s new Cold War with China

( Tomdispatch.com ) – While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Israel
Israel’s actions against UN Peacekeepers suggest it may seek to Occupy Southern Lebanon

Israel’s actions against UN Peacekeepers suggest it may seek to Occupy Southern Lebanon

By Vanessa Newby, Leiden University and Chiara Ruffa, Sciences Po | – (The Conversation) – The United Nations security council has expressed strong concern for […]

The Conversation

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Nobel Prize-Winning Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki see themselves in the Palestinians of Gaza

Nobel Prize-Winning Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki see themselves in the Palestinians of Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The decision of the Truman administration to use nuclear weapons on the civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Aggression tops new Mexican President’s Agenda: wants to Recognize Palestine

Gaza Aggression tops new Mexican President’s Agenda: wants to Recognize Palestine

by Eman Abusidu EmAbusidu ( Middle East Monitor ) – Just days after her inauguration as the first female president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum called […]

Middle East Monitor

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