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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

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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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Medicide: Israel’s Attacks on Clinics and Hospitals in Gaza are War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: UN

Medicide: Israel’s Attacks on Clinics and Hospitals in Gaza are War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: UN

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Earlier this month the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory issued a report demanding that […]

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As Middle East Crisis Escalates, Hopes For Diplomatic Solution Dim

As Middle East Crisis Escalates, Hopes For Diplomatic Solution Dim

By Michael Scollon ( RFE/RL RFE/RL ) – Israel’s two-front war in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, as well as the threat of escalation with […]

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How Dangerous anti-Protest Laws can Silence the Climate Movement

( ) – In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of […]

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The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy

The Yemen Model and Failed US Middle East Policy

Review of Alexandra Stark, “The Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East” (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024). Munich, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core

With northern Gaza Desperate and Hungry, Israel’s Actions are shaking the World Order to its Core

By Tristan Dunning, Macquarie University; Martin Kear, University of Sydney; and Shannon Brincat, University of the Sunshine Coast | – (The Conversation) – While the […]

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Time to look at history from the point of view of the arms industry?

Time to look at history from the point of view of the arms industry?

How did we end up in a situation where there is increasing talk of an emerging Third World War? A look back at a century […]

Anne-Ruth Wertheim

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If one Thing can Unite Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon, it is Israeli Aggression

If one Thing can Unite Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon, it is Israeli Aggression

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Prior to the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, the popularity of Hezbollah, within and outside of […]

Mohamed Jegham

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The Myth of Greater Israel and Zionist Expansionism

The Myth of Greater Israel and Zionist Expansionism

( The New Arab ) – On October 7 2023, Hamas breached the 17-year-long Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip with a brutal, coordinated attack on […]

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The Global War on Children

The Global War on Children

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “War is not healthy for children and other living things,” reads a poster titled “Primer” created by the late artist Lorraine […]

Nick Turse

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