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Trump terrified of Impact on Midterms of $6 / gal. Diesel as his War Spirals out of Control
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (337+ words) It also tells me that Trump is in deep trouble with his electorate over diesel prices, which affect commodity prices generally, and that he is desperate. According to a late August Reuters/ Ipsos opinion poll, nearly half of respondents say…...
Have the US, Israel and Saudis lost the Battle of the Narrows?
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (335+ words) Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...
Britain Finally bans Goods from the Israeli-Occupied West Bank
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (481+ words) This decision will be followed by several other countries. Last September, Britain together with several other European countries and Canada recognized the state of Palestine. Today, Miliband said that eleven countries, including France, Canada, Spain and Poland, will implement the…...
Hot, Hotter, Hottest: The President from (Literally) Hell
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (429+ words) ( Tom Engelhardt Substack ) – Honestly, I don’t think we really get it yet. Let’s face it. It’s going to be hot, hot, hot. Or do I mean hotter, hotter, hotter, or even hottest, hottest, hottest, or someday, for all we know,…...
Gaza Scholasticide and the American Historical Association
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (157+ words) Informed Comment Academics For Peace on Instagram posted my video for Historians for Peace and Democracy, protesting the refusal of the Council of the American Historical Association to allow the membership to vote on resolutions condemning Israel’s scholasticide against the…...
Iran War: Tehran’s assertive Rhetoric signals a new and dangerous Phase in Conflict
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (860+ words) By Bamo Nouri, City St George’s, University of London and Inderjeet Parmar, City St George’s, University of London Tehran has also announced it is preparing to sign an agreement with Oman which would establish a new corridor through the Strait…...
UN Wants to Right-Size Maps; would it have Saved Trump from Iran Catastrophe?
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (411+ words) Ironically, the Mercator maps probably misled Trump, who is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, into thinking that Greenland is significant enough to go to war with Europe over. As a historian of the Global South, I have long…...
US Communities are Organizing to end Complicity with the Gaza Genocide in their Backyards
1+ week, 1+ day ago (816+ words) ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Dwight Hua’s roommate knocked on his door at 5:30 a.m. on May 22, saying there was a notice for nearly 50,000 people in their city of Garden Grove, California, to evacuate due to the danger of a deadly chemical explosion…...
Racist Cartoonists Can't Decide How to Smear El-Sayed
1+ week, 2+ day ago (711+ words) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Fox News (8/8/26; Time, 8/13/26) that El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are “Islamists”: “They want Sharia law, they hate Jews, they hate Christians, they hate capitalism, they hate America.” President Trump got in on…...
The War on Iran: Six Months of Epic Failure
1+ week, 2+ day ago (242+ words) ( Truthdig ) – We are in the seventh month of a war Donald Trump began on a whim, waged incoherently and lost decisively. But in the demented, steadily shrinking Trump World, he is a hero. Last week, he proudly declared “Mission Accomplished…...