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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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An Election in Danger? The Fragile State of American Democracy

An Election in Danger? The Fragile State of American Democracy

By Julian Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Officials and election experts are now struggling in a big-time way. How, they wonder, […]

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Bigger than Dobbs: The War on Women is a War on Democracy

Bigger than Dobbs: The War on Women is a War on Democracy

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 2018, the US National Sexual Violence Resource Center published that 81% of women reported experiencing some […]

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US an “Open Field” for Manipulation by Israeli Propaganda: Mass Consciousness Activities

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has long relied on its much-vaunted hasbara — propaganda — to obscure the […]

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How Drones form part of Hezbollah’s deterrence Strategy against Israel

By Emilie El Khoury, Queen’s University, Ontario | – (The Conversation) – The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah recently released videos showing footage from one of […]

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Donald Trump
Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann […]

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Europe
Europe: The Onslaught of the Far Right

Europe: The Onslaught of the Far Right

Munich (Special to Informed Comment) – After the results of the elections to the European Union parliament were announced on the night of June 9, […]

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Shortening the Kill Chain: Silicon Valley aims to turn our World into an AI Wargame

Shortening the Kill Chain: Silicon Valley aims to turn our World into an AI Wargame

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Venture capital and military startup firms in Silicon Valley have begun aggressively selling a version of automated warfare that will deeply […]

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Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Save the Children said Monday that in addition to the some 14,000 children killed by the Israeli military according to […]

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No Accountability for Saudi Crimes as US Mulls New Defense Pact

No Accountability for Saudi Crimes as US Mulls New Defense Pact

By Nadia Hardman, Researcher, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division | – Joey Shea Researcher, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates   ( Human Rights Watch […]

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