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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

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Climate Change
Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: *Not* Implementing it is too Expensive

Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: *Not* Implementing it is too Expensive

Compared to Asia and Europe, the United States is a transportation embarrassment

John Feffer

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Racism v. Racist:  Why Brenda Lawrence and Rashida Tlaib are Right

Racism v. Racist: Why Brenda Lawrence and Rashida Tlaib are Right

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As I noted yesterday, in Michael Cohen’s opening statement during his public testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Carbon farming: how smart agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change

Carbon farming: how smart agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change

Peat soils are immensely carbon-rich

The Conversation

Climate Change
Britain sees Hottest Winter Day in Recorded History as Global Heating Accelerates

Britain sees Hottest Winter Day in Recorded History as Global Heating Accelerates

Northern Europe’s ‘Year with no Winter’

AFP

Iran
Iran’s Religious Leaders Keep Foreign Minister Zarif on to pursue European Diplomacy

Iran’s Religious Leaders Keep Foreign Minister Zarif on to pursue European Diplomacy

Zarif has battled hardline resistance in parliament to new legislation tackling money laundering and terrorism financing

AFP

Donald Trump
Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement

Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement

“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . ”

Juan Cole

Venezuela
The Trojan Horse of US "Aid" to Venezuela

The Trojan Horse of US “Aid” to Venezuela

The arc of U.S. militarism across the 20th century and into the 21st is neither moral nor does it bend toward justice.

H. Patricia Hynes

censorship
In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty

In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty

Beirut (AFP) – “The crackdown on civil society actors and political opponents increased significantly in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia,” the rights watchdog said in […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
The Survival of the Richest:  The Real Wall

The Survival of the Richest: The Real Wall

Money keeps flowing upward through banks and speculation, while the economic lives of those not at the top have largely remained stagnant

Nomi Prins

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Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

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