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Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?
Bahrain

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers – Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities

You Deserve Better, Iran

You Deserve Better, Iran

03/03/2026 By contributors

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

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Academic Freedom
Protesting U of N. Carolina Permitting Secret Recording in Classrooms

Protesting U of N. Carolina Permitting Secret Recording in Classrooms

we are attuned to the pressures to restrict and repress speech related to, for example, Israel, Palestine, US policy in the Middle East

Committee on Academic Freedom

Democratic Party
Biden delivered the Country to Trump, disbelieving Gaza Death Statistics; they were Underestimates

Biden delivered the Country to Trump, disbelieving Gaza Death Statistics; they were Underestimates

The article confirms the Ministry of Health estimate that about 56% of violent deaths were among children, women and elderly men

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

The Strait of Hormuz and Iran: Where Geography becomes a Weapon

What Iranian commanders have constructed in and around the Strait of Hormuz is not a conventional defense.

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Waiting for ICE

Waiting for ICE

In early February, the barbarians reached my gate. There could be no more comfort or denial here on this island where I live.

Tomdispatch

Children
17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis

17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis

The reason Gaza has this monstrous number of orphans is that the Israeli government killed their parents, including their mothers

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

Despite the damage it has sustained in recent conflicts with the US and Israel, Iran maintains formidable capabilities

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

The Los Angeles Public Library invited authors Janan Matari and Nora Lester Murad to an event on their books as part of Read Palestine Week

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Israel’s Enduring Colonial Project in Palestine

Israel’s Enduring Colonial Project in Palestine

Settler colonialism is a structure rather than an event, governed by a persistent logic of elimination aimed at securing land

Mehmet Rakipoglu

Israel/ Palestine
Judaism as an Occupied Territory

Judaism as an Occupied Territory

The most conspicuous example is the ongoing mass-carnage in, and of, Gaza, carried out by Israel, yet fully enabled by the US and Europe

Moshe Behar

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