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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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Dozens Dead In Another Black Friday

Dozens Dead In Another Black Friday

Dozens Dead in another Black Friday Shiite Worshippers Massacred Suicide bombers went into two Shiite religious centers [Husayniyyahs] in Khaniqin northeast of Baghdad on Friday […]

Juan Cole

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Blowing In Wind In Background Of

Blowing In Wind In Background Of

Blowing in the Wind In the background of today’s entries, Bob Dylan’s “blowing in the wind” is playing. How many roads must a man walk […]

Juan Cole

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Skin Is Peeling Off New Iraq White

Skin Is Peeling Off New Iraq White

The Skin is Peeling off the New Iraq: White Phosphorus and Torture Al-Quds al-Arabi: First, the Pentagon was forced to admit that it had in […]

Juan Cole

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Woodward And Insider Trading Bob

Woodward And Insider Trading Bob

Woodward and Insider Trading Bob Woodward, who as a young man exposed the Watergate burglaries has now become wrapped up in a scandal himself. He […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Preparations For

Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Preparations For

Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Preparations for Cairo Conference Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari revealed Tuesday that nearly 200 prisoners detained by the Ministry of the Interior […]

Juan Cole

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Woman Bomber Unrepentant Al Hayat

Woman Bomber Unrepentant Al Hayat

Woman Bomber Unrepentant Al-Hayat: Sajidah Mubarak Atrus al-Rishawi, who attempted to detonate a belt bomb at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman last Wednesday night […]

Juan Cole

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Muslims And 5 Questions Somebody Named

Muslims And 5 Questions Somebody Named

Muslims and the 5 Questions Somebody named Dennis Prager wrote a frankly bigotted op-ed for the LA Times asking “Muslims” 5 questions. The questions are […]

Juan Cole

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Strange Death Of Moustapha Akkad

Strange Death Of Moustapha Akkad

The Strange Death of Moustapha Akkad; Zarqawi and “Halloween” The ironies and dangers of globalization are tragically epitomized in the death last week of Hollywood […]

Juan Cole

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Bombing At Green Zone Exodus Of

Bombing At Green Zone Exodus Of

Bombing at Green Zone; Exodus of Physicians from Capital Guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb outside an entrance to the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad, striking […]

Juan Cole

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