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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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Analysis of 184 Israeli Forced Displacement Orders in Gaza shows they are a Crime Against Humanity

Analysis of 184 Israeli Forced Displacement Orders in Gaza shows they are a Crime Against Humanity

Nadia_Hardman ( Human Rights Watch ) – Removing civilians from harm’s way in advance of an attack is the right thing for warring parties to […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Outlook for Palestinians Bleak under a Trump Presidency that will go ‘all the way’ with Netanyahu

Gaza: Outlook for Palestinians Bleak under a Trump Presidency that will go ‘all the way’ with Netanyahu

By Clive Jones, Durham University | – (The Conversation) – The amount of aid reaching Gaza has fallen to an 11-month low according to Israeli […]

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Donald Trump
Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of civic duty by the […]

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Universities
Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy

Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Sally Kornbluth President Sally.kornbluth@mit.edu . . .   Dear President Kornbluth and Colleagues:   […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump
Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power

Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Democracy
Post-Election Beatitude:  Beating the Blues

Post-Election Beatitude: Beating the Blues

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whatever postures our country has projected to the world – shining city on a hill; leader of […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

By by Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with […]

Middle East Monitor

Republican Party
Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Code Pink ) – Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment […]

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Afghanistan
How to Lose a War:  The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan

Review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

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