Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I […]
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After Trump’s Breach, Iran said it Would Withdraw from Some of the Nuclear Deal: It Hasn’t
(Informed Comment) – In early May, on the anniversary of US withdrawal from the JCPOA, Iran announced that in view of US violations of the […]
Saudi Arabia erases Science, Blocks Progress at Bonn Climate Summit, Pushing Dirty Oil
If this Makes you Angry, buy an Electric Car
Watching another of America’s Forgotten Wars from Libyan Rooftops
( Tomdispatch.com ) – TRIPOLI, Libya — Sometimes war sounds like the harsh crack of gunfire and sometimes like the whisper of the wind. This […]
Dear Jared Kushner: The Real Deal of the Century would be Decolonizing Palestine at Last
By Ramona Wadi | @walzerscent | – Palestinians have rejected the Manama summit taking place today for several legitimate reasons – all pointing to how […]
Why Tiffany Caban’s Win for Queens DA is Good News For Progressive Dem Presidential Candidates
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is very close, with only an 1,100-vote margin and 3400 absentee ballots to be counted, but it appears to […]
US-Iran Tensions Keep Growing with No Move to Negotiate in Sight
By Scott Lucas | – Washington and Tehran are locked in a political, economic, and propagandist confrontation – and there is no apparent way out. […]
On Iran, It’s Trump vs. Trump
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – What would it take to talk Trump out of war with Iran? A good, ripping yarn about peace — with […]
Why Trump Can’t Win by Ramping up Sanctions on Iran
By Natasha Lindstaedt | – After Iran shot down a US drone that allegedly entered Iran’s airspace, Donald Trump signed new sanctions against Iran on […]
No, Iranian President Rouhani didn’t Call Trump “mentally Retarded”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The New York Times and other Western news outlets reported on a speech of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani that expressed […]