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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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Far-right rises in European Parliament elections, but is it a 'Euroquake'?

Far-right rises in European Parliament elections, but is it a ‘Euroquake’?

By Remy Davison, Monash University, via The Conversation Some 400 million eligible voters, 751 seats, 28 countries: a portrait of true democracy at work – […]

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S. Carolina Bible College head Slaveholder Arrested. Yes, You Read That Correctly

S. Carolina Bible College head Slaveholder Arrested. Yes, You Read That Correctly

… and your jaw is going to hit the floor when you read what he does for a living: The president of a South Carolina Bible college was charged last week with essentially treating foreign students as slaves by forcing them to perform work for little…

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Shale Oil Hype Fail: California Bonanza Evaporates

Shale Oil Hype Fail: California Bonanza Evaporates

California's Shale Fail: The Case of 13 Billion Barrels of Missing Oil By Richard Heinberg In 2011, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US […]

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On Memorial Day, Let's do right by our Veterans

On Memorial Day, Let’s do right by our Veterans

(By Juan Cole) Memorial Day should honor not only those military personnel who gave their lives for America but really all those who have suffered […]

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Obama's Just Right Foreign Policy

Obama’s Just Right Foreign Policy

By Daniel Wagner via IPD A plethora of pundits, lawmakers and think tanks continue to criticize the Obama administration for presiding over what appear to […]

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The Pope in Palestine:  O Little Town of Bethehem caught in Apartheid Wall

The Pope in Palestine: O Little Town of Bethehem caught in Apartheid Wall

Papal pilgrimage heads to Bethlehem (via AFP) Pope Francis arrives in Bethlehem Sunday to begin the most sensitive part of his three-day Middle East tour […]

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Climate Change
Nat'l Gas actually worse than Coal for Climate Change because, Methane: Cornell Scientist

Nat’l Gas actually worse than Coal for Climate Change because, Methane: Cornell Scientist

By Bobby Magill Follow @bobbymagill A Cornell University scientist’s claims that oil and gas development is so harmful to the climate that methane emissions and oil and gas production in general need to be cut back immediately to avoid a “global catastrophe…

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Crime
30 Murders by Firearm in England 2012 (equiv. 164), vs. 8,855 in US

30 Murders by Firearm in England 2012 (equiv. 164), vs. 8,855 in US

By Juan Cole The mentally imbalanced individual who hunted down UC Santa Barbara students and knifed three and shot 6 of them to death, wounding […]

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The Real Veterans Scandal: 258,000 Have No Healthcare Thanks to GOP Governors

By S Lee Caudle The Real Veterans Scandal: 258,000 Have No Healthcare Thanks to GOP Governors (via Atlas Left) While the GOP/Tea Party fiddles, blaming […]

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