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Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas
Caribbean

Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

Dan Dinello

US forces hit the targeted boat once, then hit it again — the second strike vaporizing two shipwrecked survivors clinging to the wreckage

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Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

12/11/2025 By Middle East Monitor

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

12/11/2025 By The Conversation

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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

Long before Israelis invoked the bible erase a Palestinian homeland another colonizing people sought to remake a land in the image of their God

Max Perry Mueller

Climate Crisis
Climate Breakdown:  Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

The Trump administration announced a new plan to open 1.3 billion acres of coastal waters to new oil and gas drilling

Tom Engelhardt

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Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Address Concerns Before Window for Rights-Respecting Transition Closes

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Mongols of the Golden Horde catapulted the cadavers of plague victims over the wall of the city of Caffa

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he would instruct the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

The United States remains mired in ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine; now Trump is careening blindly into new wars in Latin America

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Climate Crisis
Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

2024 was the hottest year on record in the Middle East, around 1º Celsius (1.8º F.) hotter than the average for 1990-2020

Juan Cole

Corruption
At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

This is not Netanyahu asking for a pardon so much as an attempt by the prime minister to portray himself as a great man wronged by the elite

The Conversation

Colonialism
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary

U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary

In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people.

Tomdispatch

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