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Assaults on US Academic Freedom:  Acquiescence and Resistance
Academic Freedom

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance

H. Scott Prosterman

Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history

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Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

11/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

11/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Latin America
Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

The Pentagon has so far destroyed 18 go-fast boats there and in the Pacific Ocean. No evidence has been presented that those were drug ships

Greg Grandin

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Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember

Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember

then he got involved in the student movement. It was the height of the Vietnam war.

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

The perfect little story of a small nation fighting for survival amid ‘hordes of Arabs and Muslims’ is rapidly collapsing.

Ramzy Baroud

Academic Freedom
Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

The symposium aims to examine how the question of Palestine fits into contemporary European political and scholarly dynamics.

Middle East Studies Association

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Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza

Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza

UNICEF said “1 in 5 infants have missed out on one or more vaccines. This is a big jump ahead of us in the coming days.”

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Former al-Qaeda leader invited to White House, Peaceful Muslim Mayor gets Cold Shoulder

Former al-Qaeda leader invited to White House, Peaceful Muslim Mayor gets Cold Shoulder

Two prominent young Muslim figures have had an exceptional rise to power this year: Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria and Zohran Mamdani in New York City

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.

Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.

In 2024, Columbia kept the campus locked down. It put in place so many rules governing protests that it effectively quashed

Tomdispatch

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Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel

Syrian President Meets Trump, Pledges to fight ISIL and seek Security Pact with Israel

Al-Sharaa and his delegation had as their primary goal the lifting of US Caesar Act sanctions, which have crippled Syria’s reconstruction

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

The world is preparing to rebuild Gaza but Few are ready for the Climate Cost

Making Gaza livable again will require a global effort on an unprecedented scale

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