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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
Bill of Rights

An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?

Mitchell Zimmerman

Minnesota is an occupied land, abused by lawless thugs. We are all Minnesotans.

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

01/28/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

01/28/2026 By Andrea Mazzarino

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Displaced and Refugees
Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won't cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won’t cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports on the press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening of Prime Minister Binyamin […]

Juan Cole

Middle East
Ukraine as a Global Economic War, and the Role of the Middle East

Ukraine as a Global Economic War, and the Role of the Middle East

Review of Maximilian Hess, “Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West” (London: Hurst & Co., 2023). Barcelona (Special to Informed […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Far Right
Our World-Historical Turning Point – Kairos – is Now, and Everything Depends on the Youths

Our World-Historical Turning Point – Kairos – is Now, and Everything Depends on the Youths

( Tomdispatch.com) – “All Americans owe them a debt for — if nothing else — releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that […]

Liz Theoharis

Donald Trump
America's Theater of the Absurd Election:  Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros

America’s Theater of the Absurd Election: Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 1968, the Youth International Party nominated a pig named Pigasus for president; in 2024, the Republican Party […]

Dan Dinello

Houthi
US Officials Care More about Protecting Oil Tankers than Palestinians

US Officials Care More about Protecting Oil Tankers than Palestinians

By Edward Hunt | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – While Israel continues its military offensive in Gaza, the United States is directing […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Archaeology
Gaza's Oldest Mosque, Destroyed in Israeli Airstrike, was once a Pagan Temple, a Church and had Jewish Engravings

Gaza’s Oldest Mosque, Destroyed in Israeli Airstrike, was once a Pagan Temple, a Church and had Jewish Engravings

Stephennie Mulder, The University of Texas at Austin The Omari Mosque in Gaza was largely destroyed by Israeli bombardment on Dec. 8, 2023. It was […]

The Conversation

Iraq
Afterlife of Occupation : Iraqi Academia and the Peripheries of Resurgence 20 Years After Bush’s Invasion

Afterlife of Occupation : Iraqi Academia and the Peripheries of Resurgence 20 Years After Bush’s Invasion

University of Michigan | Hatcher Graduate Library Discussion | – A panel discussion exploring the landscape of anti-war advocacy within U.S. universities at the outset […]

Juan Cole

Anti-intellectualism
Zionism, Anti-Palestinianism, and the Fall of Harvard's Claudine Gay

Zionism, Anti-Palestinianism, and the Fall of Harvard’s Claudine Gay

Berkeley, CA (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Much of the media conversation about the recent resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, has (rightfully) framed […]

Charles Hirschkind

Debt
The Military-Industrial Complex Is the Winner (Not You) – Overspending on the Pentagon Is Stealing Our Future

The Military-Industrial Complex Is the Winner (Not You) – Overspending on the Pentagon Is Stealing Our Future

( Tomdispatch.com ) – 2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas’s horrific terror attacks on Israel, […]

William D. Hartung

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