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Donald Trump
When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

Mitchell Zimmerman

Kristi Noem’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence

Israel/ Palestine
A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

Binoy Kampmark

Israel razed over 2,500 buildings in the Strip since the ceasefire with Hamas commenced on 10 October, 2025.

Donald Trump
Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Clarence Lusane

Vance embraces White nationalists like Nick Fuentes and unrepentant conspiracists

Donald Trump
Trump’s Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America’s New Protection Racket

Trump’s Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America’s New Protection Racket

Scott Corey

Among authoritarians, economics exists for the sake of political extraction, and private wealth is only permitted on condition of complicity

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s assaults on Palestinian Universities and targeting the Academic Sector

Israel’s assaults on Palestinian Universities and targeting the Academic Sector

Middle East Studies Association

Protesting Israel’s assaults on Palestinian universities and its targeting of students and faculty in the occupied West Bank and Gaza

Iran
Beyond Boiling Point: Historic Iranian Protests Continue Despite Blackouts, Repression

Beyond Boiling Point: Historic Iranian Protests Continue Despite Blackouts, Repression

Truthdig

Unverified reports suggest thousands of people may have been killed, while Trump threatens the country with military intervention

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The Inevitable Transition in Iran

The Inevitable Transition in Iran

Bernard Hourcade

Economic grievances are now directly tied to the functioning and political structure of the Islamic Republic itself

Donald Trump
The Use of Military Force in Iran could Backfire on Trump

The Use of Military Force in Iran could Backfire on Trump

The Conversation

A US strike would almost certainly hand Iran’s security apparatus the very narrative it seeks: an existential battle for national survival

Climate Crisis
Racing toward a Mad Max World

Racing toward a Mad Max World

Stan Cox

Environmental disasters and their destructiveness are only ratcheting up in step with increases in global greenhouse-gas emissions

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