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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope
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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope

Richard Penaskovic

Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It’s not surprising that Pope Leo XIV took the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo XIII […]

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

05/21/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

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Iran
No Fair!  Iran put its Country Right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East

No Fair! Iran put its Country Right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East

Political Cartoon | – “No Fair! Iran put its Country right next to Bases used by US Military in Middle East h/t Middle East Eye

Juan Cole

Libya
Will Turkey sending its Troops to Libya Prolong the Civil War?

Will Turkey sending its Troops to Libya Prolong the Civil War?

By Mustafa Fetouri | – Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government submitted a bill to the Turkish parliament seeking approval for its plans to send troops to […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Trump, Troll-in-Chief, wags the Impeachment Dog by Going to War with Iran

Trump, Troll-in-Chief, wags the Impeachment Dog by Going to War with Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The madman in the White House has been sulking and raging for weeks about his impeachment proceedings, tweeting manically on […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Top Five Countries that will Present Foreign Policy Challenges in 2020

Top Five Countries that will Present Foreign Policy Challenges in 2020

By Catesby Holmes | – Where will the world’s attention turn in 2020? The United States’ impeachment trial of Donald Trump and the United Kingdom’s […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Two 'divinely chosen' Great Leaders, Trump and Iran's Khamenei, in Heated Tweet War over Iraq

Two ‘divinely chosen’ Great Leaders, Trump and Iran’s Khamenei, in Heated Tweet War over Iraq

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I suppose it was foreseeable that at some point it would happen, but we’re finally here. President Donald J. Trump […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Top 3 Practical Solutions to our Most Pressing Environmental Crises

Top 3 Practical Solutions to our Most Pressing Environmental Crises

By Jennifer Weeks | – From climate change to omnipresent plastic waste, 2019 delivered a lot of discouraging environmental news. Several special reports this year […]

The Conversation

Omar Khayyam
How to Write Rubaiyat

How to Write Rubaiyat

Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was a worldwide publishing phenomenon from about 1880 until the 1970s, and is still beloved by […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Trolling: Time to Realize what Smearing Palestinian Rights Activists as "anti-Semitic" Really is

Trolling: Time to Realize what Smearing Palestinian Rights Activists as “anti-Semitic” Really is

(Middle East Monitor ) – At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations […]

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
US Embassy in Baghdad Invaded after SecState Pompeo Slashed Security Funding, Took no Preventive Steps in wake of US Airstrikes

US Embassy in Baghdad Invaded after SecState Pompeo Slashed Security Funding, Took no Preventive Steps in wake of US Airstrikes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There was nothing more predictable than that the US Embassy should come under attack after the US Air Force bombed […]

Juan Cole

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