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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel won’t silence Tlaib, Omar by banning them from entry

Israel won’t silence Tlaib, Omar by banning them from entry

By Kamel Hawwash |@kamelhawwash | – US Representatives, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, a thorn in the side of the American establishment and the pro-Israel […]

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In major Defeat for Trump Warhawks, Gibraltar Releases Iran Tanker, citing European Law

In major Defeat for Trump Warhawks, Gibraltar Releases Iran Tanker, citing European Law

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Aljazeera reports that its correspondent in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Andrew Simmons, confirms that a tanker carrying $140 […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
A Special Postcard: Speaking out against Concentration Camps, by a Survivor

A Special Postcard: Speaking out against Concentration Camps, by a Survivor

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim A special postcard Note 1) Translation in English: Penny Sandford & Wiesje Wijngaarden On 18 December 1944 my mother, my sister, my […]

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America as a Company Town: Royal Dutch Shell Workers in Penna. Coerced to Show up for Trump

America as a Company Town: Royal Dutch Shell Workers in Penna. Coerced to Show up for Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anya Litvak at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a contractor handling the Trump appearance at the Royal Dutch Shell plant […]

Juan Cole

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After Tlaib & Omar are Barred by Netanyahu, why would any Self-Respecting Dem Congressman do the AIPAC Tour Again??

After Tlaib & Omar are Barred by Netanyahu, why would any Self-Respecting Dem Congressman do the AIPAC Tour Again??

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has barred Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting Israel. This is an about-face […]

Juan Cole

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Trump wrong Again: Offshore Wind a "New Industrial Revolution"

Trump wrong Again: Offshore Wind a “New Industrial Revolution”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump is both an ignoramus and a loudmouth, and has used his vast fund of cluelessness to talk down […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
If the US Recognizes Israel's Usurpation of Palestinian West Bank, what will Int'l Community Do?

If the US Recognizes Israel’s Usurpation of Palestinian West Bank, what will Int’l Community Do?

By Ramona Wadi | The UN has advanced no further than acknowledging that Israel is seeking to “advance a claim of sovereignty” over settlements in […]

Middle East Monitor

Desertification
Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East

Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East

Without international diplomacy, the Middle East is going to run out of water — and it won’t be alone.

Conn M. Hallinan

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Trump's Trade War is tanking US Economy & Destroying 70 Years of World Order

Trump’s Trade War is tanking US Economy & Destroying 70 Years of World Order

By Shiro Armstrong |- President Trump’s “America First” agenda is rapidly trashing the global economic system and the rules and norms the US has championed […]

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