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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Can Turkey's Erdogan ride Rohingya Crisis to global Muslim Leadership?

Can Turkey’s Erdogan ride Rohingya Crisis to global Muslim Leadership?

Turkey’s President has ambitions to lead the Muslim world

Juan Cole

China
Floridians with Solar Inverters had Electricity after Irma & other Green energy success stories

Floridians with Solar Inverters had Electricity after Irma & other Green energy success stories

Solar installations in the US and India have Burgeoned

Juan Cole

Israel
Can Yosef Abramowitz make Solar Power Bloom in Fossil Fuels-Addicted Israel?

Can Yosef Abramowitz make Solar Power Bloom in Fossil Fuels-Addicted Israel?

An American-Israeli entrepreneur promotes Solar Energy where it hasn’t been welcome

Juan Cole

Far Right
Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’

Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’

How the mindless algorithms of social media enabled the far right

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Displaced and Refugees
Saudi-led Airstrikes on Yemen Deadly for Children

Saudi-led Airstrikes on Yemen Deadly for Children

Are Western weapons killing civilians in Yemen?

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
London Covered but 83 Iraqis killed in ISIL attack largely ignored by US TV News

London Covered but 83 Iraqis killed in ISIL attack largely ignored by US TV News

UK lives are precious but aren’t Iraqi lives, as well?

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Russia rebuffs Israeli demand for 40 mi. Buffer with Iran in Syria (Haaretz)

Russia rebuffs Israeli demand for 40 mi. Buffer with Iran in Syria (Haaretz)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – According to Haaretz Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Vldadimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, […]

Juan Cole

Elections
Can Iran keep its Influence in Baghdad?

Can Iran keep its Influence in Baghdad?

Divisions in the Da`wa Party and Iraqi Nationalism pose Challenges to Tehran

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Superstorm Donald Hits GOP, aims to Ravage US

Superstorm Donald Hits GOP, aims to Ravage US

Up Military Spending and cut Budget, & you’ll get a wasteland

Juan Cole

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