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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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Displaced and Refugees
Why some European countries do more than others to help refugees

Why some European countries do more than others to help refugees

By Tim Hatton | (The Conversation) | – – Not since World War II has Europe faced a refugee crisis comparable with the situation unfolding […]

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Human Rights
Netanyahu Arrest Petition Hits 100,000

Netanyahu Arrest Petition Hits 100,000

By IMEMC News | – – A petition to the UK government and parliament requesting that the government arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “for […]

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Authoritarianism
Those forced to Europe are mostly Regime Change Refugees

Those forced to Europe are mostly Regime Change Refugees

By Thalif Deen | ( Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The military conflicts and political instability driving hundreds of thousands […]

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Unlike Israel's Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia now says it supports Iran Nuclear Deal

Unlike Israel’s Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia now says it supports Iran Nuclear Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Saudi-owned, pan-Arab London daily al-Sharq al-Awsat (the Middle East) reported on the meeting Friday between […]

Juan Cole

Foreign Policy
Donald Trump Fails Foreign Policy 101, calls Interviewer "Third Rate"

Donald Trump Fails Foreign Policy 101, calls Interviewer “Third Rate”

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Donald Trump was on the Hugh Hewitt radio show and fumbled his way through a foreign-policy pop […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Why Don’t Rich Arab Gulf States Welcome Syrian Refugees?

Why Don’t Rich Arab Gulf States Welcome Syrian Refugees?

By Charles Recknagel | (RFE/ RL ) | – – It's hard not to notice how almost all Syrian refugees flee westward rather than seek […]

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Iran
What Iran sacrificed in Deal:  Accepted dependence on Imported Enriched Fuel

What Iran sacrificed in Deal: Accepted dependence on Imported Enriched Fuel

By Farhang Jahanpour | (Inter Press Service) | – – OXFORD (IPS) – Iran’s nuclear programme has been the target of a great deal of […]

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Palestine
UN to Back Raising of Palestinian Flag, defying Israeli Objections

UN to Back Raising of Palestinian Flag, defying Israeli Objections

By IMEMC News | – – Israel asks UN to rebuff flag initiative A draft resolution on raising the Palestinian flag at the United Nations […]

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Top 4 Issues Saudi King Salman will discuss in first visit to Obama's White House

Top 4 Issues Saudi King Salman will discuss in first visit to Obama’s White House

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi King Salman is meeting Friday with President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State […]

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