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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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Protesting to Columbia University over the Unlawful Detention of Mahmoud Khalil

Protesting to Columbia University over the Unlawful Detention of Mahmoud Khalil

CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM March 11, 2025Katrina Armstrong, PresidentColumbia UniversityDaniel Abebe, DeanColumbia School of Law Dear President Armstrong and Dean Abebe: We are writing […]

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Colonialism
Back to the Bad old Days of Empire and Self-Destructive Tariffs:  Trump as McKinley Redux

Back to the Bad old Days of Empire and Self-Destructive Tariffs: Trump as McKinley Redux

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Among tariffs, territorial ambitions and other threats to America’s well-being by Pres. Trump, one of the more severethreats may be his […]

Hugh J. Curran

Donald Trump
Trump’s Machinery of Mass Deportation

Trump’s Machinery of Mass Deportation

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our […]

Tomdispatch

Kurds
Syria integration deal with Kurds brings Relief after Days of bitter Violence wracks war-torn Country

Syria integration deal with Kurds brings Relief after Days of bitter Violence wracks war-torn Country

By Rob Geist Pinfold, King’s College London (The Conversation) – The new Syrian government has signed a deal with to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
We are All Mahmoud Khalil

We are All Mahmoud Khalil

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The arrest of legal permanent U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil, 29, by Department of Homeland Security agents for thought crimes is […]

Juan Cole

Alawites
Syria: End Coastal Killing Spree, Protect Civilians

Syria: End Coastal Killing Spree, Protect Civilians

Summary Executions, Indiscriminate Shootings, Outrages on Personal Dignity. ( Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Summary executions and other atrocities have taken place in Syria’s […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Health-Care Workers in Gaza should not be a Target: Their Detention and Death affect the Whole Population

Health-Care Workers in Gaza should not be a Target: Their Detention and Death affect the Whole Population

By Tania King, The University of Melbourne; Fiona Stanley, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Guy Gillor, The University of Melbourne; Rob Moodie, The University of […]

The Conversation

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Israel Cuts Electricity for Water to Gaza, as Smotrich plans Expulsion of 5,000 Palestinian Civilians a Day for One Year

Israel Cuts Electricity for Water to Gaza, as Smotrich plans Expulsion of 5,000 Palestinian Civilians a Day for One Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghribi at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen ordered late Sunday that […]

Juan Cole

Food Insecurity
My Jewish Faith and Int’l Law Demand an Immediate Resumption of Aid in Gaza

My Jewish Faith and Int’l Law Demand an Immediate Resumption of Aid in Gaza

By Mara Kronenfeld | – ( Otherwords.org) – Israel’s assault on Gaza, with backing from the United States, has created one of the worst humanitarian […]

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Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

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Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

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Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing

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