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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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Dismissal of "Scapegoat" Libyan Foreign Minister for Meeting with Israel shows Limits of US "Abraham Accords"

Dismissal of “Scapegoat” Libyan Foreign Minister for Meeting with Israel shows Limits of US “Abraham Accords”

The United States pressured Libya to meet with Israel in order to prepare the way for recognizing it and joining the Abraham Accords. After the […]

Gilbert Achcar

art and photography
Iran’s Street Art shows Defiance, Resistance and Resilience

Iran’s Street Art shows Defiance, Resistance and Resilience

By Pouya Afshar, UMass Lowell | – (The Conversation) – A recent rise in activism in Iran has added a new chapter to the country’s […]

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Africa
African and Maghrebi "Migrants" versus Ukrainian "Refugees": Europe's Racial Tunnel Vision Creates discriminatory, and deadly, Policies

African and Maghrebi “Migrants” versus Ukrainian “Refugees”: Europe’s Racial Tunnel Vision Creates discriminatory, and deadly, Policies

Sousse, Tunisia (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Mediterranean Sea route is still the most dangerous immigration route in the world. Since 2014, the […]

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Donald Trump
Activists File legal Challenges in Michigan, Florida, to Disqualifiy Trump as Seditionist under 14th Amendment

Activists File legal Challenges in Michigan, Florida, to Disqualifiy Trump as Seditionist under 14th Amendment

By: Steve Neavling –   ( Florida Phoenix) – A Highland Park resident filing a legal challenge Monday aimed at disqualifying Donald Trump from the […]

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Antisemitism
How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi Persecution – A New View of History

How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi Persecution – A New View of History

By Wolf Grune, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old Jewish woman, performed forced labor […]

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Pentagon
Living on a War Planet . . . And Managing not to Notice

Living on a War Planet . . . And Managing not to Notice

By David Bromwich ( Tomdispatch.com ) – A new war, a new alibi. When we think about our latest war — the one that began […]

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Featured
Putin's Assassination of Prigozhin Decapitates Wagner's Empire in Libya, Sudan, Syria and E. Europe, and Puts Oligarchs on Notice

Putin’s Assassination of Prigozhin Decapitates Wagner’s Empire in Libya, Sudan, Syria and E. Europe, and Puts Oligarchs on Notice

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Russia confirmed Tuesday that Yevgeny Prigozhin, ex-convict oligarch and leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenaries, died in a plane […]

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Children
Palestinian West Bank: Spike in Israeli Killings of Palestinian Children

Palestinian West Bank: Spike in Israeli Killings of Palestinian Children

The Israeli military and border police forces are killing Palestinian children with virtually no recourse for accountability. Israeli forces should end the routine unlawful use […]

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Children
Climate Change Threatens the Rights of Children: The UN Mandates States to Protect Them

Climate Change Threatens the Rights of Children: The UN Mandates States to Protect Them

By Noam Peleg, UNSW Sydney | – (The Conversation) – Climate change is not just an environmental crisis, it’s a human rights crisis. And the […]

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