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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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Trump Supports Turkey against Putin-backed Russo-Syrian Campaign to Finish off Rebels in Idlib

Trump Supports Turkey against Putin-backed Russo-Syrian Campaign to Finish off Rebels in Idlib

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump called Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday and appeared to back Turkey against Russia and Syria with regard to […]

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Yemen's looming environmental disaster as Saudi Arabia and US Pursue War on it

Yemen’s looming environmental disaster as Saudi Arabia and US Pursue War on it

Risk of a catastrophic oil spill, alarming water shortages and pollution, climate change, and other environmental disasters are adding to Yemen’s suffering

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Countering climate denialism requires taking on right-wing populism. Here's how

Countering climate denialism requires taking on right-wing populism. Here’s how

By Richard Calland | – History may in due course record 2019 as the year in which the penny finally dropped about the climate emergency […]

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Lawmakers blast Trump plan to take $3.8 billion from Pentagon Budget for Border Wall

Lawmakers blast Trump plan to take $3.8 billion from Pentagon Budget for Border Wall

By Christopher Scragg | – (Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – The Trump administration plans to tap the Pentagon for another $3.8 billion in military funds […]

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The Day Democracy Died, sung by the Founding Fathers

The Day Democracy Died, sung by the Founding Fathers

The Founding Fathers Sing: “”The Day Democracy Died” Sung by The Founding Fathers”

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Rockets slam into US Embassy Compound in Iraq, as Base with US Troops also Comes under Fire

Rockets slam into US Embassy Compound in Iraq, as Base with US Troops also Comes under Fire

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Agence France Presse Arabic is reporting that early Sunday morning several rockets or mortars slammed into the area around the […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Trump’s “Racist” Plan Would Legalize the Theft of Palestinian Land (Democracy Now)

Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Trump’s “Racist” Plan Would Legalize the Theft of Palestinian Land (Democracy Now)

( Democracy Now! ) – We continue our conversation with Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress. She responds to […]

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Sudan's People Power Movement Forced the Military to Share Power, but is the Deal Falling Apart?

Sudan’s People Power Movement Forced the Military to Share Power, but is the Deal Falling Apart?

Khalil Charles | @khalilcharles | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The gap between the military and civilian government in Sudan appears to be widening. […]

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Climate Crisis
The Contribution of Indigenous People to Fighting Climate Change is Hanging by a Thread in Bolivia

The Contribution of Indigenous People to Fighting Climate Change is Hanging by a Thread in Bolivia

By Iokiñe Rodríguez and Mirna Inturias | – Earth’s forests oxygenate the atmosphere and store vast quantities of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO₂). But research suggests […]

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