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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

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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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Iraqi Mosul's Child Soldiers: ISIS Trickily recruits 10-year-olds

Iraqi Mosul’s Child Soldiers: ISIS Trickily recruits 10-year-olds

niqash | Special Correspondent | Mosul | Much to the horror of the city’s adults, children and teens in masks, carrying guns, are becoming an […]

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Hizbullah
Sunni Radicals of ISIS seek showdown with Lebanon's Hizbullah

Sunni Radicals of ISIS seek showdown with Lebanon’s Hizbullah

By Radwan Mortada The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has decided to instigate a full-scale conflagration in Lebanon. All indications show that the […]

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Barack Obama
Clinton to Cheney:  Blaming Obama for not cleaning up your mess… Unseemly

Clinton to Cheney: Blaming Obama for not cleaning up your mess… Unseemly

During recent interview with David Gregory, Pres. Bill Clinton laughed off Dick Cheney’s suggestion that President Obama is to blame for the strife in Iraq, […]

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Barack Obama
Top 5 Reasons US Aid to "Moderate" Syrian Fighters is Quixotic

Top 5 Reasons US Aid to “Moderate” Syrian Fighters is Quixotic

The Obama administration’s fruitless search for effective Sunni “moderate” fighters in Syria continues, with the announcement of a $500 million grant to them for training […]

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Militarization
Unconstitutional:  Top 4 Ways the US Gov't has Shredded the 4th Amendment

Unconstitutional: Top 4 Ways the US Gov’t has Shredded the 4th Amendment

By Peter Van Buren Here’s a bit of history from another America: the Bill of Rights was designed to protect the people from their government. […]

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Dissent
Iraqi Idol: Tikrit Woman who Confronted ISIS Becomes Internet Sensation

Iraqi Idol: Tikrit Woman who Confronted ISIS Becomes Internet Sensation

By Osama Hassan | Tikrit Sad story: Tikrit woman Umiyia Jibara was killed by an ISIS sniper. In a country currently full of sad tales, […]

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Iraq
Dear Neocons:  Why we're not Sending Combat Troops to Iraq no matter how much you Pout

Dear Neocons: Why we’re not Sending Combat Troops to Iraq no matter how much you Pout

By Scott Corey There are only three things wrong with the idea of sending combat troops to Iraq at this time, as a range of […]

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Domestic drones
FAA insists on Regulating Delivery Drones

FAA insists on Regulating Delivery Drones

Via Gas2 The FAA doesn’t think much of Jeff Bezos’ idea to deliver packages to Amazon.com customers using drones. Yesterday the agency issued a proposed […]

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 Fox News A ‘Fanatical Terrorist Propagandist Organization’ According To Russell Brand (VIDEO)

Fox News A ‘Fanatical Terrorist Propagandist Organization’ According To Russell Brand (VIDEO)

By Samuel Warde According to Russell Brand, “fanatical” Fox News is “more dangerous than Isis.” His comments were made in response to a particularly disturbing […]

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