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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 Conspiracy Theories Hide the Real Plot, of Corporations against our Health

Trump’s Conspiracy Theories Hide the Real Plot, of Corporations against our Health

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump came to power in part because of weird conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, and he is still at it. […]

Juan Cole

Archaeology
Thousands of Years of World's Heritage Endangered in Syria, Cradle of Civilization

Thousands of Years of World’s Heritage Endangered in Syria, Cradle of Civilization

By Lubna Omar | – I used to be a Near Eastern archaeologist working in Syria. Nowadays, I am stuck in academic purgatory, observing from […]

The Conversation

Yemen
Civilian Casualties Mount in Indiscriminate Fighting in Yemen

Civilian Casualties Mount in Indiscriminate Fighting in Yemen

Separatist and Government Forces in Aden Showing Scant Concern for Civilians

Human Rights Watch

Far Right
If the FBI Really Arrested 90 Suspects in Domestic Terror Probe, Why won't they Share Records of Even One?

If the FBI Really Arrested 90 Suspects in Domestic Terror Probe, Why won’t they Share Records of Even One?

By Fritz Zimmermann | ProPublica | – On July 23, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that federal investigations of domestic terrorism […]

ProPublica

Donald Trump
Trump-Saudi War on Yemen Collapsing as Southern Separatists Take Aden

Trump-Saudi War on Yemen Collapsing as Southern Separatists Take Aden

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yemen, a country of 28 million and one of the poorest in the world, had already become a byword for […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
To Avoid Boiling the Earth, we Need a New Agriculture: Farming emits 1/3 of Greenhouse Gases

To Avoid Boiling the Earth, we Need a New Agriculture: Farming emits 1/3 of Greenhouse Gases

By Mark Howden | – We can’t achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement without managing emissions from land use, according to a special […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Trump may Want out of Afghanistan, but He's setting Stage for Global Conflict

Trump may Want out of Afghanistan, but He’s setting Stage for Global Conflict

Even if Trump manages to end the war in Afghanistan, he’s fueling other wars that will be even more devastating.

John Feffer

China
Could Trump's Paranoia on China Bankrupt Us?  His Staged Trade War is Failing

Could Trump’s Paranoia on China Bankrupt Us? His Staged Trade War is Failing

China is coming after us! Time to steel ourselves for battle against the human-rights-violating, currency-manipulating, job-grabbing, intellectual-property-stealing, missile-launching evil doers. Or so Washington, D.C. would […]

Reese Erlich

Donald Trump
Valhalla Awaits! After White Terrorism at Oslo Mosque, what if Trump spoke about Supremacists the Way he does Islam?

Valhalla Awaits! After White Terrorism at Oslo Mosque, what if Trump spoke about Supremacists the Way he does Islam?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A young Norwegian man wearing body armor and carrying two shotguns and a handgun attacked the Al-Noor Mosque in a […]

Juan Cole

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