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Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?
Bahrain

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers – Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

03/03/2026 By Norman Solomon

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

03/02/2026 By Dan Steinbock

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Consumption
Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

In the effort to keep GDP growing, many products are made to be used only once, to go out of style, or to break after minimal use

Mike Nickerson

Climate Crisis
Trumped!  The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

So, make that five or more flaming years of Trump working to shut down or at least endlessly stall

Tom Engelhardt

China
Could China’s EVs be the Real Winner of Trump’s Oil War in Iran and the Gulf?

Could China’s EVs be the Real Winner of Trump’s Oil War in Iran and the Gulf?

The IRGC announced that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, and there are reports of British and other vessels turning around

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Iran Strike: Democrats call for immediate Vote on Trump War Powers

Iran Strike: Democrats call for immediate Vote on Trump War Powers

there is no consensus for another interminable war in the Middle East,” Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois said.

Michigan Advance

Donald Trump
The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games

The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games

There is no strategy, because realizing the ostensible macro purpose of each war, besides having it, requires committing to an absurd and criminal totality

Truthdig

Donald Trump
Iran: Was Washington Reframing its Red Line before Israel Attacked?

Iran: Was Washington Reframing its Red Line before Israel Attacked?

Such recalibration does not necessarily signal concession. It may reflect caution.

Peiman Salehi

Omar Khayyam
“In Infinite Pursuit:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:39

“In Infinite Pursuit:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:39

In the original, the abstract philosophers are castigated for being prisoners of dry reason and discernment.

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Critiquing Israel is not Anti-Semitism: The American Psychological Association

Critiquing Israel is not Anti-Semitism: The American Psychological Association

definitions of antisemitism recognize that antisemitism involves prejudice, discrimination, harassment, hatred, or violence against Jews as Jews

Roy Eidelson

Academic Freedom
Protesting U of N. Carolina Permitting Secret Recording in Classrooms

Protesting U of N. Carolina Permitting Secret Recording in Classrooms

we are attuned to the pressures to restrict and repress speech related to, for example, Israel, Palestine, US policy in the Middle East

Committee on Academic Freedom

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