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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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Civil War in Israeli Army, Parliament as MPs detain Soldiers for Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners at Vault of Horrors

Civil War in Israeli Army, Parliament as MPs detain Soldiers for Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners at Vault of Horrors

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday, military police raided the Sde Teiman detention center where Palestinian prisoners […]

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War Crime: Israelis Circulating Degrading Sexualized Photos of Palestinian Prisoners

War Crime: Israelis Circulating Degrading Sexualized Photos of Palestinian Prisoners

Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem) – Israeli forces have been publishing degrading photographs and videos of detained Palestinians, including children, a form of inhumane treatment and […]

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The only Way to address the Threat of Microplastics in the Great Lakes is to Cut Plastic Production and Consumption

The only Way to address the Threat of Microplastics in the Great Lakes is to Cut Plastic Production and Consumption

By Lewis Alcott, University of Bristol; Fereidoun Rezanezhad, University of Waterloo; Nancy Goucher, University of Waterloo; Philippe Van Cappellen, University of Waterloo; and Stephanie SlowinskiUniversity […]

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The Same White Nationalism that Genocided the American Indians is at Work in Eradicating Palestinians

The Same White Nationalism that Genocided the American Indians is at Work in Eradicating Palestinians

Sarajevo (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In his seminal work “Animal Farm,” George Orwell astutely observed, “All animals are equal, but some animals are […]

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Sniping, Shredding, Incinerating:  Israel's War on Children in Gaza

Sniping, Shredding, Incinerating: Israel’s War on Children in Gaza

By Adham Abu Selmiya ( Middle East Monitor ) – “I’ve seen more incinerated children than I’ve ever seen in my entire life combined. I’ve […]

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Project 2025: The Christian Nationalist Vision to be Imposed on America

By Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Roman poet Juvenal coined the phrase “bread and circuses” nearly 2,000 years ago for […]

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Israel's Netanyahu Insulted -- and endangered -- US Protesters against his Gaza Atrocities, Lying that they're on Iran's Payroll

Israel’s Netanyahu Insulted — and endangered — US Protesters against his Gaza Atrocities, Lying that they’re on Iran’s Payroll

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Netanyahu’s speech before a half full of the House of Representatives was a disgrace.  It was not […]

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The Double Crisis of U.S. Foreign Policy

By John Feffer | Originally published in Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Approaching the consequential elections of 2024, the United […]

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