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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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Wright: Assassinations Strengthen Religious Terrorist Groups

Wright: Assassinations Strengthen Religious Terrorist Groups

Robert Wright argues that not only is assassination (including by drone) legally and ethically troubling, but there is reason to think that it is counterproductive […]

Juan Cole

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Obama hints that Two-State Solution may be Impossible

Obama hints that Two-State Solution may be Impossible

President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday that despite the expenditure of substantial political capital by his administration it may be that no progress will be made […]

Juan Cole

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Englehardt On Bombing People from the Air

Englehardt On Bombing People from the Air

Tom Engelhardt on Americans fighting their wars ‘from on high.’ Alas, it isn’t American, it is just industrialized warfare. Pakistan is bombing its own people, […]

Juan Cole

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US Attitudes, Discourse on Israel Shifting to Realism

US Attitudes, Discourse on Israel Shifting to Realism

A dispassionate examination of Israeli policy and its negative impact on the US at the Wilson Center by 5 former ambassadors is summarized at the […]

Juan Cole

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Turkey, Brazil Come out against new Iran sanctions at Security Summit

Turkey, Brazil Come out against new Iran sanctions at Security Summit

Presidnt Obama’s nuclear security summit scored an early victory on Monday, since Obama was able to announce that Ukraine would give up its stock of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis Could Expel Thousands of Palestinians from Palestine

Israelis Could Expel Thousands of Palestinians from Palestine

New Israeli regulations allow authorities potentially to imprison or expel from the West Bank tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Israeli right has long favored […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
170 Killed in Afghanistan as Gates, Cheney, Palin Wrangle over Karzai

170 Killed in Afghanistan as Gates, Cheney, Palin Wrangle over Karzai

170 people were killed in Afghanistan during the past week in political violence, according to an interior ministry spokesman. Radio Azadi reports in Persian that […]

Juan Cole

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Blog Migration

Blog Migration

Old-time readers please bear with me as I move the blog to a new hosting server and a new publishing software (Wordpress). And, don’t worry, […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
President Weakened, but Pakistani State Kills 100 in Bombings, Clashes

President Weakened, but Pakistani State Kills 100 in Bombings, Clashes

On Saturday, fierce Pakistani fighter-jet bombardments of suspected militant positions in Khyber left dozens of persons dead and local tribal leaders livid at what they […]

Juan Cole

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