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Trump’s Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America’s New Protection Racket
Donald Trump

Trump’s Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America’s New Protection Racket

Scott Corey

Among authoritarians, economics exists for the sake of political extraction, and private wealth is only permitted on condition of complicity

Israel’s assaults on Palestinian Universities and targeting the Academic Sector

Israel’s assaults on Palestinian Universities and targeting the Academic Sector

01/15/2026 By Middle East Studies Association

Beyond Boiling Point: Historic Iranian Protests Continue Despite Blackouts, Repression

Beyond Boiling Point: Historic Iranian Protests Continue Despite Blackouts, Repression

01/15/2026 By Truthdig

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Rice Meets Syrian Envoy Warren Strobel

Rice Meets Syrian Envoy Warren Strobel

Rice Meets Syrian Envoy Donors Cancel $30 Bn. in Iraq Debt Warren Strobel and Miret el Naggar report on US Secretary of State Condi Rice’s […]

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Sharm El Sheikh On Iraqi T

Sharm El Sheikh On Iraqi T

Sharm El Sheikh on Iraqi T.V. The USG Open Source Center has translated and summarized reports on Iraqi television about the conference being held at […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Murtha Urges Limited Funding Bombing

Murtha Urges Limited Funding Bombing

Murtha Urges Limited Funding Bombing Kills 10 in Shiite Sadr City Iraqi guerrillas killed 3 US troops and wounded 2 on Wednesday. Guerrilla violence killed […]

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Note To Bush And Edwards On How There

Note To Bush And Edwards On How There

Note to Bush and Edwards: On How there is not Really any al-Qaeda in Iraq I caught John Edwards on Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room Wednesday […]

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Bush Vetoes Supplemental For Iraq 11

Bush Vetoes Supplemental For Iraq 11

Bush Vetoes Supplemental for Iraq Rice will be Polite 11 Killed in Minibus attack Bush vetoed the supplemental appropriations bill for Iraq that Congress sent […]

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Mission Accomplished 4 Years On

Mission Accomplished 4 Years On

Mission Accomplished, 4 Years on: A Commentary in Links Remarks by President Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq Thursday evening [May […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
3000 Sadrists Protest Us Raid 32 Killed

3000 Sadrists Protest Us Raid 32 Killed

3,000 Sadrists Protest US Raid 32 Killed in Funeral Bombing Some 3,000 Iraqis came out Monday in Baghdad to protest US military action against the […]

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Iraq War
Touchy Touchy Terrorists Usg Open

Touchy Touchy Terrorists Usg Open

Touchy, Touchy Terrorists The USG Open Source Center summarizes an internet comment by a supporter of the Salafi “Islamic State of Iraq,” in which he […]

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Tenet On Staircase With Neocons My

Tenet On Staircase With Neocons My

Tenet on the Staircase with the Neocons My column in response to George Tenet’s “60 Minutes” interview is available at Salon.com. Excerpt: The French call […]

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