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Several Countries to Boycott Eurovision Singing Contest over Israeli Participation
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Several Countries to Boycott Eurovision Singing Contest over Israeli Participation

Juan Cole

“RTÉ remains deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza during the conflict and the continued denial of access

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Labeling dissent as Terrorism: Trump’s NSPM-7 raises Constitutional Alarms

Labeling dissent as Terrorism: Trump’s NSPM-7 raises Constitutional Alarms

12/07/2025 By The Conversation

A Path Away from Fossil Fuels already Exists, COP30 or No

A Path Away from Fossil Fuels already Exists, COP30 or No

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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30

Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30

Indigenous and tribal fishing communities on Brazil’s Amazon coast, their survival and livelihoods depends on fishing

H. Patricia Hynes

Omar Khayyam
From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

it was used by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley for a Grateful Dead poster in 1966, and for the cover of the group’s second live album in 1971

Juan Cole

Agriculture
Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

“The folks that are taking the punches are the ones that can’t really afford to take the punches,” said Tuthill, president of Royal Food Import

Michigan Advance

Egypt
How Global Power Shifts are Playing out in the Red Sea Region of the Mideast

How Global Power Shifts are Playing out in the Red Sea Region of the Mideast

The Red Sea borders some of the world’s most volatile regions: the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the the Indo-Pacific area

The Conversation

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

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

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

Norman Solomon

Academic Freedom
MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

Dr. Abedini was detained on November 22 by ICE before boarding a flight to attend the MESA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

Middle East Studies Association

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

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

These days Donald Trump’s Washington abounds with monuments to overblown imperial grandeur and plans for more

Alfred W. McCoy

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The Ecocide of Gaza

The Ecocide of Gaza

Well before October 7, 2023, the Gaza Strip had progressively been isolated from the West Bank and the outside world overall

Dan Steinbock

Iran
“All the Saints and Sages:”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

How long will sages debate if this world is eternal or created? / Once I have left it, why should I care, either way?

Juan Cole

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