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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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The Heart (or Graphite) of Greed:  Why Donald Trump’s Obsession with Greenland Is All About China</h2>

The Heart (or Graphite) of Greed: Why Donald Trump’s Obsession with Greenland Is All About China

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In early January, Donald Trump Jr.’s private plane landed on a snowy airfield in Greenland. There was little fanfare upon his […]

Joshua Frank

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It is Time to Junk the “Munich” Analogy

It is Time to Junk the “Munich” Analogy

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – No sooner had the announcement about a new policy for Ukraine from the Trump administration been made […]

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Iran
Can Israel Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program?

Can Israel Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program?

By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL ) – U.S. intelligence has concluded that the odds of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program in the […]

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We’re Killing off Thousands of Species, damaging our Health, Economies and Connections to Nature

We’re Killing off Thousands of Species, damaging our Health, Economies and Connections to Nature

By Justine Bell-James, The University of Queensland and James Watson, The University of Queensland (The Conversation) – Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement […]

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Climate Crisis
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Shamash! “Carbon Smoke”

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Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
For Trumpism “Free Speech” means Neo-Nazi Speech

For Trumpism “Free Speech” means Neo-Nazi Speech

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is eviscerating the US Constitution in a particularly insidious way. Previously, I have […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Balkans
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With off-limits Bosnian Serb Islamophobes

Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With off-limits Bosnian Serb Islamophobes

By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester | – ( ProPublica ) – Before Peter Marocco was selected to dismantle America’s entire foreign aid sector […]

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Donald Trump
The New Ugly American: Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump

The New Ugly American: Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump

( Tomdispatch.com ) – A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New […]

William J. Astore

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Netanyahu’s Quest to Attack Iran with the Mother of all Bombs

Netanyahu’s Quest to Attack Iran with the Mother of all Bombs

The emboldened Netanyahu cabinet is in a war path, again. It is mobilizing to attack Iran and lobbying President Trump into a plan that presumably […]

Dan Steinbock

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