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Psychopathocracy 3.0
Donald Trump

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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Israel's Victory in Gaza turns Pyrrhic as a Majority of Youths and Democrats brand it Genocidal

Israel’s Victory in Gaza turns Pyrrhic as a Majority of Youths and Democrats brand it Genocidal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel is losing its campaign against Gaza not so much on the battlefield — though it is unclear that very […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror:  From September 11, 2001, to October 7, 2023 (and Beyond)

Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror: From September 11, 2001, to October 7, 2023 (and Beyond)

Maha Hilal ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In a New Yorker piece published five days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, American critic and public […]

Maha Hilal

Anti-intellectualism
US Mideast Experts Condemn Israeli Killing of Gaza Professors, University Administrators

US Mideast Experts Condemn Israeli Killing of Gaza Professors, University Administrators

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  pmoh@pmo.gov.il . . . Prime Minister, Ministers, […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Climate Crisis
Top 3 Pieces of Good Green Energy News this Year

Top 3 Pieces of Good Green Energy News this Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The climate crisis is the most serious challenge facing our globe, and it is natural to do some doom-scrolling about […]

Juan Cole

Anti-intellectualism
Legal Bullying Aims to Silence Campus Critics of Israel

Legal Bullying Aims to Silence Campus Critics of Israel

Title VI was designed to end discrimination and harassment on campus, but the law can also be misused, as partisans of Israel have done, to […]

Common Dreams

Education
Condemning Punitive Measures against Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities

Condemning Punitive Measures against Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Bar Ilan University Ben Gurion University of the Negev Hebrew University […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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How Israel's Starvation of the Gaza Palestinians Has led Biden to try to Starve the Yemenis

How Israel’s Starvation of the Gaza Palestinians Has led Biden to try to Starve the Yemenis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The British Royal Air Force and the American Air Force bombed the Yemeni capital of Sanaa again on Tuesday, in […]

Juan Cole

Hamas
How much Influence does Iran have over its Strategic Allies -- Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis?

How much Influence does Iran have over its Strategic Allies — Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis?

By Sara Harmouch, American University and Nakissa Jahanbani, United States Military Academy West Point | – From attacks by rebels in the Red Sea to […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump’s Far Right Allies Plot to Take over the European Union and Sink its Green Deal

Trump’s Far Right Allies Plot to Take over the European Union and Sink its Green Deal

( Tomdispatch.com) – It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential […]

John Feffer

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