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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives
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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

H. Scott Prosterman

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

01/13/2026 By Human Rights Watch

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

01/13/2026 By The Conversation

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Colonialism
Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

They discuss Cole’s career, ranging from his upbringing in a military family to becoming a leading public intellectual during the Iraq War

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

Russian and American leaders will face no barriers to the expansion of those thermonuclear arsenals

Michael T. Klare

Climate Crisis
Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

the Arctic’s climate is changing more rapidly than anywhere on Earth, further increasing the already substantial economic and personal risk

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Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Palestinians face “criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Power Play President

The Power Play President

For Trump, peace negotiations and military operations are simply different means to the same end: total control

John Feffer

Iran
Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

The unrest poses the most serious challenge to Iran’s political establishment since 2022

The Conversation

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus

An Israeli police statement blamed the demonstrators, saying that they had disturbed the peace, closed off streets, damaged buses

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical

With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical

Maduro’s arrest revives a familiar US fantasy: that removing a strongman brings stability. From Iraq to Afghanistan, history suggests otherwise

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Donald Trump
Trump’s War on Women: Bodies, Roles, and Futures at Risk

Trump’s War on Women: Bodies, Roles, and Futures at Risk

Trump has made his intention to rid the government of women crystal clear — with some window-dressing exceptions

Karen J. Greenberg

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