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Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
Donald Trump

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more […]

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

06/22/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

06/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Israel/ Palestine
Confronting Energy Poverty among Palestinians in Israeli-Besieged Gaza

Confronting Energy Poverty among Palestinians in Israeli-Besieged Gaza

by Asmaa Abu Mezied  ( Al-Shabaka ) – Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from a worsening energy crisis due to the Israeli regime’s ongoing siege. As […]

Al-Shabaka

Elections
The 3.6 mn. Syrian Refugees in Turkiye now a Political Football between the Two Leading Candidates

The 3.6 mn. Syrian Refugees in Turkiye now a Political Football between the Two Leading Candidates

Gilbert Achkar ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Turkish election scene is truly disgusting, a scene in which the Syrian refugees have become a […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
The Market Won't Save Us:  How to Rapidly Reduce Deadly Fossil Fuel Use

The Market Won’t Save Us: How to Rapidly Reduce Deadly Fossil Fuel Use

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The burning of fossil fuels—oil, coal, natural gas—is responsible for nearly 90 percent of global carbon emissions. Despite […]

John Feffer

Featured
The Limits of Saudi Normalization with Israel

The Limits of Saudi Normalization with Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration is devoting what energy the State Department has aside from the effort to defend Ukraine to achieving […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
75 Years Later, Israel Blocking Palestinian Refugees’ Return

75 Years Later, Israel Blocking Palestinian Refugees’ Return

Omar Shakir Israel and Palestine Director, Middle East and North Africa Division   @OmarSShakir From the morgues of Cairo to the cells of Guantanamo, I’ve […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
More than two dozen Cities and States are suing Big Oil over Climate Change – they just got a Boost from the US Supreme Court

More than two dozen Cities and States are suing Big Oil over Climate Change – they just got a Boost from the US Supreme Court

By Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University | – Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous […]

The Conversation

Far Right
White Nationalists, Hindu Supremacists: the Pathologies of the World’s Two Largest Democracies

White Nationalists, Hindu Supremacists: the Pathologies of the World’s Two Largest Democracies

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists […]

Tomdispatch

China
China's Solar Power Installations Skyrocket by 36.6%, may install 100 Gigs of New Solar this Year

China’s Solar Power Installations Skyrocket by 36.6%, may install 100 Gigs of New Solar this Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the first four months of 2023, China’s solar power installations increased by an incredible 36.6 percent year over year, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Nakba:  Remembering Israel's Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura

Nakba: Remembering Israel’s Massacre of Palestinians at Tantura

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks     ( Middle East Monitor ) – On this day in May 1948, up to 200 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli […]

Middle East Monitor

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