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Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments — You’ll Find Fossil Fuels
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority […]
Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for Freeing Ethiopia’s Dissidents, but Challenges still Await
By Mohammed Girma | – Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. He becomes the 100th Nobel Peace Prize winner, […]
Turkey Shells position of US Special Forces in Syria, almost Provokes Firefight
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tom O’Connor , James LaPorta AND Naveed Jamali at Newsweek report that the Turkish military subjected a position occupied by […]
Turkish Military Operation in Syria puts Large Numbers of Civilians at Risk
Key Concerns Include Unlawful Attacks, Treatment of Displaced People, Arbitrary Arrests
South Africans advise Palestinians on how Apartheid can be Overcome
Ramzy Baroud | @RamzyBaroud | – The way to truly defeat Apartheid: A conversation with Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally “Perhaps the time has come […]
Turkish attack on Syria endangers a remarkable democratic experiment by the Kurds
By James L. Gelvin | – Turkey’s attack on Kurdish-run territory in northern Syria will likely snuff out a radical experiment in self-government that is […]
How the Roberts Court’s ‘Citizens United’ allowed Parnas and Fruman to Buy influence in America
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As I pointed out last week, the most powerful intervention in US politics allowing foreign influence in US elections, which […]
An Expansionist State? Did Israel ever have any intention of honoring either the 1947 Partition Plan or 1967 borders?
By Thomas Suárez | – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex parts of the occupied West Bank if re-elected in last month’s General […]
Did Bush put Iraq on Road to Democracy? Not to Judge by the Violent Crackdown on Protesters
By Balsam Mustafa | – When Muhanad Habib, a 22-year-old Iraqi from the Sadr City district of Baghdad, posted on Facebook in late September, he […]
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