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Shamash! "Victory over Carbon"

5 days ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

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Except for Israel: US Military Aid forbidden to Human Rights Violators by the Leahy Law

5 days ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On December 17, 2024, a group of Palestinian and Palestinian-Americans filed a complaint against the State Department with one simple ask: That the Department obey the Leahy law with regard to Israel. The Leahy law prohibits U.S. assistance to foreign security force units credibly implicated in gross violations of human rights.
Israeli Genocide in Gaza: Dwarf Babies, 300% Spike in Miscarriages, 4K Malnourished Expectant Mothers

5 days ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

( Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, which has lasted for over 560 days, has killed over 50,000 people, including more than 16,000 children. This includes nearly 200 infants who were born and martyred during the war. A UN investigation concluded that the occupying forces committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip through the systematic destruction of reproductive healthcare facilities.
South Africa's Ambitious Renewable Energy Masterplan involves Solar Manufacturing

5 days ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

By Ricardo Amansure, Stellenbosch University(The Conversation) – About 85% of South Africa’s electricity is produced by burning coal. The country’s move to renewable energy means that the coal industry will be phased out. To this end, the South African cabinet recently approved the country’s first renewable energy masterplan, which sets out what’s needed to establish new renewable energy industries.
Trump Administration to drawn Down Troop Presence in New, Fundamentalist Syria

6 days ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tara Copp at AP reports that the Trump administration will withdraw some of the 2000 troops now based in southeastern Syria. Some 600 will come out, leaving about 1400. The US has 8 small bases there and will close 3 of them.
African American History and the Black Civil Rights Movement teach us how to Confront Trump

6 days ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

By Douglas H. White( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender. One-hundred-and-one-year-old Colonel James H. Harvey, one of the last of the famed Tuskegee airmen of World War II, blamed Trump, saying, “I’ll tell him to his face. No problem.
Mideast Peace Depends on an unlikely Trump-Iran Nuclear Deal

6 days ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

By Simon Mabon, Lancaster UniversityFor the second week in a row, senior officials from the United States and Iran will get together to take part in talks about the Iranian nuclear programme. It’s the second round in the latest negotiations – the first having taken place in Oman on April 12.
French President Macron demands Immediate Gaza Ceasefire, Resumption of Civilian Aid, Palestinian State

1 week ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by telephone Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Paris’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state. Macron insisted on a ceasefire in Gaza and told Netanyahu that it was the only hope for retrieving the remaining Israeli hostages from Gaza. Macron wrote at “X” that he had reaffirmed France’s commitment to Israel’s security.
Turkey's Youth on the Frontlines of Protests

1 week ago | juancole.com | Arzu Geybullayeva |Juan Cole

High school students have now joined university students in protests that have rocked the country since March 19( Global Voices ) – Ever sinceMarch 19, when Istanbul’s popular mayor and main opposition party’s presidential candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was first detained, then arrested, on bogus corruption and terrorism charges, Turkey has been rocked by mass protests. While the demography of protesters spans across all age groups and professions, university students have been at the forefront.
Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US

1 week ago | juancole.com | Juan Cole

By Tariq Kenney-Shawa | –( Al-Shabaka ) – On October 7, 2024, marking one year since Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the conservative DC-based Heritage Foundation introduced Project Esther as their latest and most brazen effort yet to crush Palestinian solidarity. Framed as an initiative to combat antisemitism, Project Esther exclusively targets voices and groups critical of the Israeli regime.