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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

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The Pain Remains: The Living Literature of War

The Pain Remains: The Living Literature of War

( Tomdispatch.com) – Do you remember July 8, 2011? Where you were? What you did? Whom you talked to? Anything at all? I couldn’t pin […]

Nick Turse

China
Israeli PM Netanyahu's Himalayan Miscalculation on Iran: Bringing China into the Mideast

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Himalayan Miscalculation on Iran: Bringing China into the Mideast

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is one of the world players who pushed Trump to breach the 2015 treaty […]

Juan Cole

European Union
Britain's Trump: The Further Failure of Right Wing Populism

Britain’s Trump: The Further Failure of Right Wing Populism

(Informed Comment) – After only six weeks in office, Johnson’s grand plan to leave the European Union with or without a deal by 31 October […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Afghanistan
Will Trump Bring Peace to Afghanistan?  Don't Hold your Breath

Will Trump Bring Peace to Afghanistan? Don’t Hold your Breath

( 48hills.org) – Washington, DC is buzzing with talk of troop withdrawals and the impact on peace talks in Afghanistan. The US may start withdrawing […]

Reese Erlich

China
China Defies Trump on Iran Big time with $400 bn Belt-and-Road Investment, 5000 Security Personnel*

China Defies Trump on Iran Big time with $400 bn Belt-and-Road Investment, 5000 Security Personnel*

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in Beijing recently for what turns out to have been the biggest triumph […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
At Height of Hurricane Disaster Season, Trump moves $100 mn. from FEMA to Jailing Immigrants

At Height of Hurricane Disaster Season, Trump moves $100 mn. from FEMA to Jailing Immigrants

(Otherwords.org) – The Trump administration is moving money away from disaster relief to lock up more immigrants. Donald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits […]

Jill Richardson

Israel/ Palestine
Why ‘moderates’ don’t have a clue what to do about Israel’s settlements

Why ‘moderates’ don’t have a clue what to do about Israel’s settlements

By Ahmed El Kady | – Earlier this month, the High Planning Committee (HPC) of the Israeli Civil Administration authorised the construction of 2,304 new […]

Middle East Monitor

Shiites
What is Ashura? How this Shiite Muslim holiday inspires millions

What is Ashura? How this Shiite Muslim holiday inspires millions

By Noorzehra Zaidi | – Tens of millions of Shiite Muslims from around the world will visit Iraq on Sept. 10 this year to see […]

The Conversation

Brazil
Burning Down the House: Far Right Nihilism in US, UK & Brazil Menaces the Planet

Burning Down the House: Far Right Nihilism in US, UK & Brazil Menaces the Planet

By John Feffer | – (Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Far-right governments in the U.S., UK, and Brazil are laying bare their nihilistic roots […]

John Feffer

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