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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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Iran
The Impossible Presidency: Rouhani Caught in Cross-hairs of Trump, Iranian Hardliners and Public Apathy

The Impossible Presidency: Rouhani Caught in Cross-hairs of Trump, Iranian Hardliners and Public Apathy

Melbourne (Special to Informed Comment) – For the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran the voter turn-out at the parliamentary […]

Shahram Akbarzadeh

Assyrians
Trump Administration Says Iraq is Dangerous for Christians, until it Wants to Deport Them

Trump Administration Says Iraq is Dangerous for Christians, until it Wants to Deport Them

By Yeganeh Torbati | – To deport Iraqi Christians, Trump’s immigration officials rely on testimony saying they won’t be at particular risk. But to justify […]

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Bernie Sanders
Can Bernie Sanders yet make Socialism Cool Again?

Can Bernie Sanders yet make Socialism Cool Again?

By Jason Hannan | – Love him or hate him, Bernie Sanders … has inspired a massive, energetic, hardworking and fiercely loyal following, determined to […]

The Conversation

Bernie Sanders
The Real Losers on Super Tuesday: Urgent Climate Action, Medicare for All, Anti-Plutocracy

The Real Losers on Super Tuesday: Urgent Climate Action, Medicare for All, Anti-Plutocracy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Primaries can be long drawn-out affairs. The Obama-Clinton struggle of spring-summer 2008 went down to the wire, still being contested […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Without the Right of Citizenship in a State, Palestinians are Doomed To Poverty and Unsustainability

Without the Right of Citizenship in a State, Palestinians are Doomed To Poverty and Unsustainability

(Middle East Monitor) – The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) remains in perpetual financial crisis. Spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna has warned […]

Ramona Wadi

Corruption
Can't we All get a Presidential Pardon from Life Imprisonment in the Trump Penal Colony?

Can’t we All get a Presidential Pardon from Life Imprisonment in the Trump Penal Colony?

(Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s the truth of it: I’d like a presidential pardon. Really, I would. And I think I deserve it more than Michael Milken […]

Tom Engelhardt

Afghanistan
Will Trump outreach to Taliban really bring Peace, or is this another Cheap Election-Year Stunt?

Will Trump outreach to Taliban really bring Peace, or is this another Cheap Election-Year Stunt?

By Niamatullah Ibrahimi | – The US has signed an historic agreement with the Taliban that sets Washington and its NATO allies on a path […]

The Conversation

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"The Triumph of Apartheid:" Did the Trump/Kushner Plan help Israel's Netanyahu return to Power?

“The Triumph of Apartheid:” Did the Trump/Kushner Plan help Israel’s Netanyahu return to Power?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Three Israeli television news channels’ exit polls suggest that indicted prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s far-right racist Likud Party fell just […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
The Corporate Democrats' Biden Obsession

The Corporate Democrats’ Biden Obsession

Notre Dame, IN (Special to Informed Comment) – The Establishment wing of the Democratic Party is so worried about the possibility of a Sanders victory […]

Tarek R. Dika

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