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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

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Climate Crisis
11,000 scientists warn: Climate Crisis Could reach Point of No Return

11,000 scientists warn: Climate Crisis Could reach Point of No Return

By Thomas Newsome and William Ripple | – Exactly 40 years ago, a small group of scientists met at the world’s first climate conference in […]

The Conversation

Hizbullah
The Iraqi and Lebanese Popular uprisings Caught between Iranian and Israeli Geopolitics

The Iraqi and Lebanese Popular uprisings Caught between Iranian and Israeli Geopolitics

By Oraib Al-Rantawi | @OraibAlRantawi It is not only Iran that is paying close attention to the uprisings of the Iraqi and Lebanese people; Israel […]

Middle East Monitor

National Security State
America: Bases, Bases, Everywhere, and Not a Base in Sight

America: Bases, Bases, Everywhere, and Not a Base in Sight

( Tomdispatch.com) – They called it Castle Black, an obvious homage to the famed frozen citadel from the HBO series Game of Thrones. In the […]

Nick Turse

Israel/ Palestine
Is Microsoft Funding Israeli Spying on Palestinians?

Is Microsoft Funding Israeli Spying on Palestinians?

(Middle East Monitor) – The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking […]

Ramzy Baroud

Human Rights
Saudi Arabia's  High Cost of 'Reform:' Arrests, Torture, Murder

Saudi Arabia’s High Cost of ‘Reform:’ Arrests, Torture, Murder

Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – Important social reforms enacted under Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have been accompanied by deepening repression and abusive […]

Human Rights Watch

Displaced and Refugees
Syrian Kurds charge Turkey with Ethnic Cleansing as US Military frets it will be "blind" without Kurdish Help

Syrian Kurds charge Turkey with Ethnic Cleansing as US Military frets it will be “blind” without Kurdish Help

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northeast Syria today accused Turkish forces of conducting ethnic cleansing campaigns in the Kurdish region […]

Juan Cole

Hizbullah
Hezbollah: What Lebanon's Protests against Sectarian Elite Mean for the Party-Militia

Hezbollah: What Lebanon’s Protests against Sectarian Elite Mean for the Party-Militia

By Adham Saouli | – The national uprising that has engulfed Lebanon since mid-October is historic and revolutionary. Protests have continued across Lebanon, even after […]

The Conversation

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Top 6 Problems with Trump Taking Syrian Oil

Top 6 Problems with Trump Taking Syrian Oil

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump keeps talking about taking Syrian oil. In fact, many of those 1,000 special operations troops he pulled out, sending […]

Juan Cole

censorship
No Premature Burial for Academic Freedom: Speaking up in Ann Arbor

No Premature Burial for Academic Freedom: Speaking up in Ann Arbor

By Chandler Davis | – (Informed Comment) – Let me make a case for urgency of defense of academic freedom. I’m not addressing the whole […]

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Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

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