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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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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 Noel’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Use of Military Force in Iran could Backfire on Trump

The Use of Military Force in Iran could Backfire on Trump

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

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Racing toward a Mad Max World

Racing toward a Mad Max World

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

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Bill of Rights
California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

H. Scott Prosterman

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Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Reports of Large-Scale Killings in Iran under cover of internet blackout

Human Rights Watch

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How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

Iranian diaspora communities and non-Iranians alike have used social media to share concerns about the internet blackout

The Conversation

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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?

Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?

One hospital in Tehran has received more than 70 corpses of demonstrators shot in the head and chest by security guards

Farhang Jahanpour

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