Archive for June 2024
The Crisis of the University and Student Movements
For me, the current wave of student protests on US university campuses over Israel’s war on Gaza remind me of the horrendous U.S. war on Vietnam in the 1960s and the 1970s and the protest movement rolling from one campus to another. This wave of unprecedented student protests helped to form a New Left, an…
Read MoreIranian Hegemony in the Middle East
Since the attacks initiated by Hamas on Israel on October 7 and Israel’s retaliatory counteroffensive, the main question on the mind of many analysts and observers has been about the role of Iran in this conflict. Although Iranian authorities never spelled out clearly their role in the Gaza conflict, and the Hamas leaders have been…
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