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What will Trump's Second Term mean for the Middle East?
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Trabzon, Turkey (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - The U.S. presidential elections are among the most consequential for the Middle East, second only to elections within the region itself. Donald Trump secured a substantial victory against the current U.S. Vice President, Kamala Harris....
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By Laurie Menviel, UNSW Sydney and Gabriel Pontes, UNSW Sydney (The Conversation) - A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down. That’s a problem because this vital system redistributes heat around the world, influencing both temperatures and...
19h ago
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Saudi Arabia Pursues 'Cautious Detente' With Longtime Rival Iran despite Looming Trump 2.0
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By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL ) - Iran and Saudi Arabia have been bitter rivals for decades, vying to lead competing branches of Islam and standing on opposing sides of conflicts in Syria and Yemen. But Tehran and Riyadh have taken major steps to de-escalate tensions and boost cooperation, a move...
19h ago
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Will Washington pressure Ankara to reverse its anti-Israel actions? Turkey Turns Screws on Israel
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By Philip Balboni ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) - Since October 7, 2023, Turkey has occupied an awkward and uncertain role amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza and the cycles of escalatory violence that it has precipitated. A NATO member with long-standing military, economic, and diplomatic ties...
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on Sat, 5AM
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In Six Years, Australia has doubled its Renewable Energy, and 36% of Households have Rooftop Solar
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Australia's Climate Council has issued a new report on clean energy in the country's states. Winter is ending in Australia, but it is worrisome that their August was among the hottest on record this year, presaging a hot dry summer to come, and raising the real...
on Sep 6
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How Campus Protests exposed the Flaws in Higher Education diversity Initiatives
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( Middle East Eye ) - As the school year begins, universities across the United States are confronting their policies on free speech, protest and freedom of assembly. Some are revising these policies to include swift consequences for those who dare to follow what have been student protest norms...
on Sep 6
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'Gaza Yet Stands:' Legendary Journalist Bob Scheer interviews Juan Cole on his new Book
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Legendary journalist Bob Scheer interviewed me about my new book, “Gaza Yet Stands”, for his Scheerpost radio program, which is also available at YouTube . USC explains, 'Robert Scheer has built a reputation for strong social and political writing,' in a career that stretches back to the 1960s,...
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Crackpot U.S. Senator Threatens to Invade Netherlands over ICC Warrants against Israel's Netanyahu
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( Middle East Monitor ) - US Senator, Tom Cotton, has threatened military action against the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, invoking a controversial US law known as “The...
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Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - A small coterie of wealthy Jewish Americans are perversely giddy and glowing over convicted criminal Donald Trump’s election. In contrast, American Jews in less wealthy income groups overwhelmingly voted against the orange authoritarian....
on Fri, 7AM
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The Int'l Criminal Court issues Arrest Warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, charging War Crimes
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By Catherine Gegout, University of Nottingham | - (The Conversation) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader, Mohammed Deif. The court claims both sides have...
on Fri, 6AM
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A Final Speech from the Great Disruptor (If only in my Dreams)
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( Tomdispatch.com ) - My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and “the arc of the moral universe bends slow but…” My Facebook brims with exhortations to focus on the positive, on what we can control, on the next fight. I live in a poor Democratic...
on Fri, 5AM
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Pope Francis Calls for Painstaking Investigation into Whether Israeli War on Gaza is a Genocide
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Pope Francis has a new book, Hope never disappoints. Pilgrims towards a better world. The English version is not out yet, but I was able to find the Italian. It calls for an investigation into whether the Israeli war on Gaza is a genocide. The Pope mentions Gaza on...
on Thu, 8AM
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Analysis of 184 Israeli Forced Displacement Orders in Gaza show they are a Crime Against Humanity
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Nadia_Hardman ( Human Rights Watch ) - Removing civilians from harm’s way in advance of an attack is the right thing for warring parties to do if it’s the only way to protect them. But the laws of war stipulate that this can only be done in narrow circumstances as a temporary measure, and...
on Thu, 6AM
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By Clive Jones, Durham University | - (The Conversation) - The amount of aid reaching Gaza has fallen to an 11-month low according to Israeli figures. And the hijacking, by an armed Palestinian gang, of a convoy of 109 trucks on November 16 has exacerbated the situation. Food prices are soaring...
on Thu, 5AM
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Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down
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Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of civic duty by the American people. Trump was provided a plurality mandate — enough of a match for him to burn America down. The electorate affirmed...
on Wed, 7AM
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Requiem for an Empire: How America's Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power
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( Tomdispatch.com ) - Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that “the demise of the United States as the...
on Wed, 5AM
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Protesting MIT's Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy
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Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | - Sally Kornbluth President Sally.kornbluth@mit.edu . . . Dear President Kornbluth and Colleagues: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to...
on Wed, 5AM
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By by Motasem A Dalloul | - ( Middle East Monitor ) - The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with masses of people flooding the pitch and seating. Everyone is carrying a bag on their back and some clothes. Some are helping sick people or carrying wounded relatives,...
on Tue, 7AM
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Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State
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Code Pink ) - Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and the most certain to provide continuity with all that is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, from Cuba to the Middle East to...
