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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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Inscriptions
The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

Ahmad Bin Ghanim al-Ida’ published a photograph of an inscription he found south of al-Ula (near ancient Hijr) in Saudi Arabia. It was picked up […]

Juan Cole

Health Care
The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

( Otherwords) – In our corporate-run health system, consumer “choices” are shaped entirely by profit-seeking monopolists. By Jim Hightower | February 19, 2020 Lyndon Johnson […]

Jim Hightower

Afghanistan
Can the US-Taliban Truce Hold, Bringing Peace to Afghanistan after 40 Years of War?

Can the US-Taliban Truce Hold, Bringing Peace to Afghanistan after 40 Years of War?

By Elizabeth B. Hessami | – If a seven-day truce between the United States and the Taliban holds until Feb. 28, 2020, Afghanistan’s decades-long conflict […]

The Conversation

Bernie Sanders
Russia wants Trump reelected, and may be Making a Bet that Bernie Sanders can't Defeat Him (They're Wrong)

Russia wants Trump reelected, and may be Making a Bet that Bernie Sanders can’t Defeat Him (They’re Wrong)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julia Arciga at The Daily Beast writes that the Bernie Sanders campaign is convinced that notorious far right wing internet […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
With a Million Fresh Refugees and a 9-Year Civil War, Can Impoverished Syrians Survive?

With a Million Fresh Refugees and a 9-Year Civil War, Can Impoverished Syrians Survive?

( Middle East Monitor ) – A devastating civil war and international sanctions have destroyed Syria’s economy, leaving it with a GDP that is a […]

Stasa Salacanin

Donald Trump
Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption

Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption

By Isaac Arnsdorf | – (ProPublica) – Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. […]

ProPublica

Elizabeth Warren
Nondisclosure and secrecy laws protect Bloomberg – not the women who sued him

Nondisclosure and secrecy laws protect Bloomberg – not the women who sued him

By Elizabeth C. Tippett | – Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg received a lot of flak at the Feb. 19 Democratic […]

The Conversation

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White Terrorism targeting Innocent Muslims in Germany is not termed "Terrorism"

White Terrorism targeting Innocent Muslims in Germany is not termed “Terrorism”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, a racist extremist went to two shisha bars in Hanau, Germany, randomly shooting the people there. Since smoking […]

Juan Cole

Acidification of Oceans
New Findings: 251.9 Million Years Ago Rapid Climate Change from CO2 Wiped out 90% of Species

New Findings: 251.9 Million Years Ago Rapid Climate Change from CO2 Wiped out 90% of Species

By Jennifer Botha | – The end-Permian mass extinction is considered to be the most devastating biotic event in the history of life on Earth […]

The Conversation

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