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A Triple Entente?  Türkiye interested in joining Saudi-Pakistan Nuclear Security Pact
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A Triple Entente? Türkiye interested in joining Saudi-Pakistan Nuclear Security Pact

Juan Cole

Allies of the US in the Middle East no longer trust Washington to protect them from Israel

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

01/19/2026 By Middle East Monitor

What Iran’s latest Protests tell us about Power, Memory and Resistance

What Iran’s latest Protests tell us about Power, Memory and Resistance

01/19/2026 By The Conversation

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Judge:  All right for NYPD to spy on Muslim-Americans; not all right for Journalists to reveal it

Judge: All right for NYPD to spy on Muslim-Americans; not all right for Journalists to reveal it

(By Sarah Lazare) A federal judge ruled Thursday that the NYPD's secret spying on Muslims in schools, restaurants, and mosques with no evidence of wrongdoing […]

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Barack Obama
The GOP, Race and Ted Nugent:  If you won't Denounce Nazi Insults, What does that Say about You?

The GOP, Race and Ted Nugent: If you won’t Denounce Nazi Insults, What does that Say about You?

(By Juan Cole) Musician Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama a ‘subhuman mongrel.’ He has not been denounced for this language by Greg Abbott, the […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Falk:  Edward Said was the Palestinians' Nelson Mandela

Falk: Edward Said was the Palestinians’ Nelson Mandela

(By Andrew Sondern) Princeton professor emeritus talks Palestinian nationalism in speech at university (via NJ.com) By Andrew Sondern Richard Falk, a professor emeritus of international […]

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Iraq
Iraq: Firebrand Muqtada al-Sadr Lambastes PM as Dictator, Looter & Resigns from Politics (Again)

Iraq: Firebrand Muqtada al-Sadr Lambastes PM as Dictator, Looter & Resigns from Politics (Again)

(By Mustafa Habib, Baghdad) He ended his ten year-long political campaign in a televised speech lasting around 11 minutes. In that speech Iraqi cleric Muqtada […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
The Dark State:  Snowden's Revelations on Secret Gov't Surveillance are the Tip of the Iceberg

The Dark State: Snowden’s Revelations on Secret Gov’t Surveillance are the Tip of the Iceberg

(By Tom Engelhardt) Intelligence officials have weighed in with an estimate of just how many secret files National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden took with […]

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The Iran Breakthrough TV News is Ignoring:  Uranium Stockpile falls below amount Needed for Bomb

The Iran Breakthrough TV News is Ignoring: Uranium Stockpile falls below amount Needed for Bomb

(By Juan Cole) US television newscasters have often slipped up and spoken of an Iranian nuclear “weapons program,” even though no UN inspectors have found […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Racializing Politics:  We don't say "Slav" Democracy troubled in Ukraine, why Talk about "Arab" Failures?

Racializing Politics: We don’t say “Slav” Democracy troubled in Ukraine, why Talk about “Arab” Failures?

The troubles that Ukraine is having (and that Russia and the former Yugoslavia also had) in its post-Soviet politics, with a struggle between authoritarianism and […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt Gov't, Clueless on Journalism, Charges 20 Aljazeera Reporters with "Terrorism" for ... Conducting Interviews

Egypt Gov’t, Clueless on Journalism, Charges 20 Aljazeera Reporters with “Terrorism” for … Conducting Interviews

(By Joe Stork) (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities in recent months have demonstrated almost zero tolerance for any form of dissent, arresting and prosecuting journalists, demonstrators, […]

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Dissent
The other Face of Putin's Olympics:  Pussy Riot Whipped, Beaten for Protest Song at Sochi

The other Face of Putin’s Olympics: Pussy Riot Whipped, Beaten for Protest Song at Sochi

Channel 4 News: “Members of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot are beaten with whips by Russian security police after trying to perform at the […]

Juan Cole

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