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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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al-Qaeda
Cole @ C-Span:  Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda (video lecture)

Cole @ C-Span: Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda (video lecture)

(By Juan Cole) My class lecture, “Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda,” was filmed by C-Span in February and has been shown on television; it […]

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Climate Change
Renewable Energy Boom coming to the Middle East

Renewable Energy Boom coming to the Middle East

Middle East North Africa Area To See Renewable Energy Boom (via Clean Technica) The trade association behind the DESERTEC Concept of the same name has […]

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Barack Obama
President Obama zings Zach Galifianakis on "Between Two Ferns"

President Obama zings Zach Galifianakis on “Between Two Ferns”

President Obama on funnyordie.com plugging the Affordable Health Care Act: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama —– Related […]

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Climate Change
 By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis

By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis

(By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch) As the San Francisco bureaucrats on the dais murmured about why they weren’t getting anywhere near what we in the […]

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Domestic Surveillance
When it is Feinstein being Spied on, Suddenly she Squawks

When it is Feinstein being Spied on, Suddenly she Squawks

(By Juan Cole) Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) took to the senate floor on Tuesday to denounce the Central Intelligence Agency for spying on her staff […]

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Economy
Libya's Parliament dumps PM Zeidan, Elects al-Thinni, over Oil Tanker Crisis

Libya’s Parliament dumps PM Zeidan, Elects al-Thinni, over Oil Tanker Crisis

(By Juan Cole) In a series of dramatic political moves, the Libyan General National Congress on Tuesday carried out a vote of no confidence in […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
“Normalizing” Suicide Bombing:  What the Assassination of Abu Khaled al-Soury Says about Jihadism Today

“Normalizing” Suicide Bombing: What the Assassination of Abu Khaled al-Soury Says about Jihadism Today

(Jeffrey William Lewis) On February 23 the Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia concluded peacefully. A terrorist attack by Chechen Black Widow suicide bombers—much feared and […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Edward Snowden:  The US is Undermining its own Cybersecurity

Edward Snowden: The US is Undermining its own Cybersecurity

SXSW: Snowden Touts Encryption, Swipes at NSA (via slashdot) In a Google Hangout with an auditorium full of South by Southwest attendees, government whistleblower (and […]

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Drones
Obama's Rules:  US Drones in Yemen - 'Psychological Torture' from Above

Obama’s Rules: US Drones in Yemen – ‘Psychological Torture’ from Above

(By Sarah Lazare) As the United States steps up covert drone strikes on Yemen, with three suspected U.S. drone attacks killing at least four people in Yemen […]

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