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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

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Clouds of War: Russia sends Warships as Turkey kills 45 Syrian Troops and blackmails Europe with Migration

Clouds of War: Russia sends Warships as Turkey kills 45 Syrian Troops and blackmails Europe with Migration

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey and Russia engaged in a tense dance of negotiation and threat on Friday in the wake of the killing […]

Juan Cole

Elections
Iran goes from Bad to Worse:  Hardliners win elections, thanks in part to Trump’s treaty withdrawal

Iran goes from Bad to Worse: Hardliners win elections, thanks in part to Trump’s treaty withdrawal

(Progressive.org) – ‘TEHRAN—The parliamentary candidates had rented a large hall for a campaign rally, but only a few hundred supporters showed up. They came to […]

Reese Erlich

Israel/ Palestine
Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start . . .

Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start . . .

(Middle East Monitor) – The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. […]

Asa Winstanley

Displaced and Refugees
Targeting Muslims, India is Abolishing Birthright Citizenship

Targeting Muslims, India is Abolishing Birthright Citizenship

By Rahul Sambaraju and Suryapratim Roy | – The fallout from two controversial changes to citizenship laws continues to rock India. At least 35 people […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
Turkey mobilizes for war with Syria and Russia as Nearly 3 Dozen Turkish Troops Killed

Turkey mobilizes for war with Syria and Russia as Nearly 3 Dozen Turkish Troops Killed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that nearly three dozen Turkish soldiers in a barracks in Syria were killed Friday by an air […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Iran: No Justice for Bloody Crackdown (HRW)

Iran: No Justice for Bloody Crackdown (HRW)

Unlawful Lethal Force, Families Threatened, Cover-Ups

Human Rights Watch

Democratic Socialism
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 […]

The Conversation

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

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