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Is Trump getting US Troops out of Syria, another nail in the Coffin of Bush’s “War on Terror?”
Donald Trump

Is Trump getting US Troops out of Syria, another nail in the Coffin of Bush’s “War on Terror?”

Juan Cole

Trump now has a similar choice, of whether he wants to spend trillions of dollars on a Napoleonic gamble in Iran.

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

02/20/2026 By Nicolas J. S. Davies

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

02/20/2026 By Frida Berrigan

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Academic Freedom
Now They’re Telling Professors what Posters they Can have on their Office Doors, and, no Palestine

Now They’re Telling Professors what Posters they Can have on their Office Doors, and, no Palestine

One of the two posters depicted, in green, red and black, the phrase “Palestine, from the river to the sea”

Committee on Academic Freedom

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s not-so-subtle Push to Annex the Entire Palestinian West Bank

Israel’s not-so-subtle Push to Annex the Entire Palestinian West Bank

The latest cabinet measures extend Israeli civilian administrative reach into areas previously reserved for Palestinian governance.

Middle East Monitor

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With its Togg EV, Turkiye emerges as 4th Biggest European Electric Car Market

With its Togg EV, Turkiye emerges as 4th Biggest European Electric Car Market

44% of the new car market in Turkiye is now battery electric or plug-in hybrid! That is more than California

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Location, contact networks, patterns of communication, and group affiliations make it possible to map the social life of an entire people

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

Trump ran his second candidacy in 2024 on the all-too-bluntly apocalyptic slogan drill, baby, drill us into a literal hell on earth.

Tom Engelhardt

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

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

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

Juan Cole

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

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

Tensions have been building after mass nationwide protests in Iran last month, during which authorities launched a brutal crackdown

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

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

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

The international system today is not only defined by polarity but by dense interdependence. Energy chokepoints generate global conflict

Middle East Monitor

Australasia
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

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