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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change
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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change

Juan Cole

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

02/17/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

02/17/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump’s High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam

S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump’s High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam

If fossil fuels were competitive, Trump wouldn’t have to try so hard to stall permitting for new wind and solar projects

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Who Fears the Truth?  The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

Who Fears the Truth? The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

The edited clip of that speech ricocheted across social media, falsely suggesting

Middle East Monitor

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The Disappearance of Palestine

The Disappearance of Palestine

International support for a Palestinian state has never been stronger, but its territory is disappearing like sand in an hourglass

John Feffer

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Israel Still Throttling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus is Eating Her Face”

Israel Still Throttling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus is Eating Her Face”

Children continue to be affected by airstrikes and the disruption of essential services, with 37 children reported killed since Jan. 1

Juan Cole

BDS
How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

Under pressure from local divestment campaigns, US states and municipalities that underwrote the genocide in Gaza are selling off Israeli bonds.

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume

Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume

As Israel attempts to push the US into war with Iran, it’s worth considering how Tehran could retaliate

Paul Rogers

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UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

Francesca Albanese stands head and shoulders with the great Nobel-Prize women.  Women won for her dedication to international peace

H. Patricia Hynes

Iran
“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

Like cascading waters, or a desert squall another day of my life has fled.

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

Keir Starmer’s government suffered a resounding blow from the UK Supreme Court, which struck down the ban on the activist group Pal Action

Middle East Monitor

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