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[ad_1] Mnar Adley MintPress News The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule. MintPress exposes this plan.  The Man Behind It All The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it was placing Palestine Action on its list of global terrorist groups, as part of what it called a “broader U.S. government effort to address the threat of transnational far-left terrorism.” The designation is one of the first clear signs that the Trump…

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[ad_1] Tarique Niazi Foreign Policy in Focus  Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir’s trip to Iran on August 24 has ignited new hope for a negotiated end to the the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. He arrived in Tehran with “fresh proposals” to end the current deadlock between Iran and the United Sates and, more importantly, to restart the stalled talks between the two. Munir undertook the trip with the blessings of the top leadership in the United States. Although Islamabad and Washington have been in “constant” conversations as to how to resolve the ongoing conflict…

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[ad_1] “I won’t stop resisting. you can’t use the word ‘hope’ if you don’t resist.” Joshua Scheer In this wide-ranging Q&A, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges answers questions directly from his readers and viewers about the crises defining our age: the genocide in Gaza, the disastrous war with Iran, the collapse of the Democratic Party, Trump’s authoritarian movement, the power of Wall Street and the unchecked militarism hollowing out the American empire. But beneath every exchange lies a deeper question: What does resistance mean when the institutions meant to protect democracy have surrendered to wealth, war and corporate power?…

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[ad_1] The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, Black Agenda Report. The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) strongly condemns “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’,” the open letter published on 20 August 2026 in The Guardian and signed by Western academics and cultural workers in the imperialist core. The letter distorts history, obfuscates the current geopolitical conjuncture, and provides ideological cover for the intensification of the ongoing war against Iran.[1] Similar to accusations against the Palestinian resistance that equate the zionist genocide to resistance-to-genocide, the letter creates a false and dangerous equivalence between the defensive actions of the Islamic Republic of…

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