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Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right
Donald Trump

Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right

Juan Cole

Trump’s Gaza plans have no concrete reality, consisting of a mere Potemkin Village: the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are sleeping rough

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

02/20/2026 By Nicolas J. S. Davies

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

02/20/2026 By Frida Berrigan

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Serious Court Challenges May Reverse the Trump EPA’s Revocation of 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding

Serious Court Challenges May Reverse the Trump EPA’s Revocation of 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding

The court found that various greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, were “pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act.

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Donald Trump
Too Late, Mr. Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America

Too Late, Mr. Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America

White people are not being “replaced” by invading non-whites, who have been here all along–because the U.S. incorporated them as we expanded

Mitchell Zimmerman

Israel/ Palestine
The Israeli State of Exception and the Assault on International Humanitarian Law

The Israeli State of Exception and the Assault on International Humanitarian Law

With the genocide in Gaza, Israeli rhetoric fully reflects a state of exception where the law is not just ignored, but structurally suspended.

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
MAGA Outgrows Isolationism: And Yet America First Means America Alone

MAGA Outgrows Isolationism: And Yet America First Means America Alone

Donald Trump considers international law nothing more than a trifling impediment by which the weak try to drag down the strong.

John Feffer

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The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire

The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire

People were gunned down in a systematic way during these protests on a scale unseen since the 1980s

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran

The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran

Expanding settlements, making plans to cut the Palestinians into separated areas, such as separating the north of the West Bank from the south

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

How China will Run Rings around Trump’s US on Lucrative Green Energy in 2026

China exported over $200 billion in clean energy technologies to other countries in 2025, increasing their adoption around the world

Yale Climate Connections

Arab Spring
On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries

On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries

Many people optimistically assume that popular revolutions against dictators will automatically establish democratic governments

Farhang Jahanpour

Omar Khayyam
“Gently, Brother!”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

“Gently, Brother!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

That clay, and the things made of clay , bear traces of past people who died and became clay is a common theme in classical Persian poetry

Juan Cole

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