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Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing
China

Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Hamdullah Baycar

Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

07/04/2025 By Daanish Faruqi

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

The Trump Team’s Purge of Pentagon Photos Raises Sinister Echoes from the Past

07/04/2025 By Arnold R. Isaacs

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How climate change is driving emigration from Central America

How climate change is driving emigration from Central America

By Miranda Cady Hallett | – Clouds of dust rose behind the wheels of the pickup truck as we hurtled over the back road in […]

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War
The Pain Remains: The Living Literature of War

The Pain Remains: The Living Literature of War

( Tomdispatch.com) – Do you remember July 8, 2011? Where you were? What you did? Whom you talked to? Anything at all? I couldn’t pin […]

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China
Israeli PM Netanyahu's Himalayan Miscalculation on Iran: Bringing China into the Mideast

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Himalayan Miscalculation on Iran: Bringing China into the Mideast

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is one of the world players who pushed Trump to breach the 2015 treaty […]

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European Union
Britain's Trump: The Further Failure of Right Wing Populism

Britain’s Trump: The Further Failure of Right Wing Populism

(Informed Comment) – After only six weeks in office, Johnson’s grand plan to leave the European Union with or without a deal by 31 October […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Afghanistan
Will Trump Bring Peace to Afghanistan?  Don't Hold your Breath

Will Trump Bring Peace to Afghanistan? Don’t Hold your Breath

( 48hills.org) – Washington, DC is buzzing with talk of troop withdrawals and the impact on peace talks in Afghanistan. The US may start withdrawing […]

Reese Erlich

China
China Defies Trump on Iran Big time with $400 bn Belt-and-Road Investment, 5000 Security Personnel*

China Defies Trump on Iran Big time with $400 bn Belt-and-Road Investment, 5000 Security Personnel*

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in Beijing recently for what turns out to have been the biggest triumph […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
At Height of Hurricane Disaster Season, Trump moves $100 mn. from FEMA to Jailing Immigrants

At Height of Hurricane Disaster Season, Trump moves $100 mn. from FEMA to Jailing Immigrants

(Otherwords.org) – The Trump administration is moving money away from disaster relief to lock up more immigrants. Donald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Why ‘moderates’ don’t have a clue what to do about Israel’s settlements

Why ‘moderates’ don’t have a clue what to do about Israel’s settlements

By Ahmed El Kady | – Earlier this month, the High Planning Committee (HPC) of the Israeli Civil Administration authorised the construction of 2,304 new […]

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Shiites
What is Ashura? How this Shiite Muslim holiday inspires millions

What is Ashura? How this Shiite Muslim holiday inspires millions

By Noorzehra Zaidi | – Tens of millions of Shiite Muslims from around the world will visit Iraq on Sept. 10 this year to see […]

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