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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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The Story of Arab-Jews Instills Hope

The Story of Arab-Jews Instills Hope

Reflections on Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds : Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, London: Oneworld, 2023, 324 pp. During my stay in Iran in 2016, I heard […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

Far Right
Marjorie Taylor Greene only Cares about some Murders, and not those committed by Far Right with AR-15s

Marjorie Taylor Greene only Cares about some Murders, and not those committed by Far Right with AR-15s

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Say her name!” Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the House floor during President Biden’s State of the Union Address. The same slogan […]

Arnold R. Isaacs

Houthi
Iran-US secret Backchannel Talks Suggest that for Both Sides Pragmatism beats Ideology

Iran-US secret Backchannel Talks Suggest that for Both Sides Pragmatism beats Ideology

By Shabnam Holliday, University of Plymouth | – (The Conversation) – Recent revelations that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the US have held secret […]

The Conversation

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Israel’s Lavender Murderbot is Programmed to Kill up to a Third of all Palestinian Civilians in Gaza

Israel’s Lavender Murderbot is Programmed to Kill up to a Third of all Palestinian Civilians in Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The incredibly brave and resourceful Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham revealed Wednesday in a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism that the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Gaza War at Six Months: Top 5 Recommendations for Ending the Fighting and Ensuring Human Security

The Gaza War at Six Months: Top 5 Recommendations for Ending the Fighting and Ensuring Human Security

The Gaza War at Six Months: Five Recommendations for Ending the Fighting and Ensuring Human Security in Israel-Palestine ( The Center for International Policy ) […]

Center for International Policy

Inequality
Erdoğan’s streak came to a screeching Halt as Turkey’s economy pays the price for Years of Policy Mistakes

Erdoğan’s streak came to a screeching Halt as Turkey’s economy pays the price for Years of Policy Mistakes

By Gulcin Ozkan, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – For many years, it wasn’t the economy that determined voting behaviour in Turkey. The […]

The Conversation

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Was Israel's Strike on Iranian Embassy in Damascus an attempt to draw the US into the War?

Was Israel’s Strike on Iranian Embassy in Damascus an attempt to draw the US into the War?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s airstrikes Monday on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, which killed a senior general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Epic Fail: The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack up its War and Go Home

Epic Fail: The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack up its War and Go Home

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took […]

Nick Turse

Anti-intellectualism
Texas’ Gov. Abbott:  Stop Weaponizing “Antisemitism” to Harass Campus Critics of Israeli Policy

Texas’ Gov. Abbott: Stop Weaponizing “Antisemitism” to Harass Campus Critics of Israeli Policy

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott regarding Executive Order GA-44 2 April 2024   […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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