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Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing
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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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Stop It! Fracking Can't be Done in a way that doesn't Threaten Human Life

Stop It! Fracking Can’t be Done in a way that doesn’t Threaten Human Life

By Barbara Gottlieb | – Over 1,500 reports show there’s simply no safe way to do it — and it’s harming us all every day […]

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Climate Change
Combatting the Climate Emergency: The Chinese Path or the Green New Deal?

Combatting the Climate Emergency: The Chinese Path or the Green New Deal?

(Tomdispatch.com ) – At its best, the earth was once likened to a spaceship that sails through the heavens with a crew working together for […]

John Feffer

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Expert Letter on Deescalating with Iran (Bacevich, Cole, Esposito et al.)

Expert Letter on Deescalating with Iran (Bacevich, Cole, Esposito et al.)

Via NIAC: July 30, 2019 As foreign-policy practitioners with decades of collective experience in national security and diplomacy, we write to warn that U.S.-Iran tensions […]

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Climate Change
The Climate Emergency comes for the Democrats

The Climate Emergency comes for the Democrats

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite the reluctance of corporate America, its cable news channels and its favorite candidates to tackle the looming menace of […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Russian Twitter trolls stoke anti-Immigrant & anti-Muslim lies, and not Just in US

Russian Twitter trolls stoke anti-Immigrant & anti-Muslim lies, and not Just in US

By Ahmed Al-Rawi and Yasmin Jiwani | – Russian troll activity on Twitter aimed at influencing public opinion has attracted a lot of attention in […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel Summons 5-year-old for Police Interrogation

Israel Summons 5-year-old for Police Interrogation

Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was summoned by the Israeli police to be interrogated; the summons was handed to his family in occupied Jerusalem, who had to […]

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Climate Change
Climate denial: Donald Trump mimics criminal behaviour when justifying his stance

Climate denial: Donald Trump mimics criminal behaviour when justifying his stance

By Ruth McKie | – While much of the world now recognises the need for immediate action, there are still those who question the scientific […]

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Saving the Planet: Can Global Solar Power be Crowd-Funded? Germany's "Green Energy Valley"

Saving the Planet: Can Global Solar Power be Crowd-Funded? Germany’s “Green Energy Valley”

By Freja Eriksen | – German start-up Ecoligo has created a crowd investment structure to encourage the expansion of solar power in developing countries, writes […]

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Why Trump let Saudi Arabia and UAE censor his "America First" Speech on Energy

Why Trump let Saudi Arabia and UAE censor his “America First” Speech on Energy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Sunday the NYT revealed that Trump’s staff ran his May, 2016 speech on “America First” by Saudi Arabia and […]

Juan Cole

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