on Tue, 6AM
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Post-Election Beatitude: Beating the Blues
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Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - Whatever postures our country has projected to the world – shining city on a hill; leader of the free world; model of democracy; the indispensable nation; a rules-based order–all have crumbled like a house of cards. Our country’s...
on Tue, 6AM
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Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water
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( Middle East Monitor ) - The southern Gaza city of Khan Younis warned Saturday that a week-long fuel shortage has left more than 1.2 million residents and displaced individuals in the area without access to clean water, amid ongoing Israeli strikes, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the...
on Mon, 5AM
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How to Lose a War: The Story of America's Intervention in Afghanistan
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Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– More than three years have passed since US troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, putting...
on Mon, 5AM
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Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump
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( Tomdispatch.com ) - When the election results came in on November 4th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to power in 1980, or with George W. Bush’s tainted victory over Al Gore in 2000. After some grieving, the first question that...
on Mon, 5AM
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Morocco to double Green Energy in Sahara in anticipation of 2030 World Cup
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The World Cup, disputed territory and green energy are three of the things that increasingly make the world go round, and they are coming together in Morocco. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is even in the background of it all. Morocco's Atalayer reports that Rabat...
on Nov 17
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Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush anticolonial Resistance
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The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-supremacy will likely face in Trump’s America. ( Al Jazeera English ) - Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States marks a shift in US...
on Nov 17
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By Dennis Altman, La Trobe University | - In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel, where he spent half his time with Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who now oppose the occupation. Going to Palestine was “a...
on Nov 17
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Gaza as Israel's AI-Driven High-Tech Genocide: UN
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report on Israeli actions in Gaza concluding that they fit the profile of genocide. The report says, 'The developments in this report lead the Special Committee...
on Nov 16
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Netanyahu and Trump: The Tag Team from a Fascist Hell
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Both Trump and Netanyahu rely on a violent cult of tradition to advance their nationalist agendas and push a global system of apartheid, argues Yoav Litvin. ( The New Arab ) - In what war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “history’s greatest comeback,” sexual...
on Nov 16
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Medicare Advantage: A By-the-Numbers Look at This Profit-Seeking Healthcare Scam
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Proponents claimed it would lower costs and improve health care for seniors. It has achieved neither of those goals; instead, it has become a wildly profitable scheme for private insurance giants. By Emma Curchin, Brandon Novick and Peter Hart | - ( Commondreams.org ) - The quasi-privatized...
on Nov 16
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China opens World's Largest offshore Solar Power Facility, as U.S. Falls Farther Behind
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Solar panels are great sources of energy. We have them on our roof and they have saved us a lot of money, especially in spring-summer-fall. Some observers complain about their bulk compared to the energy they put out, though. I've had engineers argue to me that...
on Nov 15
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A Democracy of Voices, If we can Keep It: Threats to Free Expression in the Trump Era
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By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) - I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it. I even sang “I Like to Be in America” at the top...
on Nov 15
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Human Rights Watch ) | - Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. There is no plausible imperative military reason to justify Israel’s mass...
on Nov 15
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By Debra Benita Shaw, University of East London | - (The Conversation) - Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of space flight set against the urgency of the climate crisis. While a typhoon of life-threatening...
on Nov 14
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Israel's War on Palestinian Health
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Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - Since the beginning of Israel's latest offensive against the Palestinian people in Gaza in October of last year, Israel has targeted the healthcare sector, not only as part of its military strategy but also as a means of genocide. The deliberate...
on Nov 14
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End of empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide render the UN Irrelevant?
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( Middle East Monitor ) - Francesca Albanese did not mince her words. In a strongly worded speech at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on 29 October, the UN Special Rapporteur deviated from the typical line of other UN officials. She directed her statements to those in...
on Nov 14
From juancole.com
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I'm playing around with a superhero story. I'll post panels when I can get to it. I'm using ChatGPT Consistent Character. It is an experiment. Those who are interested, read along! The story is 'Crude Bane.'
on Nov 14
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Creating a Genuine Hell on Earth
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( Tomdispatch.com ) - Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history? And yes, in case you think that, as in his novel 1984, published in 1949, a year before his death and just as the Cold...
on Nov 13
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North Gaza: Israel has blocked or delayed 85% of Humanitarian Aid Requests, says UN
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( Middle East Monitor ) - The United Nations reported that 85 per cent of its requests to coordinate aid convoys and humanitarian access to northern Gaza were either blocked or delayed by Israeli authorities in the past month. According to UN spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, the UN Office for...
on Nov 13
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Los Angeles (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - In our post-election blues, many pundits have started a post-mortem exploration of what went wrong with the Democrats’ optimistic outlook of winning the election, by even the thinnest margins. Explanations of Trump’s and Republican’s sweeping...
on Nov 13
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How the Taliban are seeking to Reshape Afghanistan's Schools to push their Ideology
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By Enayat Nasir, University at Albany, State University of New York | - (The Conversation) - The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was a blow for education across the country – but especially for girls and women. Since then, the Taliban’s leaders have outlawed education for girls after...
on Nov 12