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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 […]
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: […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Israel-created Fuel Shortage in southern Gaza leaves 1.2 Million Civilians without Water
( Middle East Monitor ) – The southern Gaza city of Khan Younis warned Saturday that a week-long fuel shortage has left more than 1.2 […]
Seeds of Resistance: Reviving the Peace Movement in the Age of Trump
( Tomdispatch.com ) – When the election results came in on November 5th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to […]
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