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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

09/15/2025 By Michael T. Klare

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Top 5 Ways Corrupt Corporations spend $200 Mn/ yr. to spread Confusion and Denial about Climate Emergency

Top 5 Ways Corrupt Corporations spend $200 Mn/ yr. to spread Confusion and Denial about Climate Emergency

By Mark Maslin | – The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Syrian Kurds, abandoned by Trump, Face War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing at Hands of Turkey's Fundamentalist Proxies

Syrian Kurds, abandoned by Trump, Face War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing at Hands of Turkey’s Fundamentalist Proxies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human Rights Watch reports that the fundamentalist Arab fighters Turkey brought with it to the Kurdish regions of northeast Iraq […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Winter is Coming: Is Trump Impeaching us rather than the Other Way Around?

Winter is Coming: Is Trump Impeaching us rather than the Other Way Around?

(Tomdispatch.com) – French king Louis XV reputedly said, “Après moi, le déluge.” (“After me, the flood.”) Whether that line was really his remains unclear, but […]

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
Could Trump’s Coddling of Israeli far Right Hasten Collapse of Apartheid Regime?

Could Trump’s Coddling of Israeli far Right Hasten Collapse of Apartheid Regime?

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – (Middle East Monitor) – Last week US President Donald Trump’s administration made a notable move. Secretary of State […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
On Thanksgiving, Let’s Be Thankful we Can Still Address our Climate Emergency: And then Do It

On Thanksgiving, Let’s Be Thankful we Can Still Address our Climate Emergency: And then Do It

Revised for 2019 By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel v. Palestine in Age of Trump:  Annexation is the Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism

Israel v. Palestine in Age of Trump: Annexation is the Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism

( The Middle East Monitor ) – It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements built […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iraq
Kurdish Yazidi Survivors of ISIL Massacre, Female Enslavement, Demand Justice

Kurdish Yazidi Survivors of ISIL Massacre, Female Enslavement, Demand Justice

By Tutku Ayhan and Güneş Murat Tezcür | – It’s been five years since the Islamic State killed 3,100 Yazidi people in Iraq – mostly […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
We’re not Serious about the Climate Emergency: There’s Still no ‘Green New Deal’ Bill in Congress

We’re not Serious about the Climate Emergency: There’s Still no ‘Green New Deal’ Bill in Congress

By Arn Menconi | – (Special to Consortium News) – Today there’s no climate bill to vote on, there’s no bill in the pipeline and […]

Arn Menconi

Donald Trump
Iran and the US Come Closer:  Ayatollah Rick Perry's Evangelical Theology of Trump as God's Chosen is just like Khamenei

Iran and the US Come Closer: Ayatollah Rick Perry’s Evangelical Theology of Trump as God’s Chosen is just like Khamenei

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jay Willis at GQ reports that Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said on Fox and Friends that Trump is God’s […]

Juan Cole

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