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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

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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

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

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Protesting U of Minnesota Barring Students from Campus for Protesting Gaza War

Protesting U of Minnesota Barring Students from Campus for Protesting Gaza War

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Rebecca M. Cunningham President, University of Minnesota upres@umn.edu . . . Dear President Cunningham […]

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UC Berkeley scholars warn that “with plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dismantle key climate […]

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Israeli Attacks on Lebanese Medics Apparent War Crimes: Israel’s Allies should Suspend Arms Sales

Israeli Attacks on Lebanese Medics Apparent War Crimes: Israel’s Allies should Suspend Arms Sales

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked medical workers and healthcare facilities in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch […]

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Israel’s Relations with the UN have hit a new Low with ban on UN Relief and Works Agency

Israel’s Relations with the UN have hit a new Low with ban on UN Relief and Works Agency

By Lisa Strömbom, Lund University | – (The Conversation) – Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, […]

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How did the Mideast become a Nuclear Flashpoint?

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Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The state of world politics since the end of the Cold War has been marked by […]

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Israel’s Wars and Occupation Today are not about Self Defense

Israel’s Wars and Occupation Today are not about Self Defense

By Stephen R. Shalom | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – “Israel has the right to defend itself,” President Joseph Biden, Vice President Kamala […]

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by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – The timing, as with so much in the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was […]

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