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Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right
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Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right

Juan Cole

Trump’s Gaza plans have no concrete reality, consisting of a mere Potemkin Village: the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are sleeping rough

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

02/20/2026 By Nicolas J. S. Davies

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

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3 US Soldiers Killed Blackwater Blues Dems Try Again to Bring Troops Home

3 US Soldiers Killed Blackwater Blues Dems Try Again to Bring Troops Home

An FBI investigation has found that the Blackwater Security guards who killed 17 Iraqis in mid-September had broken laws and regulations on the use of […]

Juan Cole

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Jama’at Demands Restoration of the Pakistani Judiciary

Jama’at Demands Restoration of the Pakistani Judiciary

The USG Open Source Center translates an interview given by the leader of Pakistan’s oldest and largest Muslim fundamentalist party, the Jama’at-i Islami [Islamic Society], […]

Juan Cole

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Sunni Party Joins Call for New Elections in Iraq

Sunni Party Joins Call for New Elections in Iraq

Turkish aircraft struck at targets inside Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday, seeking to inflict damage on the Kurdish Worker Party guerrillas who have crossed over into […]

Juan Cole

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Like, Bad Vibes, Man, in Pakistan: Musharraf; Bhutto: Musharraf must Go

Like, Bad Vibes, Man, in Pakistan: Musharraf; Bhutto: Musharraf must Go

The Pakistani public is generally outraged at the repressive measures implemented by Gen. Musharraf, which now include forbidding the importation of satellite dishes to Pakistan. […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
US Drawdown Begins Sadrists call for New Parliamentary Elections

US Drawdown Begins Sadrists call for New Parliamentary Elections

The US military has begun to reverse last year’s troop escalation, which brought the number of combat brigades in Iraq up to 20. It is […]

Juan Cole

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Bhutto Calls for Musharraf to Step down Put under House Arrest

Bhutto Calls for Musharraf to Step down Put under House Arrest

Opposition politician Benazir Bhutto has called for Gen. Pervez Musharraf to resign as president of Pakistan, and says she will never serve as prime minister […]

Juan Cole

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Poll: Turkish Kurds Would not Emigrate to a Kurdistan 72% say US soft on Terror

Poll: Turkish Kurds Would not Emigrate to a Kurdistan 72% say US soft on Terror

The Turkish Daily News reports the results of a poll of persons living in 14 cities in southeastern Turkey, which has a large Kurdish population. […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Shiite Preacher Praises Increased Security Calls for Timetable for US Withdrawal

Shiite Preacher Praises Increased Security Calls for Timetable for US Withdrawal

The USG Open Source Center translates Friday prayer sermons from last week in Iraq. Of particular interest is the sermon of Shiite cleric Sadr al-Din […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Maliki Said to Induct 18,000 Militiamen into Security Services

Maliki Said to Induct 18,000 Militiamen into Security Services

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that PM al-Maliki has taken the controversial decision to recruit 18,000 members of Shiite militias into the Iraqi government security forces. […]

Juan Cole

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