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The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict
Donald Trump

The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict

Volkan Isbasaran

On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with US President Donald Trump on the margins of the NATO summit at the Hague. His office […]

How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

06/25/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

06/25/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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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 […]

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Donald Trump
How Democracy Ends:  Not With a Bang But With a Whimper

How Democracy Ends: Not With a Bang But With a Whimper

By Karen J. Greenberg | – (Tomdispatch.com) – In this fast-paced century, rife with technological innovation, we’ve grown accustomed to the impermanence of things. Whatever […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Donald Trump
Anti-Science and Opportunistic: Trump and Iran's Ayatollahs both Play down Coronavirus

Anti-Science and Opportunistic: Trump and Iran’s Ayatollahs both Play down Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Christine Romans at CNN wonders if Trump’s news conference on Wednesday evening on the Covid-19 coronavirus was his “Mission Accomplished” […]

Juan Cole

Banking
Bernie Sanders and the Poor Little Rich Boys:  Why Billionaire Financiers are Bullying the Democratic Party

Bernie Sanders and the Poor Little Rich Boys: Why Billionaire Financiers are Bullying the Democratic Party

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Quiet concerns about a possible Sanders victory became a loud and agitated freakout after the Senator’s resounding […]

John Buell

Epidemics
Can Iran Afford its Syrian Intervention in face of Failing Economy, Coronavirus?

Can Iran Afford its Syrian Intervention in face of Failing Economy, Coronavirus?

By Tony Walker | – Iran’s emergence as a hot zone for the coronavirus further complicates that country’s relationships with its neighbours at a time […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
On Hanging from the Blades of an Israeli Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian

On Hanging from the Blades of an Israeli Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian

( Middle East Monitor ) – How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must […]

Middle East Monitor

Bernie Sanders
Sanders calls out "reactionary racist Netanyahu" while Bloomberg charges Mideast with "age-old hatreds"

Sanders calls out “reactionary racist Netanyahu” while Bloomberg charges Mideast with “age-old hatreds”

At Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in South Carolina on CBS, Major Garrett, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, asked Bernie Sanders a leading question. The […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Heartened by Trump's backing, Israel has ramped up Plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

Heartened by Trump’s backing, Israel has ramped up Plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

By Nabil Al-Sahli | – In line with the demographic goals of the Zionist occupation state, the recently announced Trump deal includes a clause to […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Gone Shopping!  America's Forever Wars Lumber on Because Americans don't Know About Them

Gone Shopping! America’s Forever Wars Lumber on Because Americans don’t Know About Them

( Tomdispatch.com) – There is no significant anti-war movement in America because there’s no war to protest. Let me explain. In February 2003, millions of […]

William J. Astore

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