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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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The dangerous Alliance of religious Nationalism in Israel and America to Silence Critics of Apartheid

The dangerous Alliance of religious Nationalism in Israel and America to Silence Critics of Apartheid

Morgan Artyukhina ( Waging Nonviolence ) – A new brand of far-right religious nationalism in Israel is seeking to refine the country’s ethnocentric basis, increasing […]

Waging Nonviolence

Displaced and Refugees
Marrakech Artisans – who have helped rebuild the Moroccan City before – are among those hit hard in the Earthquake’s Devastation

Marrakech Artisans – who have helped rebuild the Moroccan City before – are among those hit hard in the Earthquake’s Devastation

By Abbey Stockstill, Southern Methodist University | – A powerful earthquake that hit close to the medieval city of Marrakech in Morocco on Sept. 8, […]

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Batteries
How Nevada just became the Saudi Arabia of Lithium, as World's Largest Deposit is discovered at Thacker Pass

How Nevada just became the Saudi Arabia of Lithium, as World’s Largest Deposit is discovered at Thacker Pass

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the scientific journal Science Advances, Thomas R. Benton and his colleagues published a paper last month showing that a […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel and its Occupation exact a High Price from Palestinians

Israel and its Occupation exact a High Price from Palestinians

( Jordan Times ) – Last week, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People called for Israel’s “immediate […]

Michael Jansen

Climate Crisis
Our Global Maui Moment: Climate Crisis and a World Afire

Our Global Maui Moment: Climate Crisis and a World Afire

( Tomdispatch.com ) – From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been the story not just of the rise of great powers […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Big Oil and Big Coal countries Block meaningful G20 Climate Pledge, in wake of World's Hottest Summer on Record

Big Oil and Big Coal countries Block meaningful G20 Climate Pledge, in wake of World’s Hottest Summer on Record

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Shivam Patel at Reuters reports that the G20 summit in New Delhi made no specific, agreed-upon statement on climate and […]

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Saudi Arabia executes more than 100 People this Year

Saudi Arabia executes more than 100 People this Year

( Middle East Monitor) – The Saudi authorities have executed more than 100 people this year, hitting a new milestone that Amnesty International considers reveals […]

Middle East Monitor

China
A Perfect Storm: Does China’s EV Dominance Threaten European Auto Makers on their Home Turf?

A Perfect Storm: Does China’s EV Dominance Threaten European Auto Makers on their Home Turf?

By Sören Amelang | – On the way from China to Europe: BYD electric car. Image by BYD ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Europe’s […]

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Climate Crisis
Latino Futurism and Puerto Rico's Solar Insurrection: Panels, Batteries and going Off-Grid after Hurricane Maria

Latino Futurism and Puerto Rico’s Solar Insurrection: Panels, Batteries and going Off-Grid after Hurricane Maria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis thinks that the future of Puerto Rico is solar panels plus battery […]

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