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Tidbits-Mar 12- Reader Comments: U.S.-Israel War on Iran; Bombing Creates Toxic Chemical Warfare Black Rain Over Tehran; Kristi Noem Is Out; More on New Wave of Protest Music; Conversation With Professor Angela Davis in New York; Lots of Cartoons;

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Reader Comments: U.S.-Israel War on Iran; Bombing Creates Toxic Chemical Warfare Black Rain Over Tehran; Kristi Noem Is Out; More on New Wave of Protest Music; Conversation with Professor Angela Davis in New York; Lots of Cartoons;

Iran Transformed

Arang Keshavarzian The New York Review of Books
To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

Whatever It Takes

David B. Green The American Prospect
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to great lengths to cling to power.

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Trump Stumped by Worst-Case Iran Scenario

Trump ponders the worst-case scenario, Sen. Markwayne Mullin stumbles over his war semantics, a shit-faced Grace Kuhlenschmidt nominates Trump as Iran’s new supreme leader.

Somali Immigrants Fled Climate Change. Now They’re Facing ICE.

Elham Shirin The New Republic
Somali immigrants in the U.S. haven’t just fled violence—they’ve fled climate catastrophes that the U.S. has helped create. Missing from Trump's hate filled discourse is the pervasive role of climate change in people’s decisions to move from Somalia
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