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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

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Leftist Corbyn win as head of UK Labour alarms Israeli Right Wing

Leftist Corbyn win as head of UK Labour alarms Israeli Right Wing

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Saturday quickly led […]

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Bush
How Bush/Cheney's War Plans delayed an Iran Deal for a Decade

How Bush/Cheney’s War Plans delayed an Iran Deal for a Decade

By Farhang Jahanpour | (Inter Press Service) | – – OXFORD (IPS) – When negotiations between Iran and the European “Troika” broke down, the reformist […]

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Militarization
Nearly Half of Republicans Could imagine backing Military Coup

Nearly Half of Republicans Could imagine backing Military Coup

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “New poll out from YouGov that is even more concerning than some of the […]

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al-Qaeda
14 Years after 9/11, US, Israel Tempted to ally with Al-Qaeda in Syria

14 Years after 9/11, US, Israel Tempted to ally with Al-Qaeda in Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Jabhat al-Nusra or Support Front is one of the major rebel groups in Syria, holding […]

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Arab Americans
America's Dumb Bigots:  Sikh Man Beaten Before Anniversary Of 9/11

America’s Dumb Bigots: Sikh Man Beaten Before Anniversary Of 9/11

Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola, and Wes Clark Jr. | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “One tragic aspect of our post-9/11 […]

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Haredim
‘Bibi in Bible Land’: The Likud Party Miscalculates and loses on Iran Deal

‘Bibi in Bible Land’: The Likud Party Miscalculates and loses on Iran Deal

By Shalom L. Goldman | (Informed Comment) | – – Now that the Democratic senators have blocked a challenge to the Iran deal, pundits are […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Can Syrian Asylee Airlift from Turkey to Sweden be Crowd-Funded? Iranian Expats Think So

Can Syrian Asylee Airlift from Turkey to Sweden be Crowd-Funded? Iranian Expats Think So

By Elisabeth Braw | (RFE/ RL) | – – A group of Iranian emigres and friends has announced an ambitious project to mount a crowdfunded […]

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Palestine
Over Israeli, US Objections, UN votes to raise Palestinian flag at HQ

Over Israeli, US Objections, UN votes to raise Palestinian flag at HQ

Ma’an News | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations General Assembly voted late Thursday in favor of raising the Palestinian flag at its […]

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Barack Obama
Top 5 Reasons Obama defeated GOP, AIPAC effort to vote Down Iran Deal

Top 5 Reasons Obama defeated GOP, AIPAC effort to vote Down Iran Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 40 Democratic senators and two independent senators stood with President Obama on Thursday, preventing any congressional […]

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