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Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
Donald Trump

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more […]

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

06/22/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

06/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Trump's Trade War is tanking US Economy & Destroying 70 Years of World Order

Trump’s Trade War is tanking US Economy & Destroying 70 Years of World Order

By Shiro Armstrong |- President Trump’s “America First” agenda is rapidly trashing the global economic system and the rules and norms the US has championed […]

The Conversation

Banking
‘Slowbalization’: Is the Slowing Global Economy a Boon or Bane?

‘Slowbalization’: Is the Slowing Global Economy a Boon or Bane?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Some economists worry the world has passed “peak globalization.” But that could be good for the planet. By John […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
Bernie Sanders: Criticizing the Israeli Gov't is not anti-Semitic & Palestinians Deserve Rights

Bernie Sanders: Criticizing the Israeli Gov’t is not anti-Semitic & Palestinians Deserve Rights

US Democratic candidate and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has said that criticising Israeli government policy is not anti-Semitic. Speaking at a town hall meeting in […]

Middle East Monitor

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"World-Wide Welcome:" No, Cuccinelli, the Statue of Liberty and Lazarus Poem are not about Whiteness

“World-Wide Welcome:” No, Cuccinelli, the Statue of Liberty and Lazarus Poem are not about Whiteness

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chris Cillizza at CNN quotes the interchange between Erin Burnett and Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
In Wars and Weapons We Trust: America’s Militarized Profession of Faith

In Wars and Weapons We Trust: America’s Militarized Profession of Faith

(Tomdispatch.com ) – When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I looked to the heavens: to God and Christianity (as arbitrated by the Catholic […]

William J. Astore

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Saudi Woman dissident Refuses to Make Video exonerating Saudi State from Torture Charges

Saudi Woman dissident Refuses to Make Video exonerating Saudi State from Torture Charges

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The family of jailed Saudi dissident and women’s rights activist Loujain Hathloul has announced that the Saudi authorities offered to […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Globally and in El Paso, Far-Right Language is Changing, Provoking More Violence

Globally and in El Paso, Far-Right Language is Changing, Provoking More Violence

By Arie Perliger | – The recent shooting attack in which a young white man is accused of killing 22 people in a Walmart in […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel trying to Solve its Gaza Problem with Egyptian Territory?

Is Israel trying to Solve its Gaza Problem with Egyptian Territory?

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – There has been an increase recently in Israeli projects seeking solutions to what it calls the “Gaza […]

Middle East Monitor

Yemen
Yemen's Southern Separatists Seeking International Recognition

Yemen’s Southern Separatists Seeking International Recognition

(Al-Bab.com | – Last Thursday Yemen’s southern separatists sent a letter to the UN Security Council and to the foreign ministers of all EU member […]

Brian Whitaker

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