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Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist
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Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist

Norman Solomon

Trump and his MAGA followers are hardly going to forsake their standard mix of bigotry, anti-immigrant mania and other political toxins

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MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

11/26/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

Ozymandias on the Potomac:  Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

Ozymandias on the Potomac: Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

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The Russia - Iran - Assad ‘Axis of the Vulnerable’ is Cracking in Syria

The Russia – Iran – Assad ‘Axis of the Vulnerable’ is Cracking in Syria

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) – The so-called “axis of the vulnerable” is breaking in Syria. Starting in 2016, Russia and Iran, […]

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Progressives must Act to Protect the most Vulnerable: mere Resistance to Trump is not Enough

Progressives must Act to Protect the most Vulnerable: mere Resistance to Trump is not Enough

By Ira Chernus ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the […]

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“It is like an Apocalypse:” Amnesty International finds Israel is deliberately undertaking Genocide against Palestinians of Gaza

“It is like an Apocalypse:” Amnesty International finds Israel is deliberately undertaking Genocide against Palestinians of Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International has just put out a detailed report based on its own fieldwork and masses of other evidence finding […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel is pushing Political Allies in Congress to outlaw Conversations about the Genocide in Gaza; it won’t Work

Israel is pushing Political Allies in Congress to outlaw Conversations about the Genocide in Gaza; it won’t Work

( The Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will […]

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Syria
The spectacular Capture of Aleppo by Opposition Forces plunges Syria into an uncertain Future

The spectacular Capture of Aleppo by Opposition Forces plunges Syria into an uncertain Future

By Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University (The Conversation) – The forgotten Syrian civil war has again flared up with the spectacular capture of Aleppo by […]

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Shiite Iraqi PM to Türkiye: Baghdad will not be a Mere Spectator as Sunni Radicals take Syria

Shiite Iraqi PM to Türkiye: Baghdad will not be a Mere Spectator as Sunni Radicals take Syria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia’ al-Sudani called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday and read him the riot act […]

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Hizbullah
Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?

Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?

( Code Pink ) – On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both […]

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Donald Trump
Bankrupting the Planet: The Trump Tempest

Bankrupting the Planet: The Trump Tempest

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the […]

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“Trump is the one to Blame” for Current Iran Crisis:  An Interview with Gary Sick (Pt. 2)

“Trump is the one to Blame” for Current Iran Crisis: An Interview with Gary Sick (Pt. 2)

This is part II of Fariba Amini’s two-part interview with Columbia University Political Scientist and former National Security Council Adviser (to President Jimmy Carter) Gary […]

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