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When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language
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When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made a campaign ad in quite passable colloquial Arabic for the some 180,000 Arab residents of […]

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How Zohran Mamdani is the Future: Affordability and the Dignity of Working People

How Zohran Mamdani is the Future: Affordability and the Dignity of Working People

11/03/2025 By Tomdispatch

Lasting Peace and Recovery in Gaza depends on local Participation, not just Ceasefires

Lasting Peace and Recovery in Gaza depends on local Participation, not just Ceasefires

11/03/2025 By The Conversation

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Bernie Sanders
Sanders calls out "reactionary racist Netanyahu" while Bloomberg charges Mideast with "age-old hatreds"

Sanders calls out “reactionary racist Netanyahu” while Bloomberg charges Mideast with “age-old hatreds”

At Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in South Carolina on CBS, Major Garrett, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, asked Bernie Sanders a leading question. The […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Heartened by Trump's backing, Israel has ramped up Plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

Heartened by Trump’s backing, Israel has ramped up Plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

By Nabil Al-Sahli | – In line with the demographic goals of the Zionist occupation state, the recently announced Trump deal includes a clause to […]

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Afghanistan
Gone Shopping!  America's Forever Wars Lumber on Because Americans don't Know About Them

Gone Shopping! America’s Forever Wars Lumber on Because Americans don’t Know About Them

( Tomdispatch.com) – There is no significant anti-war movement in America because there’s no war to protest. Let me explain. In February 2003, millions of […]

William J. Astore

Donald Trump
Trump’s so-called Mideast 'peace plan' dispossesses Palestinians

Trump’s so-called Mideast ‘peace plan’ dispossesses Palestinians

By Rachad Antonius | – Nothing is further from a peace effort than the plan that Israel and the Donald Trump administration have concocted for […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Trumps don't have a Right to the Taj Mahal

The Trumps don’t have a Right to the Taj Mahal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trumps visited the Taj Mahal during their trip to India. They didn’t have a right to do so. The […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
The Left is Back!

The Left is Back!

Akron, OH (Special to Informed Comment) – It’s official: the American left is back! Whether Bernie Sanders goes on to win the Democratic nomination, which […]

Walter L. Hixson

Iran
Trump's Ham-fisted Mideast "Plan" gave Iran an opening in the Next Palestinian Movement

Trump’s Ham-fisted Mideast “Plan” gave Iran an opening in the Next Palestinian Movement

By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor) – There are early signs that another uprising, or Intifada, will erupt in occupied Palestine. A […]

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
Homeland Secrets: Shootings by Homeland Security agents get little scrutiny

Homeland Secrets: Shootings by Homeland Security agents get little scrutiny

War Zone By Derek Hall, Mackenzie Shuman, Devan Sauer, Nicole Ludden and José-Ignacio Castañeda Perez | – Howard Center for Investigative Journalism | – ( […]

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Bernie Sanders
The Fall of France to the Nazis?  Chris Matthews and Corporate Democrats' Bernie Derangement Syndrome

The Fall of France to the Nazis? Chris Matthews and Corporate Democrats’ Bernie Derangement Syndrome

NB Matthews apologized for his remarks on 2/24/20 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was watching MSNBC Saturday afternoon during the voting at the Nevada […]

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