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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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Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring News Out of Gaza

Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring News Out of Gaza

A conversation between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Republican senator offered an “incredible historical document” showing how the U.S. views its role in […]

Common Dreams

Dissent
Media Coverage of Campus Protests focuses on Spectacle, rather than Substance

Media Coverage of Campus Protests focuses on Spectacle, rather than Substance

By Danielle K. Brown, Michigan State University | – Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For […]

The Conversation

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Israel Bans Al Jazeera Journalists, Network, Joining Syria and Iran as Repressive Regime

Israel Bans Al Jazeera Journalists, Network, Joining Syria and Iran as Repressive Regime

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Committee to Protect Journalists on Sunday condemned the Israeli cabinet’s decision to ban the Al Jazeera news network in […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Violations against Journalists in Palestinian West Bank Multiply

Israeli Violations against Journalists in Palestinian West Bank Multiply

Written by Natacha Danon More than 100 journalists in Gaza have been killed by Israel since it launched its deadly war on the strip, following […]

Global Voices

China
Why are U.S. Sanctions against Iran's Oil Exports Ineffective?

Why are U.S. Sanctions against Iran’s Oil Exports Ineffective?

By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) – Iran is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. But restrictions imposed by the United States […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

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Tens of Thousands of Israelis Demonstrate against Netanyahu, Demand Hostage Exchange Deal, New Elections

Tens of Thousands of Israelis Demonstrate against Netanyahu, Demand Hostage Exchange Deal, New Elections

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that tens of thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday night against the government of Prime […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Why Scapegoating the UN Relief and Works Agency -- Which Helps Palestinians -- Must Stop

Why Scapegoating the UN Relief and Works Agency — Which Helps Palestinians — Must Stop

( Al-Shabakah ) – Shatha Abdulsamad· Informed by the understanding that Palestinian displacement is a combined effect of the UN Partition Plan of 1947 and […]

Al-Shabaka

Climate Crisis
New EPA Rules will force Fossil Fuel Power Plants to cut Pollution

New EPA Rules will force Fossil Fuel Power Plants to cut Pollution

By: Robert Zullo – ( Michigan Advance ) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting […]

Michigan Advance

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Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah

Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Catherine Russell, the head of UNICEF, said this week that of the 600,000 children in Rafah, southern Gaza, all of […]

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