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Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
Donald Trump

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more […]

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

06/22/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

06/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Water Crisis and untreated Sewage could kill more Gaza Palestinians than Bombs: Threat of Infant Mortality

Water Crisis and untreated Sewage could kill more Gaza Palestinians than Bombs: Threat of Infant Mortality

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Arabi al-Jadid reports, “The streets of the Gaza Strip are witnessing a catastrophic environmental crisis due to the mixing of […]

Juan Cole

Counter-Terrorism
Bombing Muslims for Peace: Isn't It Time to Put Our Toy Soldiers Away (Along with Our Illusions)?

Bombing Muslims for Peace: Isn’t It Time to Put Our Toy Soldiers Away (Along with Our Illusions)?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke […]

William J. Astore

Displaced and Refugees
Gaza: Israeli Siege, Palestinian Starvation, and the pre-War Policies that made them Vulnerable

Gaza: Israeli Siege, Palestinian Starvation, and the pre-War Policies that made them Vulnerable

By Yara M. Asi, University of Central Florida | – The stories of hunger emerging from war-ravaged Gaza are stark: People resorting to grinding barely […]

The Conversation

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Are there any innocent civilians among Palestinians in Gaza?

Are there any innocent civilians among Palestinians in Gaza?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog said last October that “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Continuation of Zionist Settler Colonialism

The Continuation of Zionist Settler Colonialism

by Jamal Nabulsi  (Al-Shabaka.org ) – The Israeli regime is currently committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, not only indiscriminately bombing Palestinians but actively targeting critical […]

Al-Shabaka

Israel/ Palestine
Amid War, Palestinian-Israeli Peace Work Continues

Amid War, Palestinian-Israeli Peace Work Continues

By Louis Kriesberg | February 14, 2024 ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) The terrible war initiated in October 2023 between Israel and Hamas was […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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South Africa lodges Urgent Complaint with Int'l Court of Justice over Israel's Plan to Assault Rafah

South Africa lodges Urgent Complaint with Int’l Court of Justice over Israel’s Plan to Assault Rafah

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The South African government lodged an urgent complaint on Monday at the International Court of Justice against the plan announced […]

Juan Cole

Armenia
Jerusalem: Jewish Settler Movement makes bid for Large Expanse of Christian Armenian Quarter

Jerusalem: Jewish Settler Movement makes bid for Large Expanse of Christian Armenian Quarter

By Svante Lundgren, Lund University | – The Armenian quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City is facing its biggest crisis in a long time. A Jewish […]

The Conversation

Constitution
Throwing out the Constitution: Donald Trump vs. the 14th Amendment

Throwing out the Constitution: Donald Trump vs. the 14th Amendment

By Clarence Lusane ( Tomdispatch.com) – When the Civil War ended in 1865, the 76-year-old Constitution needed an upgrading and those leading the country did […]

Tomdispatch

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Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

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Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing

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