“These first few months [have resulted] in the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific and medical research, clampdown on any efforts promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), newly aggressive policies for students with loan debt, revoking of visas for international students and more”…. In recent months… [elimination of] programs meant to train scholars and diversify the sciences as part of an effort to […]
Archives for June 2025
How Israel’s Domestic Crises and Netanyahu’s Power Projection are Reshaping the Middle East
By Spyros A. Sofos, Simon Fraser University (The Conversation) – Israel’s recent strikes on Iranian territory have been widely framed as an act of deterrence or yet another episode in a protracted regional rivalry. Such interpretations overlook the deeper motivations behind Israel’s actions. As a global humanities scholar who specializes in Middle Eastern politics, I […]
Republicans and Climate Breakdown: They Know Better
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the annals of national suicide, the present dismantling of the American state will surely rank high. It may not reach the apogee attained by Russia in its final Tsarist days or by Louis XVI in the run-up to the French Revolution, but Great Britain’s Brexit hardly smolders compared to the […]
A Middle East without Nukes
“You can’t bomb away the knowledge” -John Kerry Marg bar means death to… It was chanted after the hostage crisis. Marg bar America. Death to America. Yet, many of the Islamic Republic children came to America to study and prosper. Then it was Marg bar Israel. Death to Israel. Why? Does the Islamic Republic just […]
After Mamdani Victory, Progressives Call for Primary Challenges to Democratic Establishment
“The establishment has never been more weak than they are now,” one advocate told potential progressive candidates. “You need to run.” By Julia Conley | – ( Commondreams.org ) — New York state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani’s victory over disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary was quickly dismissed by some […]
Iranian-Americans Opposed US Attack on Iran, Visa Ban: NIAC Poll
These are the top-level findings of a poll conducted by the National Iranian American Council and YouGov of views of Iranian-Americans. However, note that it was conducted before the Israel-Iran 12-Day War that began on June 12, so some views may have changed. NIAC is the most sensible and best organized of the Iranian-American community […]
The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict
On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with US President Donald Trump on the margins of the NATO summit at the Hague. His office issued a statement afterwards: “Welcoming the ceasefire reached between Israel and Iran through the efforts of U.S. President Trump, President Erdoğan expressed his hope for it to be lasting and […]
How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the elected government of Nicaragua. We agreed that, when our call was […]
Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to protest the intensification of Israel’s assaults on the education sector in the occupied West Bank Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Jürg Lauber, President, UN Human Rights Council Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Kaja Kallas, […]
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