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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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Children
Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers

Karen J. Greenberg

Democracy
Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?

Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?

By Julius Probst | – Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea […]

The Conversation

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Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories

Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories

Some ten percent of greater Copenhagen’s households will be powered by wind turbines set up on 9 artificial islands off its coast

Juan Cole

Qur'an
The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong

The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong

Western accounts have discounted this emphasis that the Qur’an clearly has on peace-building, peace-making, striving against violent conflict.

Juan Cole

Morocco
Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It's "al-Hogra"

Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It’s “al-Hogra”

It is used as a vehicle for social mobilization around overlapping rights such as the right to work, to education, to health, to housing

Hsain Ilahiane

Climate Change
We’re on Course to Miss our “Best Chance” of Stopping Runaway Climate Change by 2020

We’re on Course to Miss our “Best Chance” of Stopping Runaway Climate Change by 2020

An analysis by the World Resources Institute showed that current efforts to limit temperature increases are falling well short.

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers Killed 180, Injured 23,000 Gaza Protesters with Live Fire since March

Israeli Snipers Killed 180, Injured 23,000 Gaza Protesters with Live Fire since March

23,000 Palestinians were injured in 2018 during the March of Return protests including 5183 minor boys, 464 girls and 1437 women

Maan News Agency

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Why Martin Luther King, Jr., would Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Why Martin Luther King, Jr., would Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, at 29, has become a lightning rod. She was recruited to run against a corporate […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
World’s 26 Richest Own Same as Poorest Half of Humanity: Oxfam

World’s 26 Richest Own Same as Poorest Half of Humanity: Oxfam

Piecemeal private services punish poor people and privilege elites

AFP

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