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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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Afghanistan’s China Card

By Dilip Hiro | (Tomdispatch.com) – Call it an irony, if you will, but as the Obama administration struggles to slow down or halt its scheduled withdrawal […]

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War with Iran, by the Numbers

War with Iran, by the Numbers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Sen. John McCain and others on the American Right are in favor of dropping those pesky negotiations with […]

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Afghanistan
Lynching Farkhunda: Birth of Gender Equality and Accountability in Afghanistan?

Lynching Farkhunda: Birth of Gender Equality and Accountability in Afghanistan?

By Solaiman M Fazel | (Informed Comment) The brutal murder of a 27 year old Afghan female student, Farkhunda, at the hands of an angry […]

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What's at Stake in Nuclear Talks for Ordinary Iranians

What’s at Stake in Nuclear Talks for Ordinary Iranians

By Saideh Jamshidi Iran’s new round of nuclear negotiations with the United Nations is expected to be completed by March 31, today. But one thing […]

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Saudi airstrike on Yemen Refugee Camp kills 45

Saudi airstrike on Yemen Refugee Camp kills 45

RT | – 45 people were killed and another 65 injured in an airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition at a refugee camp in Houthi-controlled northern […]

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Iraq
The Forgotten Iraq Front:  ISIL besieges the People of Ramadi

The Forgotten Iraq Front: ISIL besieges the People of Ramadi

VICE News | – “In early March, while the world was watching Iraqi government forces advance on the Islamic State (IS) in Tikrit, IS was […]

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Israel's Netanyahu jumps Shark with “Iran-Lausanne-Yemen” axis barb

Israel’s Netanyahu jumps Shark with “Iran-Lausanne-Yemen” axis barb

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, no longer allowed to sit at the adult table because of his past food […]

Juan Cole

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Climate War on Planet Protested at U of Michigan 50 Yrs after 1st anti-Vietnam War Teach-in

Climate War on Planet Protested at U of Michigan 50 Yrs after 1st anti-Vietnam War Teach-in

Science for the People | – “This event marks the 50th anniversary of the nation’s first teach-in on the war in Vietnam, held at the […]

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Iraq
US Air Strikes Split Iraq Coalition aiming to Take Tikrit

US Air Strikes Split Iraq Coalition aiming to Take Tikrit

By Paul Rogers | (The Conversation) – So it has begun – the US is bombing Tikrit, once a stronghold of Saddam Hussein’s regime and […]

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