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

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

09/19/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Israel: Will Netanyahu's Authoritarian Crackdown on Mass Demonstrations bring him Down?

Israel: Will Netanyahu’s Authoritarian Crackdown on Mass Demonstrations bring him Down?

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Massive demonstrations across Israel are calling for the unseating of Prime Minister Benjamin […]

Middle East Monitor

Japan
An Atomic Bomb no bigger than a Pencil

An Atomic Bomb no bigger than a Pencil

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim[1] – It was 24 August 1945. I was ten years old, living with my mother, brother and sister in a Japanese internment […]

Anne-Ruth Wertheim

China
Trump's Cold War China Policy is Isolating the U.S., Not China

Trump’s Cold War China Policy is Isolating the U.S., Not China

( Codepink) – Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Donald Trump
A Warning Signal for US?  Corruption, Gov't Gridlock, Pandemic, drive half a Million Lebanese Children into Hunger

A Warning Signal for US? Corruption, Gov’t Gridlock, Pandemic, drive half a Million Lebanese Children into Hunger

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lebanon, a small country of 4.7 million citizens and another 1.5 million Syrian refugees and 400,000 Palestinian refugees, is facing […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
American Nervous Breakdown: Super-Spreader Trump and His Deranged Cult Infect Us All with their Toxic Lunacy

American Nervous Breakdown: Super-Spreader Trump and His Deranged Cult Infect Us All with their Toxic Lunacy

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – While the plague rages, the economy crashes, and millions of jobless Americans just lost unemployment benefits, President Trump and […]

Dan Dinello

African-Americans
The Suburban Vote:  Why Trump threatened Detroit, America’s most Segregated City, with Federal Officers

The Suburban Vote: Why Trump threatened Detroit, America’s most Segregated City, with Federal Officers

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – Donald Trump initially threatened to deploy federal agents in the city to clamp down on protests, though later […]

Jamal Dillman-Hasso

Colonialism
How the Failures of Great Powers at the Versailles Peace Conference Set the Stage for Today’s anti-racist Uprisings

How the Failures of Great Powers at the Versailles Peace Conference Set the Stage for Today’s anti-racist Uprisings

( The Conversation) – The racism that is now the target of protest across the globe is rooted in the tragic choices of leaders seeking […]

Elizabeth F. Thompson

Archaeology
Elon Musk may have been Joking, but the Flaky Theory that Aliens built the Pyramids is Faintly Racist

Elon Musk may have been Joking, but the Flaky Theory that Aliens built the Pyramids is Faintly Racist

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egyptian scientists and archeologists replied in a level-headed but firm way to billionaire Elon Musk’s tweet that aliens built the […]

Juan Cole

Employment
Political Suicide: GOP Senators holding up Stimulus are Retarding Recovery in Election Year

Political Suicide: GOP Senators holding up Stimulus are Retarding Recovery in Election Year

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Be thankful for small favors. When the Covid-19 depression hit like a brick, almost no one advocated […]

John Buell

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