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As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note
Authoritarianism

As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

Arnold Oliver

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the […]

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

10/02/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

10/02/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Crisis
California's Wildfire Electricity Blackouts are a Taste of Climate Apocalypse to Come

California’s Wildfire Electricity Blackouts are a Taste of Climate Apocalypse to Come

By Abrahm Lustgarten | ( ProPublica) | – PG&E’s rolling blackouts probably don’t eliminate fire risk, and they actually could make responding to fires harder. […]

ProPublica

Donald Trump
Did Trump just reward Turkish Pres. Erdogan for Obeying Putin?

Did Trump just reward Turkish Pres. Erdogan for Obeying Putin?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I asked last week how it could be that Trump greenlighted the Turkish invasion of northern Syrian and the ethnic […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Trump, Johnson, Erdogan: The International Alt-Right’s Bluster and Surrender

Trump, Johnson, Erdogan: The International Alt-Right’s Bluster and Surrender

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – From the U.S. to the U.K. to Turkey, it is a hallmark of right-wing populists to make a preposterous policy […]

John Feffer

nuclear weapons
Given tensions with Erdogan, is it really Wise for the U.S. to Keep 50 Nuclear Bombs in Turkey?

Given tensions with Erdogan, is it really Wise for the U.S. to Keep 50 Nuclear Bombs in Turkey?

By Miles A. Pomper | – As the Syrian crisis pits Turkish troops against former U.S.-allied Kurdish forces, Pentagon officials have been reviewing plans to […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
She deserves our support: Rep. Betty McCollum wants US to stop subsidising torture of Palestinian children

She deserves our support: Rep. Betty McCollum wants US to stop subsidising torture of Palestinian children

( Middle East Monitor ) – In December 2018, 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in […]

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
Unlike Trump, Putin faces down Turkey on Plans for Massive Syria Incursion

Unlike Trump, Putin faces down Turkey on Plans for Massive Syria Incursion

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With Trump and his special operations troops out of Syria, it fell to Russia to deal with Turkey’s invasion of […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Deportation to Syria could mean death for women, children and LGBTQ refugees in Turkey

Deportation to Syria could mean death for women, children and LGBTQ refugees in Turkey

Deina Abdelkader | – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan isn’t limiting his assault on neighboring Syria to attacking Kurdish troops that run the country’s northern […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
On Anniversary of Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre: US Jews a Face Trump-Fuelled Far Right and a Fringe Left

On Anniversary of Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre: US Jews a Face Trump-Fuelled Far Right and a Fringe Left

(Informed Comment) – October 27 marks the one-year anniversary of the Tree of Life Congregation massacre in Pittsburgh. This was a result of President Donald […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Donald Trump
MACA or Making America Crueler Again: Targeting Refugees and the Helpless

MACA or Making America Crueler Again: Targeting Refugees and the Helpless

(Tomdispatch.com) – On September 26th, President Donald Trump’s White House announced that, in 2020, refugee admissions to the United States will be limited to 18,000, […]

Arnold R. Isaacs

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