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Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist
Democratic Socialists of America

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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Islam-hatred
How Myanmar’s government is making  Buddhist violence toward Muslims worse

How Myanmar’s government is making Buddhist violence toward Muslims worse

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar — “For three days,” Khine recalls, “our town was hell.” As the 32-year-old waitress tells it, the nightmare began with masked men waving Buddhist banners. Then came vigilantes, with torches and blades, butchering families…

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Books
Washington Militarizes Foreign Policy, but cuts Fulbright Cultural Exchange

Washington Militarizes Foreign Policy, but cuts Fulbright Cultural Exchange

(By Ann Jones via Tomdispatch.com) Ignorance can be dangerous, as shown in a recent poll asking Americans what to do about the Ukraine crisis.  It […]

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Top 10 Reasons GOP Benghazi Witch Hunt is just a Campaign Fundraising Ploy

Top 10 Reasons GOP Benghazi Witch Hunt is just a Campaign Fundraising Ploy

(By Juan Cole) Since Obamacare is increasingly a wildly popular success, the GOP is flailing around looking for an issue, any issue to help fundraising […]

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Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

Former head of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam says Tehran may not even want nuke, but Netanyahu working public into lather for political gain

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Africa
Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls (via AFP) A new Boko Haram massacre has killed hundreds in Nigeria’s northeast, a […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts

Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts

By Brian Kahn Follow @blkahn The newly released National Climate Assessment spans 30 chapters with thousands of references on how climate change is impacting the U.S. The report took more than 300 scientists and 4 years to prepare, including addressing…

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American Jews
Muslim-haters Pam Geller & J. Farah Attack Spielberg, Liberal Jews as Appeasers

Muslim-haters Pam Geller & J. Farah Attack Spielberg, Liberal Jews as Appeasers

This liberal Jew is disgusted by the constant comparisons of Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, of 2014 America to pre-Nazi Germany, and now, of liberal Jews to Nazi appeasers. Muslim-basher Pam Geller is outraged that Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation…

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Domestic Surveillance
Emails suggest Google and the NSA are closer than we knew

Emails suggest Google and the NSA are closer than we knew

reputation has been shaken by evidence to suggest its relationship with the US National Security Agency (NSA) is cosier than anyone thought. If emails obtained by Al Jazeera are to be believed, relations between Google chairman Eric Schmidt and NSA…

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Arab Spring
Is Fall of Homs a turning point in Regime's Quest to Retake Syria?

Is Fall of Homs a turning point in Regime’s Quest to Retake Syria?

(By Juan Cole) The Governor of Homs Province, Talal al-Barazi said Wednesday that 80 percent of the rebel fighters in that city have now been […]

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