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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Jazz Great Yusef Lateef’s Journey to Islam

Jazz Great Yusef Lateef’s Journey to Islam

“I want my music to awaken something that’s already in your heart.” (Informed Comment) – Among the hundred-plus African-American jazz musicians who embraced Islam in […]

Shalom Goldman

Israel/ Palestine
Does the Demi Lovato Affair prove that Brand Israel is now toxic?

Does the Demi Lovato Affair prove that Brand Israel is now toxic?

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – “Brand Israel” was launched. As I’ve written before, this public relations strategy was an utter failure. War crimes, […]

Middle East Monitor

Kurds
Kurdish Women Fighters helped Defeat ISIL, & now are a Target of Turkish Invasion

Kurdish Women Fighters helped Defeat ISIL, & now are a Target of Turkish Invasion

By Haidar Khezri | – Kurdish fighters under attack by Turkey have described President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria as […]

The Conversation

Kurds
Turkey’s ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria Would Be Anything But (HRW)

Turkey’s ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria Would Be Anything But (HRW)

Plan Increases Risks for Returned Refugees

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump
Why?  3 Possible reasons Trump is threatening Turkey with Sanctions after Greenlighting Syria Invasion

Why? 3 Possible reasons Trump is threatening Turkey with Sanctions after Greenlighting Syria Invasion

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is slapping sanctions on Turkey for invading northern Syria after Trump told Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan that it would […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Palestinian women successfully defended their village from demolition

How Palestinian women successfully defended their village from demolition

By Sarah Flatto Manasrah | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – One year after Israel gave the green light to demolish Khan al-Amar, the small Bedouin […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Trump's Saigon Evacuation Moment, as US Troops Flee and Syrian/Russian Forces are invited in by Kurds

Trump’s Saigon Evacuation Moment, as US Troops Flee and Syrian/Russian Forces are invited in by Kurds

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For us oldsters, one of the iconic photographs of the twentieth century was the last US military helicopter taking off […]

Juan Cole

Kurds
As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself

As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself

By Mehmet Ozalp | – Turkey did not waste much time in launching an attack on Syrian soil just days after US President Donald Trump […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Amerexit? Trump and the End of the Anglo-American Order

Amerexit? Trump and the End of the Anglo-American Order

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Donald Trump may prove to be the ultimate Brexiteer. Back in August 2016, in the midst of his presidential campaign, he […]

Tom Engelhardt

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