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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Begins Disarmament after 47 Years of Conflict with Türkiye
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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Begins Disarmament after 47 Years of Conflict with Türkiye

Volkan Isbasaran

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]

A “Humanitarian City” of Ruins: The Final Displacement of Gaza

A “Humanitarian City” of Ruins: The Final Displacement of Gaza

07/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Solar Power: California Farmers identify a hot new Cash Crop

Solar Power: California Farmers identify a hot new Cash Crop

07/17/2025 By The Conversation

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Wind Power surges by 20 Percent!  Why Gov't Should Put Stimulus Money into it to Help Economy and the Earth

Wind Power surges by 20 Percent! Why Gov’t Should Put Stimulus Money into it to Help Economy and the Earth

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wind power is growing by leaps and bounds, with new installations up 20 percent in 2019. A whole 60 gigawatts […]

Juan Cole

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Italy Coronavirus Deaths Pass 10,000: How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Created Europe's Worst Crisis

Italy Coronavirus Deaths Pass 10,000: How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Created Europe’s Worst Crisis

( Foreign Policy in Focus) As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. […]

Conn M. Hallinan

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Yemen: Saudi Forces Torture, ‘Disappear’ Yemenis

Yemen: Saudi Forces Torture, ‘Disappear’ Yemenis

At Least 5 Detainees from al-Mahrah Illegally Transferred to Saudi Arabia

Human Rights Watch

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A Civil Rights Issue: Less than 1% of Americans Provide most Money for Political Campaigns

A Civil Rights Issue: Less than 1% of Americans Provide most Money for Political Campaigns

By By Chiraag Bains | – ( Otherwords.org) – Less than 1 percent of the population provides most of America’s campaign funds. It looks nothing […]

OtherWords

Epidemics
No Mercy even in a Pandemic: Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet

No Mercy even in a Pandemic: Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Demonstrating that the technologies of settler colonialism never take a break, Israeli Occupation forces have demolished an emergency clinic set […]

Juan Cole

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Why have America and Saudi Arabia Bonded for Decades?  Can you Say ‘Oil,’ Children?

Why have America and Saudi Arabia Bonded for Decades? Can you Say ‘Oil,’ Children?

By Essam Abdul Shafi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – With its inherent connection to the religion of Islam as the Custodians of the […]

Middle East Monitor

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Coronavirus Solidarity: A 13th Century Mystical Persian Poem about Humanity Shows why We need a Global Response

Coronavirus Solidarity: A 13th Century Mystical Persian Poem about Humanity Shows why We need a Global Response

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam | – Coronavirus is all about human connectivity. From a philosophical perspective, I’ve been thinking about how this virus is forcing us […]

The Conversation

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People are Dying:  Why are We Waiting for Medicare for All?

People are Dying: Why are We Waiting for Medicare for All?

By F. Douglas Stephenson (The Gainesville Sun)- An old social justice chant, “Why are We Waiting,” is sung to the tune of the beautiful and […]

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The Novel Coronavirus has a Well-Known Left-Wing Bias

The Novel Coronavirus has a Well-Known Left-Wing Bias

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The character played by comedian Stephen Colbert, back when he was parodying Fox “News” anchors, lamented that “Reality has a […]

Juan Cole

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