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Trump’s Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America’s New Protection Racket
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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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Massive Bomb In Sadr City Kills 74

Massive Bomb in Sadr City Kills 74, Wounds 114 Bin Laden Warns on Shiite Militias Guerrillas detonated a massive car bomb at a market in […]

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Poll Iraq Could Cost Republicans In

Poll Iraq Could Cost Republicans In

Poll: Iraq could cost Republicans in November Election Muqtada: US must Set Withdrawal Timetable A new poll shows that Bush is so disliked that for […]

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Iraq War Broke Back Of Us Counter

Iraq War Broke Back Of Us Counter

Iraq War Broke Back of US Counter-Terrorism: Experts Fresh bombings and assassinations, and the discovery of 18 bodies brought the death toll in Iraq on […]

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Members Of Israeli Parliament On Gaza

Members Of Israeli Parliament On Gaza

Members of Israeli Parliament on the Gaza Operation The USG Open Document Center translates this report from Israeli news broadcasts in Hebrew: Israel: Islamic Movement, […]

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Israel Detains Palestinian Ministers

Israel Detains Palestinian Ministers

Israel Detains Palestinian Ministers Knocks out Electricity to Half of Gazans Half of the Palestinians in Gaza, who were already living pretty miserable lives after […]

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Bombings In Baghdad Baquba Mahaweel

Bombings In Baghdad Baquba Mahaweel

Bombings in Baghdad, Baquba, Mahaweel Guerrilla Groups offer Truce if US will Withdraw Reuters details Iraq’s ongoing civil war violence: Guerrillas bombed a market in […]

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Defending Markos And Discourse

Defending Markos And Discourse

Defending Markos And the Discourse Revolution I’ve been doing a lot of traveling recently, some of it abroad, and have barely been able to keep […]

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Iraqi Sermons From June 23 2006 Usg

Iraqi Sermons From June 23 2006 Usg

Iraqi Sermons from June 23, 2006 The USG Open Source Center translates sermons in Iraq on 6/23/2006: “At 0845 GMT Baghdad Satellite Channel in Arabic, […]

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Israel Invades Gaza Hits Bridges

Israel Invades Gaza Hits Bridges

Israel invades Gaza, Hits Bridges, Electricity The Israeli military destroyed 3 bridges that connect Gaza, and knocked out electricity along the coast, as troops made […]

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