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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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Trump Pledges to "Look into" Paranoid Charges of Muslim-American Terror camps

Trump Pledges to “Look into” Paranoid Charges of Muslim-American Terror camps

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump has probably benefited so far from giving long stemwinders of a speech on the […]

Juan Cole

Iran
As Iran takes on ISIL/ Daesh, can it avoid the Sectarian Trap?

As Iran takes on ISIL/ Daesh, can it avoid the Sectarian Trap?

By Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | – – In an obvious attempt to show initiative and good will, President Hassan Rouhani recently declared Iran’s […]

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Children
Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000

Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 1,991 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces and extremists since 2000, according […]

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Dissent
A Guru for Our Time:  Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

A Guru for Our Time: Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

By Stuart Schaar | (Informed Comment) | – – In the early 1960s I was living in Rabat while researching my doctoral dissertation for Princeton […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Refugees from the Phony Caliphate: Iraqis hire People Smugglers to escape Mosul

Refugees from the Phony Caliphate: Iraqis hire People Smugglers to escape Mosul

Special Correspondent | (Niqash.org) | – – Hassan Hafouzi* and his family paid people smugglers so they could leave Mosul, the city controlled by the […]

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How GOP Candidates would Deal with Syria, Short Version

How GOP Candidates would Deal with Syria, Short Version

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Political Satire In the course of the second GOP debate at CNN, anchor Jake Tapper asked […]

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Syria
America can -- and should -- Do More for Syrian Refugees

America can — and should — Do More for Syrian Refugees

By Chris Toensing | (Otherwords.org) | – – Imagine that 58 million Americans were streaming into Canada and Mexico, many with only a small satchel […]

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Iran
Rouhani: forget Geopolitics: Iran's real Enemies are Water & jobs Shortages & Drugs

Rouhani: forget Geopolitics: Iran’s real Enemies are Water & jobs Shortages & Drugs

By RFE/RL | – – – Iran’s President Hassan Rohani has warned that water shortages, unemployment, inflation, and problems like drug addiction are threatening the […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem

Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Several foreign activists stripped bare near the Israeli separation wall in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank in refusal […]

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