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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad
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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – Osamah F. Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard […]

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

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Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

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The Real Evil Empire May Surprise You

The Real Evil Empire May Surprise You

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of […]

William J. Astore

Authoritarianism
American Psycho: Trump’s Delusional Crusade Transforms America into a Pariah State

American Psycho: Trump’s Delusional Crusade Transforms America into a Pariah State

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In Franz Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa awakens to “find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin” — a […]

Dan Dinello

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Expulsion and Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan

Expulsion and Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan

  by  Binoy Kampmark Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into conditions of […]

Middle East Monitor

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Australia is the Renewables Nation after Labor’s Win

Australia is the Renewables Nation after Labor’s Win

By Wesley Morgan, UNSW Sydney and Ben Newell, UNSW Sydney An emphatic election victory for the incumbent Labor government means Australia’s rapid shift to renewable […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump halts Bombing of Yemen, Reportedly under Saudi Pressure, and to Dismay of Israel

Trump halts Bombing of Yemen, Reportedly under Saudi Pressure, and to Dismay of Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Middle East Eye reports that Saudi Arabia pressured the Trump administration to cease bombing Yemen in advance of his planned […]

Juan Cole

GCC
GCC Energy stands as the ‘Superman’ of Global Energy Markets

GCC Energy stands as the ‘Superman’ of Global Energy Markets

  by Dr Elif Selin Calik The energy sector of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries represents the ‘Superman’ of global energy markets according to both […]

Middle East Monitor

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Sports are not Enough to Distract us from Continuous Trump

Sports are not Enough to Distract us from Continuous Trump

By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com ) – If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping […]

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Israel Announces New Campaign in Gaza aimed at Complete Occupation and Confining Palestinians to Southern Enclave

Israel Announces New Campaign in Gaza aimed at Complete Occupation and Confining Palestinians to Southern Enclave

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mahmoud Mujadala at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the spokesman for the Israeli army, Effie Defrin, announced Monday […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Pope’s final Wish: his Car to become a mobile Clinic for Gaza’s Children

Pope’s final Wish: his Car to become a mobile Clinic for Gaza’s Children

( Middle East Monitor ) – Swedish Television announced on Sunday a humanitarian initiative to convert the late Pope Francis’s car—used during his 2014 visit […]

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