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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

11/05/2025 By Common Dreams

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

11/05/2025 By John Feffer

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Israel's Occupation Policies may Contribute to deaths of Many Elderly Palestinians, But Palestinian Youth are Poised to Flourish

Israel’s Occupation Policies may Contribute to deaths of Many Elderly Palestinians, But Palestinian Youth are Poised to Flourish

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The age bias of the novel coronavirus has geopolitical implications. Although it is not true that it leaves children and […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Iran fails to contain COVID-19 as internal political clashes prevent a timely and unified response

Iran fails to contain COVID-19 as internal political clashes prevent a timely and unified response

By Ezzatullah Mehrdad | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Since the outbreak of COVID-19 started in Iran in February 2020, internal political clashes have prevented the […]

Global Voices

China
Trump trots out Blaming China for his own Pitiful Covid-19 Failures

Trump trots out Blaming China for his own Pitiful Covid-19 Failures

The Republican Party is trying to shift blame for President Donald Trump’s disastrous coronavirus policies onto China. Chinese communists, Republican leaders claim, hid the pandemic […]

Reese Erlich

Donald Trump
Some Medieval Towns handled Plagues Better than Trump's Unequal, Rundown America

Some Medieval Towns handled Plagues Better than Trump’s Unequal, Rundown America

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – King Soloman in Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us that “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Donald Trump
Trump goes Peak Batshit Crazy, Urging UV Irradiation and Chlorine Injections, and Cable TV Greedily Broadcasts it

Trump goes Peak Batshit Crazy, Urging UV Irradiation and Chlorine Injections, and Cable TV Greedily Broadcasts it

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeff Zucker, the CEO of the Cable News Network, has a Harvard B.A. in American History and his father is […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Trump, Inc.: How Jared Kushner is Tackling White House Coronavirus Response -- Without Any Evident Experience

Trump, Inc.: How Jared Kushner is Tackling White House Coronavirus Response — Without Any Evident Experience

by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC | – This story was co-published with WNYC. (ProPublica) – On April 2, Jared Kushner uncharacteristically took to the podium to […]

ProPublica

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Finally Formed a Government: One Dedicated to Apartheid and Illegally Annexing Palestine

Israel Finally Formed a Government: One Dedicated to Apartheid and Illegally Annexing Palestine

( Middle East Monitor ) – When it comes to Israel, the international community has once again been exposed for the double standards and hypocrisy […]

Kamel Hawwash

Islam
Everything you Always wanted to Know about Muslim Fasting Month of Ramadan *But were Afraid to Ask

Everything you Always wanted to Know about Muslim Fasting Month of Ramadan *But were Afraid to Ask

By Mohammad Hassan Khalil | – Editor’s note: Mohammad Hassan Khalil, associate professor of religious studies and director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan […]

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Trump failed to vanquish Coronavirus with Hot Air, now wants to "shoot down" tiny Iranian Skiffs

Trump failed to vanquish Coronavirus with Hot Air, now wants to “shoot down” tiny Iranian Skiffs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The diarist and attorney James Boswell recorded that the writer Samuel Johnson remarked on the evening of April 7, 1775 […]

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