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The Gulf Cooperation Council, NATO, and the Collapse of Collective Security
Donald Trump

The Gulf Cooperation Council, NATO, and the Collapse of Collective Security

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Within the span of 24 hours in early September, Russia deployed drones into Polish airspace, and […]

Federal Court:  Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

Federal Court: Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

10/01/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

Veterans for Peace and Justice: Can Warriors Stop Endless Wars?

Veterans for Peace and Justice: Can Warriors Stop Endless Wars?

10/01/2025 By William D. Hartung

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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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Forty Years Later, US and Iran still Haunted by Embassy Hostage Crisis

Forty Years Later, US and Iran still Haunted by Embassy Hostage Crisis

(Informed Comment) – The 4th November 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis that has dominated and poisoned Iran-US relations ever since. […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Donald Trump
Trump in Blunder-land or Down the Rabbit-Hole

Trump in Blunder-land or Down the Rabbit-Hole

(Tomdispatch.com) – There can be no question about it. Donald Trump is Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts. “Off with his head!” was the president’s essential […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Biggest Iraqi Crowds in History Demand changes in Bush Constitution

Biggest Iraqi Crowds in History Demand changes in Bush Constitution

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dubai’s Al-Akhbar al-An reports that further large demonstrations broke out in Iraq on Saturday, leaving 91 wounded and one dead. […]

Juan Cole

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
ISIL and Donald Trump’s Delusion

ISIL and Donald Trump’s Delusion

Despite al-Baghdadi’s death, Trump is creating the conditions groups like ISIS thrive in

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
To Address Climate Change, We Need to Take Back the Supreme Court

To Address Climate Change, We Need to Take Back the Supreme Court

By Thom Hartmann | – (Via Yes! Magazine) – There were those among the founders and framers of the Constitution who didn’t mean for the […]

Yes! Magazine

Climate Crisis
Why the California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age

Why the California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age

By Stephen Pyne | – Another autumn, more fires, more refugees and incinerated homes. For California, flames have become the colors of fall. Free-burning fire […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
Syria’s Al-Assad:  Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

Syria’s Al-Assad: Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrian strongman (and mass murderer) Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Syrian media in which he expressed his happiness that […]

Juan Cole

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