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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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The Coronavirus has sent Stocks Plummeting - Could a Recession be Next?

The Coronavirus has sent Stocks Plummeting – Could a Recession be Next?

By Michael Walden | – Fears are growing that the new coronavirus will infect the U.S. economy. U.S stocks are headed for their worst week […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
On Top of Everything Else, Coronavirus hits the Middle East

On Top of Everything Else, Coronavirus hits the Middle East

(Al-Bab.com) – Iran announced on Friday that the number of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 388, with 34 deaths so far (among […]

Brian Whitaker

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Clouds of War: Russia sends Warships as Turkey kills 45 Syrian Troops and blackmails Europe with Migration

Clouds of War: Russia sends Warships as Turkey kills 45 Syrian Troops and blackmails Europe with Migration

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey and Russia engaged in a tense dance of negotiation and threat on Friday in the wake of the killing […]

Juan Cole

Elections
Iran goes from Bad to Worse:  Hardliners win elections, thanks in part to Trump’s treaty withdrawal

Iran goes from Bad to Worse: Hardliners win elections, thanks in part to Trump’s treaty withdrawal

(Progressive.org) – ‘TEHRAN—The parliamentary candidates had rented a large hall for a campaign rally, but only a few hundred supporters showed up. They came to […]

Reese Erlich

Israel/ Palestine
Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start . . .

Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start . . .

(Middle East Monitor) – The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. […]

Asa Winstanley

Displaced and Refugees
Targeting Muslims, India is Abolishing Birthright Citizenship

Targeting Muslims, India is Abolishing Birthright Citizenship

By Rahul Sambaraju and Suryapratim Roy | – The fallout from two controversial changes to citizenship laws continues to rock India. At least 35 people […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
Turkey mobilizes for war with Syria and Russia as Nearly 3 Dozen Turkish Troops Killed

Turkey mobilizes for war with Syria and Russia as Nearly 3 Dozen Turkish Troops Killed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that nearly three dozen Turkish soldiers in a barracks in Syria were killed Friday by an air […]

Juan Cole

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Iran: No Justice for Bloody Crackdown (HRW)

Iran: No Justice for Bloody Crackdown (HRW)

Unlawful Lethal Force, Families Threatened, Cover-Ups

Human Rights Watch

Democratic Socialism
How Cold War US Corporations Smeared Democratic Socialism

How Cold War US Corporations Smeared Democratic Socialism

By Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy | – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Democratic front-runner in the race for the presidential nomination. Yet even some left-leaning pundits […]

The Conversation

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