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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
Donald Trump

Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Israel/ Palestine
Why Hunger Strikes? Most of the 800,000 Palestinians who have cycled through Israeli Jails haven't Committed a Crime

Why Hunger Strikes? Most of the 800,000 Palestinians who have cycled through Israeli Jails haven’t Committed a Crime

One of the many ways in which Israel seeks to oppress and control the Palestinian population is by imprisoning those who lead the resistance to […]

Ramzy Baroud

Democratic Party
The Democrats can Crush unpopular Trump in 2020, but only if they Run to the Left

The Democrats can Crush unpopular Trump in 2020, but only if they Run to the Left

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new CNN/SSRS poll of about 1,000 people shows that among a random sample of registered voters, Bernie Sanders and […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Socialism
The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism

The policies they’re attacking are enormously popular with America’s workaday majority

Jim Hightower

Arab Spring
How the Mideast Officer Corps and Trump derailed the Arab Spring-- and Hope

How the Mideast Officer Corps and Trump derailed the Arab Spring– and Hope

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Al-Shebab,” said my student Jerry early in the fall 2010 semester. “We’re calling our small group al-Shebab. It means ‘The Youth.’” […]

Rebecca Gordon

Israel/ Palestine
Did Saudi Arabia offer Palestine Pres. Mahmoud Abbas Billions to bow to Kushner ‘Deal of Century’?

Did Saudi Arabia offer Palestine Pres. Mahmoud Abbas Billions to bow to Kushner ‘Deal of Century’?

Abbas said it would “mean the end of my political life,” according to sources

Maan News Agency

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Super-Majority of Arab Youth in New Poll say Religion too Important in Public Life

Super-Majority of Arab Youth in New Poll say Religion too Important in Public Life

Fully 79%, almost 4 in 5, say that the Arab world desperately needs to reform its religious institutions

Juan Cole

Yemen
The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War:  UN

The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War: UN

If the war were to end in 2019, the UNDP projects it would account for 140,000 deaths of children under the age of 5

Middle East Monitor

Bill of Rights
Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

Why the Assange indictment is a Threat to the US First Amendment

The American government has traditionally abstained from charging publishers of classified information for the crime of publication

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Slo-Mo Ethnic Cleansing: Israel has forced 3,000 Palestinians from their Jerusalem Homes in 15 Years

Slo-Mo Ethnic Cleansing: Israel has forced 3,000 Palestinians from their Jerusalem Homes in 15 Years

The authorities are deliberately denying Palestinians construction permits

Maan News Agency

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