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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

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Rosser Guest Op-Ed: Innocent Kurdish-Americans Victimized by Patriot Act A Travesty of Justice: Oppressing the Kurds of Harrisonburg, Virginia J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. On June […]

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Iraq Intel Chief Decries Partisanship

Iraq Intel Chief Decries Partisanship

Iraq Intel Chief Decries Partisanship From the USG Open Source Center, a translation of an interview with Iraq’s intelligence head: ‘ Iraqi Intelligence Chief Al-Shahwani […]

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Open Source Cole With Wright Here Is

Open Source: Cole with Wright Here is the transcript of my appearance Monday evening with Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker on Chris Lydon’s PRI […]

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Dems Back Phased Withdrawal

Dems Back Phased Withdrawal Republicans: Stay and Stay, Spend and Spend Senate Democrats have come up with two resolutions, with most of the coalescing around […]

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26 Dead In Civil War 3000 Demonstrate

26 Dead in Civil War 3,000 Demonstrate in Karbala Japan has announced that it will withdraw its 600 troops from Iraq over the next few […]

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Friday Prayer Sermons In Iraq Usg Open

Friday Prayer Sermons In Iraq Usg Open

Friday Prayer Sermons in Iraq The USG Open Source Center translates Iraqi television’s roundup of Friday sermons on 16 June. “Iraqi Television: Roundup of Friday […]

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Us Embassy Document Kind Reader Typed

US Embassy Document A kind reader typed up and corrected some typos in the US Embassy document [pdf] published by the Washington Post on Sunday. […]

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Bush’s Abuse of History Snow’s Battle of Bilge The president of the United States is in some ways the nation’s leading public historian. More people […]

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25 Dead In Violence Us Tightens

25 Dead in Violence US Tightens Checkpoints at Ramadi Al-Hayat says that civil war violence [Ar.] killed 25 in Iraq on Sunday. Iraqi police found […]

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