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Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?
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Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?

Juan Cole

China imported 389,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil in 2025, about 4% of its total

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

01/12/2026 By Richard Drake

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

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If Shoe Were On Other Foot Europeans

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If the Shoe were on the other Foot Europeans who use a credit card to buy an airplane ticket to the United States open themselves […]

Juan Cole

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Attempts At Marginalizing Carter

Attempts At Marginalizing Carter

Attempts at Marginalizing Carter Intensify Fourteen members of the Carter Center have resigned in protest over former president Jimmy Carter’s book,”Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” AP […]

Juan Cole

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Maliki Said To Have Pledged Mahdi

Maliki Said To Have Pledged Mahdi

Maliki Said to Have Pledged Mahdi Crackdown Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that its sources in the Iraqi government are saying that there are some secret […]

Juan Cole

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Cole In Salon Did Us Just Provoke Iran

Cole In Salon Did Us Just Provoke Iran

Cole in Salon: Did the US just Provoke Iran? My article, “Did the US Just Provoke Iran,” about the Irbil attack and other US-Iranian tensions […]

Juan Cole

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Terror Attack On Us Embassy In Athens

Terror Attack On Us Embassy In Athens

Terror Attack on US Embassy in Athens Terrorists fired a rocket from across the street into the US embassy in Athens on Friday morning. The […]

Juan Cole

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Us Forces Storm Iranian Consulate In

Us Forces Storm Iranian Consulate In

US Forces Storm Iranian Consulate in Irbil The US military stormed the Iranian consulate in the northern Iraq Kurdistan city of Irbil on Thursday. Irbil […]

Juan Cole

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Bush Sends Gis To His Private

Bush Sends Gis To His Private

Bush Sends GIs to his Private Fantasyland To listen to Bush’s speech on Wednesday, you would imagine that al-Qaeda has occupied large swathes of Iraq […]

Juan Cole

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Groundhog Day In Purple Heart

Groundhog Day In Purple Heart

Groundhog Day in Purple Heart Boulevard 50 Dead in Clashes, 46 Bodies Found US and Iraqi forces fought a significant street battle at Haifa Street […]

Juan Cole

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Victims Of Violence Triple Bush To

Victims Of Violence Triple Bush To

Victims of Violence Triple Bush to offer more Power to al-Maliki Al-Hayat writing in Arabic says that Da’wa Party official Hasan al-Sunaid, a member of […]

Juan Cole

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