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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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Israel/ Palestine
Cambridge-Trained Physician Back from Gaza: "There's a very dark side to the Israeli State"

Cambridge-Trained Physician Back from Gaza: “There’s a very dark side to the Israeli State”

Moosa Qureshi, The Watermelon Reports. (Moosa Qureshi is a British National Health Service Haematology Consultant, Award-winning Legal Campaigner, PhD Cancer Science, LLB Hons, Microsoft Certified […]

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International Court of Justice
Hypocrisy: Washington supports the Int'l Criminal Court only when it suits US Interests

Hypocrisy: Washington supports the Int’l Criminal Court only when it suits US Interests

By Andrea Furger, The University of Melbourne | – (The Conversation) – This week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) applied for arrest […]

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Int'l Court of Justice Orders Israel to Halt Rafah invasion, as Palestinians face Large Scale Dehydration

Int’l Court of Justice Orders Israel to Halt Rafah invasion, as Palestinians face Large Scale Dehydration

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Court of Justice ruled Friday that Israel must immediately cease its ongoing invasion of Rafah governorate in southern […]

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European Union
How Israel's Shift to the Ultra-Far Right is Leading European Nations to Recognize Palestine

How Israel’s Shift to the Ultra-Far Right is Leading European Nations to Recognize Palestine

by Muhammed Enes Calli ( The Middle East Monitor ) – The recent move by some European nations to recognise the state of Palestine will […]

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Colonialism
Yuval Noah Harari's odyssey into a parallel Zionist universe

Yuval Noah Harari’s odyssey into a parallel Zionist universe

The New Arab ) – In the vast expanse of the intellectual cosmos, there exists a luminary whose brilliance outshines even the brightest stars. Professor […]

Yoav Litvin

Anti-Zionism
Most Bigoted, Genocidal Representative in Congress smears Juan Cole as a Racist

Most Bigoted, Genocidal Representative in Congress smears Juan Cole as a Racist

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The House Committee on Education and the Workplace, headed by the increasingly unhinged Rep. Virginia Palmieri Foxx (R-NC), held another […]

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Iran
Men in Power: Iran's Raisi and the Death of a Enabler

Men in Power: Iran’s Raisi and the Death of a Enabler

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment) – In the words of the great poet Hafez, “Be happy that the tyrant did not make his way […]

Fariba Amini

Pentagon
The Pentagon’s .00035% Problem

The Pentagon’s .00035% Problem

( Tomdispatch.com ) – There are constants in this world — occurrences you can count on. Sunrises and sunsets. The tides. That, day by day, […]

Nick Turse

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Recognizing Palestine: "In Darkest Episode of 21st Century ... Spaniards were on the Right Side of History."

Recognizing Palestine: “In Darkest Episode of 21st Century … Spaniards were on the Right Side of History.”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The announcement Wednesday that Spain, Ireland and Norway will recognize the State of Palestine diplomatically on May 28 is not […]

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