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Middle East Wars Are Still About Oil and Empire

Bashir Abu-Manneh with Gilbert Achcar Convergence
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.

From Mogadishu to Minneapolis

Elizabeth Schmidt Africa is a Country
The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores a longer history: decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.

The Promise and the Problem of Black History Month

Yohuru Williams The Progressive
Black History Month insists that the struggle for justice did not end with emancipation, federal civil rights legislation, or symbolic inclusion. It reminds us that understanding the past is not about guilt or grievance, but about responsibility.

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Reader Comments: Next Distraction: Epstein Files...Bomb Iran; “Voter Fraud” - Most Dangerous Political Lie; Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein. Why, Noam?; Americans Pay for Almost All of Trump’s Tariffs; This Will Be Big - Next No Kings is March 28

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“International Unions” and Trump’s Aggression Against Canada

Chris Townsend Marxism-Leninism Today
Canadian members of U.S.-based unions – the International Unions – face a new and gigantic question: are the U.S. leaders of their unions doing something, or anything, to oppose the new Trump onslaught on Canada? On them?

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Trump Is Tearing Apart the North American Auto Industry

Taylor C. Noakes Convergence
In the 1960s, the Auto Pact deal integrated the US and Canada’s auto sectors. Donald Trump’s trade war will all but guarantee its unraveling, spelling catastrophe for workers and firms alike.
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