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Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump’s Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)
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Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump’s Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)

Juan Cole

Juan Cole Interviewed by Francesca Fiorentini: “The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini): How To Lose a Country In 100 Days with Josh Gondelman & Juan […]

The Gaza Precedent: Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid

The Gaza Precedent: Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid

05/18/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The Gulf States have Long Boosted US Economic Dominance, even if not every President Got a Free Private Jet

The Gulf States have Long Boosted US Economic Dominance, even if not every President Got a Free Private Jet

05/18/2025 By The Conversation

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Russia: Permanent Bases planned in Syria to fight Terrorism

Russia: Permanent Bases planned in Syria to fight Terrorism

By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | – – The US military says that the number of ISIL fighters in eastern Syria has fallen from […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Egyptian parliament moves to make atheism a crime

Egyptian parliament moves to make atheism a crime

Brian Whitaker | ( al-Bab.com The Egyptian parliament’s committee on religion has announced plans to make disbelief in God a crime. Under the current law against […]

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Barack Obama tells Prince Harry how he felt after Donald Trump's inauguration (Video)

Barack Obama tells Prince Harry how he felt after Donald Trump’s inauguration (Video)

Prince Harry/ Barack Obama | (BBC News Video) | – – “Barack Obama opens up about how he felt after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US […]

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Is Trump's threat to sacred Bears Ears like Taliban blowing up Buddhas?

Is Trump’s threat to sacred Bears Ears like Taliban blowing up Buddhas?

George Nicholas | (The Conversation) | – – For many archaeologists, one of the darkest moments in memory was the destruction of the fourth and […]

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Donald Trump
Trump “not welcome” in UK after Neo-Nazi retweets: London Mayor

Trump “not welcome” in UK after Neo-Nazi retweets: London Mayor

Middle East Monitor | – – Describing London as the city of “tolerance, acceptance and diversity”, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, however, on Wednesday said President […]

Juan Cole

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Chess is Universal; Saudi Arabia isn't: Women's Boycott, Israeli Lawsuit

Chess is Universal; Saudi Arabia isn’t: Women’s Boycott, Israeli Lawsuit

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Arabia under the hyper-active crown prince Muhammad Bin Salman is undertaking rapid changes in society […]

Juan Cole

China
Heating with Coal Takes 3 Years off Your Life: China Study

Heating with Coal Takes 3 Years off Your Life: China Study

Feng Hao | (ChinaDialogue) | – – Lives in northern China are shorter than in the south because of air pollution from heating, reports Feng Hao In […]

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Islamophobia
Ignoring Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing is Creating another Palestine

Ignoring Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing is Creating another Palestine

Middle East Monitor | – – The international community must act swiftly on the Rohingya crisis or the world will create another Palestine. That was […]

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Oil Giants' $180 Bn Binge on Plastics to *Permanently* Pollute Oceans

Oil Giants’ $180 Bn Binge on Plastics to *Permanently* Pollute Oceans

TeleSur | – – Major chemical and petroleum companies knew about the copious amounts of water pollution caused by them as far back as the […]

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