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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change
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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change

Juan Cole

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

02/17/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

02/17/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (4) German Namiba #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (4) German Namiba #savagesunite

German officers arrive in Southwest Africa from Berlin to deal with the Herero, whose rebellion has died down. Ordinarily a colonial state would now move […]

Juan Cole

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Alice Walker: Palestinians face Oppression Much worse than Jim Crow of Old South

Alice Walker: Palestinians face Oppression Much worse than Jim Crow of Old South

On Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!”, celebrated novelist and Pulitzer-Prize winner Alice Walker points out that Palestinians in the Occupied Territories under Israeli control face conditions […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Netanyahu 2002:  Iraq has Centrifuges 'the size of Washing Machines' to Produce A-Bomb

Netanyahu 2002: Iraq has Centrifuges ‘the size of Washing Machines’ to Produce A-Bomb

Israeli PM Binyamin “Chicken Little” Netanyahu tried to scaremonger about Iraq in 2002, as his contribution to the Anglo-American war of aggression on that country. […]

Juan Cole

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (3) German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (3) German Namibia #savagesunite

The rebellion of some among the much-abused Herero people is transformed by the German authorities and settlers into a race war and a pretext for […]

Juan Cole

Iran
It’s Psychological Warfare, Stupid:  Why Netanyahu Really wants to Destroy Iran

It’s Psychological Warfare, Stupid: Why Netanyahu Really wants to Destroy Iran

The Israeli Likud Party’s cover story for why it wants to draw the United States into a war with Iran makes no real sense. Prime […]

Juan Cole

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Cartoon:  Netanyahu Iran Bomb Warnings fall Flat at UN

Cartoon: Netanyahu Iran Bomb Warnings fall Flat at UN

Juan Cole

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Colbert Report: Obama’s Ottoman Conspiracy

Colbert Report: Obama’s Ottoman Conspiracy

Steve Colbert on Rep. Louie Gohmert’s crackpot allegation that Obama is resurrecting the Ottoman Empire The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor […]

Juan Cole

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (2) German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (2) German Namibia #savagesunite

An advertising campaign by bigots in San Francisco and New York asks us to choose, in Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank, between the “civilized […]

Juan Cole

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Is Paul Ryan right that Obama's Foreign Policy is Blowing up in Our Faces?

Is Paul Ryan right that Obama’s Foreign Policy is Blowing up in Our Faces?

Paul Ryan knows nothing about the world or foreign affairs. I presume he may have been abroad at some point somewhere. I don’t know. As […]

Juan Cole

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