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September 28, 2023

Tidbits – Sept. 28, 2023 – Reader Comments: Holding Oil Industry Accountable; Trump Bankrupt; Netanyahu Map Without Palestine; Support Striking UAW Auto-Workers; Nationwide Free Banned Book Club; Triangle Fire Memorial To Be Dedicated;

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January 26, 2023

Israeli Analysts Worry the US-Israel ‘Special Relationship’ Is Waning As American Jews Abandon Israel

Jonathan Ofir Mondoweiss

A leading Israeli think tank warns the country's “special relationship” with the US is in danger due to a progressive shift among American Jews, which poses a strategic threat to Israel.

April 4, 2022

The Ukraine War and the Looming Food Crisis in the Middle East

Joe Stork Responsible Statecraft

Interrupted wheat supplies from the world’s ‘bread basket’ will profoundly affect a region already in economic turmoil.

March 28, 2022

Ukraine War Threatens Food Supplies in Fragile Arab World

Zenia Karam AP News

From Lebanon, Iraq and Syria to Sudan and Yemen, millions of people in the Middle East whose lives were already upended by conflict, displacement and poverty are now wondering where their next meals will come from.

September 9, 2021

On 9/11, It’s Time for a Reckoning and Reflection of Decades of Failed U.S. National Security Policy

Katrina vanden Heuvel Globetrotter

A reckoning with America’s failed national security policy is long overdue. America’s current vision of security has been ruinous both to the world and to the American people. A different future is possible.

September 9, 2021

The Decline and Fall of the Roman… Whoops!… American Empire - What Really Matters in the U.S. of A.

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch

They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” That cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it wasn’t pretty, was it? Not that anyone should be surprised. Even after 20 years of preparation, a burial never is

August 19, 2021

Afghanistan Tragedy Should End Calls for ‘Regime Change’ in Iran

James North Mondoweiss

The idea was already absurd and dangerous. But now the Afghanistan debacle should bury it permanently. Despite 20 years and $1 trillion in military and other aid, the U.S. supported-government collapsed within weeks.

August 11, 2021

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July 22, 2021

Tidbits - July 22, 2021 - Reader Comments: GOP Wants Wolves to Investigate Themselves; COVID Re-Do; Cuba; Portside's Israel coverage; Space travel; Boycott Pepsico - Support Frito-Lay Workers; Afghanistan; Medicare; Medicare for All; more....

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Reader Comments: GOP Wants Wolves to Investigate Themselves; COVID Re-Do; Cuba; Ethel Rosenberg's Murder; Portside's Israel coverage; Space travel; Boycott Pepsico - Support Frito-Lay Workers; Afghanistan; Medicare; Medicare for All; more....

June 17, 2021

What Ilhan Omar Actually Said

Elizabeth Bruenig The Atlantic

No one should believe that Ilhan Omar thinks the United States is identical to the Taliban. Omar demonstrably did not say what she’s been accused of having said; what she did say was true...

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