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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

06/23/2025 By The Conversation

No Kings!  This is What Democracy Looks Like

No Kings! This is What Democracy Looks Like

06/23/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Israel/ Palestine
MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses

MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses

The attacks, assaults, and detentions described above are grave violations of basic rights to education and academic freedom.

Judith E. Tucker

Far Right
White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump's Wall

White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump’s Wall

The wall would be “a powerful architectural statement of the determination of the American people to defend their nation and its Anglo-Saxon heritage”

AFP

Donald Trump
Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children

Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can't Escape Spotlight

From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can’t Escape Spotlight

New Human Rights Watch Report out Now

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
Climate Stress drove Wave of Arab Spring Refugees

Climate Stress drove Wave of Arab Spring Refugees

Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries, forcing people to flee

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
US Uses Migrant Children as 'Bait' to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit

US Uses Migrant Children as ‘Bait’ to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit

Some 10,000 migrant children being held in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters are being denied due process rights as asylum seekers, the lawsuit argues. […]

TeleSur

Syria
Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds

Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds

Beirut (AFP) – Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” […]

AFP

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Trump's anti-Iran Warsaw Conference Collapsing, as Russia says Iran should have been Invited

Trump’s anti-Iran Warsaw Conference Collapsing, as Russia says Iran should have been Invited

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a conference on security in the Middle East for […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018

With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018

By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – A report by a private research company found that U.S. emissions, which amount to one-sixth of the […]

ProPublica

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