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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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CAIR: Miami Cult not Muslims I just saw the spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations on CNN saying that the Miami cult members […]

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Senate Rejects Withdrawal Bombings In

Senate Rejects Withdrawal Bombings In

Senate rejects Withdrawal Bombings in Basra, Baghdad, Diyala 25 Executed at Mosul 53% of Americans want a timetable for a phased withdrawal of troops from […]

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Press Access To Internet Being

Press Access To Internet Being

Press Access to Internet being Censored Journalists at the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere are suffering a loss of internet access as a result of […]

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Western Soldiers Writing From Iraq

Western Soldiers writing from Iraq, Then and Now War Post shares letters of soldiers in Iraq back home, from two historical periods. Some letters are […]

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Michigan Peaceworks Event On Sunday

Michigan Peaceworks event on Sunday The internet isn’t very good for narrow-casting, but for my Michigan readers let me draw attention to the following important […]

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Shiite Workers Abducted 4 Marines

Shiite Workers Abducted 4 Marines

Shiite Workers Abducted 4 Marines Killed The US military announced that guerrillas killed four US Marines in al-Anbar Province. Some reports said that guerrillas abducted […]

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For Outgoing Senator Santorum Top Ten

For Outgoing Senator Santorum Top Ten

For Outgoing Senator Santorum: Top Ten Ways We Know Saddam Did not Have WMD “There are many Senators whom I hold in a certain respect […]

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Kirkuk Governor Not Cent From Baghdad

Kirkuk Governor Not Cent From Baghdad

Kirkuk Governor: Not a Cent from Baghdad! The USG Open Source Center translates an interview with the governor of oil-rich, ethnically turbulent Kirkuk city.

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Bombings In Basra Baghdad Us Airstrike

Bombings in Basra, Baghdad US Airstrike Kills 13 at Baqubah A suicide bomber targeted pensioners standing in line in Basra, killing 1 and wounding 5. […]

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