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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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Israel/ Palestine
The Kushner "Deal of the Century": If Only America's Profound Betrayal of the Palestinian People Came as a Shock

The Kushner “Deal of the Century”: If Only America’s Profound Betrayal of the Palestinian People Came as a Shock

Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment) – President Trump unveiled his administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan at the White House on January 28, 2020, telling […]

Ali Abootalebi

Bernie Sanders
Sanders' Medicare for All: Why the Nevada Culinary Workers revolted against their Union Bosses

Sanders’ Medicare for All: Why the Nevada Culinary Workers revolted against their Union Bosses

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – In the days leading up to the Nevada Democratic caucus media frequently referred to the “powerful” 60,000 […]

John Buell

Congress
The Age of Trump and Pseudo America: Phonying Up our Key Institutions

The Age of Trump and Pseudo America: Phonying Up our Key Institutions

( Tomdispatch.com) – The impeachment of the president of the United States! Surely such a mega-historic event would reverberate for weeks or months, leaving in […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Bernie Sanders
Why the Russian Petro-state is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency:  The Green New Deal

Why the Russian Petro-state is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: The Green New Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused by Western intelligence agencies of seeking to interfere in the 2020 US elections […]

Juan Cole

Inscriptions
The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

Ahmad Bin Ghanim al-Ida’ published a photograph of an inscription he found south of al-Ula (near ancient Hijr) in Saudi Arabia. It was picked up […]

Juan Cole

Health Care
The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

( Otherwords) – In our corporate-run health system, consumer “choices” are shaped entirely by profit-seeking monopolists. By Jim Hightower | February 19, 2020 Lyndon Johnson […]

Jim Hightower

Afghanistan
Can the US-Taliban Truce Hold, Bringing Peace to Afghanistan after 40 Years of War?

Can the US-Taliban Truce Hold, Bringing Peace to Afghanistan after 40 Years of War?

By Elizabeth B. Hessami | – If a seven-day truce between the United States and the Taliban holds until Feb. 28, 2020, Afghanistan’s decades-long conflict […]

The Conversation

Bernie Sanders
Russia wants Trump reelected, and may be Making a Bet that Bernie Sanders can't Defeat Him (They're Wrong)

Russia wants Trump reelected, and may be Making a Bet that Bernie Sanders can’t Defeat Him (They’re Wrong)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julia Arciga at The Daily Beast writes that the Bernie Sanders campaign is convinced that notorious far right wing internet […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
With a Million Fresh Refugees and a 9-Year Civil War, Can Impoverished Syrians Survive?

With a Million Fresh Refugees and a 9-Year Civil War, Can Impoverished Syrians Survive?

( Middle East Monitor ) – A devastating civil war and international sanctions have destroyed Syria’s economy, leaving it with a GDP that is a […]

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