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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade
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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Chinese policy and security circles interpret the tariff threat less as an attempt to alter Iran’s behavior than as a signal to third parties

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

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Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

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Nowhere to Run – The world’s Refugees say, ‘Gimme Shelter’

Nowhere to Run – The world’s Refugees say, ‘Gimme Shelter’

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Think of Donald Trump as, in his own fashion, a creature of climate change. After all, in 2015, he descended that […]

Rebecca Gordon

Iran
Muslims and Jews:  Remembering Jewish School Days in Pre-Revolutionary Tehran

Muslims and Jews: Remembering Jewish School Days in Pre-Revolutionary Tehran

( The Chukogu Shimbun ) – HIROSHIMA —The elegant art deco building of Ettefagh, Iran’s famous Jewish school, still stands on a leafy avenue adjacent […]

Nassrine Azimi

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Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is

Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Shibley Telhami and Michael Hammer have a new commentary out based on their polling at the University of Maryland’s Critical […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
We can end Mass Atrocities in Gaza and Beyond

We can end Mass Atrocities in Gaza and Beyond

Shimri Zameret  ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In the past few weeks, the number of innocent Palestinian civilians killed in attacks by the Israeli government […]

Waging Nonviolence

Corruption
CNN Admits its Policy of Submitting to Israeli Censorship ‘Has Been in Place for Years’

CNN Admits its Policy of Submitting to Israeli Censorship ‘Has Been in Place for Years’

By Julia Conley | – ( Commondreams.org ) – CNN has long been criticized by media analysts and journalists for its deference to the Israeli […]

Common Dreams

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1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times

1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UNICEF’s Executive Director, Catherine Russell, said this week that “Children in Gaza are caught in a nightmare that worsens with […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Government Divided over Settling Israelis in Gaza

Israeli Government Divided over Settling Israelis in Gaza

By Leonie Fleischmann, City, University of London | – After more than 90 days of war in Gaza, in which at least 22,000 Palestinians are […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks

Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks

( Human Rights Watch) – (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities held thousands of workers from Gaza in incommunicado detention for several weeks following the October 7 […]

Human Rights Watch

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Genocide Denialism and the South African Complaint: USG Spokesmen like Kirby are the Goebbels of the 21st Century

Genocide Denialism and the South African Complaint: USG Spokesmen like Kirby are the Goebbels of the 21st Century

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden Administration continues to run a scam on the US public and the world by running interference for the […]

Juan Cole

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