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

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

01/17/2026 By Human Rights Watch

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

01/17/2026 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

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

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Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Vance embraces White nationalists like Nick Fuentes and unrepentant conspiracists

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

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

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

Scott Corey

Israel/ Palestine
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

Middle East Studies Association

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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Climate Crisis
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

Stan Cox

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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