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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

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The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

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Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to protest the intensification of Israel’s assaults on the education sector in the […]

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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East

Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After thirty years of agitation, incitement, lies and provocation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally succeeded in […]

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Iran
Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

By Sahar Maranlou, Royal Holloway University of London (The Conversation) – Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of […]

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Israel/ Palestine
For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

by Motasem A Dalloul ( Middle East Monitor ) – After more than 100 days of complete Israeli ban on the entry of aid and […]

Middle East Monitor

China
The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

By Simon Mabon, Lancaster University (The Conversation) – When US B-2 bombers hit Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, Donald Trump declared the […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
No Kings!  This is What Democracy Looks Like

No Kings! This is What Democracy Looks Like

( Tomdispatch.com ) – How strange. I’ve been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

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 […]

Dan Steinbock

Bill of Rights
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

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Cynthia Teniente-Matson President San José State University sjsupres@sjsu.edu . . .   Dear President Teniente-Matson […]

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