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Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist
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Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist

Norman Solomon

Trump and his MAGA followers are hardly going to forsake their standard mix of bigotry, anti-immigrant mania and other political toxins

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MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

11/26/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

Ozymandias on the Potomac:  Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

Ozymandias on the Potomac: Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

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Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

When a chartered flight carrying more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg last week, confusion filled South African airwaves

Middle East Monitor

Arms Sales
The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

U.S. interceptors have failed almost half their tests, and the secretary of defense responds by bellowing: “That’s what $50 billion buys us?”

Tomdispatch

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Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Kurdish Rojava and Beyond

Murray Bookchin was one of the most significant thinkers – and activists – in the 20th century

Peter G. Prontzos

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: As Cold and Rain Assault Homeless, Israel Blocks Entry of Tents

Gaza: As Cold and Rain Assault Homeless, Israel Blocks Entry of Tents

the health situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic as the population drinks contaminated water with high salinity

International Middle East Media Center

Green Energy
Pacific Nations aim to go 100% Renewables, saving 25% of GDP

Pacific Nations aim to go 100% Renewables, saving 25% of GDP

In Papua New Guinea’s highlands, solar kits bring electric light to homes for the first time

The Conversation

BDS
Imposing Sanctions on Israel with Love

Imposing Sanctions on Israel with Love

As an Israeli Jew in voluntary political exile since 1983 facing horrors being done in my name and without my consent

Waging Nonviolence

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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child

Dan Steinbock

Israel/ Palestine
Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

The US sanctions against Francesca Albanese are testament to her courage speaking up for the Palestinians.

Richard Drake

China
How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

In October, China unveiled updated climate targets for 2035, a 7-10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

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