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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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At Least 19 Dead In Guerrilla Violence

At Least 19 Dead In Guerrilla Violence

At Least 19 Dead in Guerrilla Violence Guerrillas detonated bombs near Balad, and in Samarra. Mortar rounds fell in Baghdad and there was a car […]

Juan Cole

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Sufi Gathering Targeted 10 Dead Andrew

Sufi Gathering Targeted 10 Dead Andrew

Sufi Gathering Targeted, 10 Dead Andrew Marshall of Reuters reports, “A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of Sufi Muslims north of Baghdad, […]

Juan Cole

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12000 Dead In Iraqi Guerrilla War Rate

12000 Dead In Iraqi Guerrilla War Rate

12,000 Dead in Iraqi Guerrilla War Rate of Killing Same as Under Saddam The final toll for Iraqis killed in guerrilla violence or the USG/Iraqi […]

Juan Cole

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Oil Workers Mobilize Iran Poised To

Oil Workers Mobilize Iran Poised To

Oil Workers Mobilize Iran Poised to Help with Reconstruction Greg Muttit of the Guardian reports that the Iraqi oil workers’ union is gearing up to […]

Juan Cole

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9 Dead In Tuz Khurmatu Bombing Deputy

9 Dead In Tuz Khurmatu Bombing Deputy

9 Dead in Tuz Khurmatu Bombing Deputy Governor of Diyala Assassinated in Baqubah Poisoned Watermelons Iraq looked more and more like a macabre horror film […]

Juan Cole

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Warring Visions Of Iraqi Federalism

Warring Visions Of Iraqi Federalism

Warring Visions of Iraqi Federalism “Sumer” Rises in South Al-Hayat says that its sources in Iraq describe an ongoing dispute between the Kurds, who want […]

Juan Cole

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Womens Demonstration In Egypt Women

Womens Demonstration In Egypt Women

Women’s Demonstration in Egypt Women demonstrated in Cairo on Wednesday as part of a general protest by journalists and other oppositionists. They maintain that they […]

Juan Cole

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Fallujah Film Italian Magazine Diario

Fallujah Film Italian Magazine Diario

Fallujah Film The Italian magazine Diario has posted to its web site a film of Fallujah made by Iraqis (apparently by Iraqi government workers sent […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqization Of Afghanistan Suicide

Iraqization Of Afghanistan Suicide

The Iraqization of Afghanistan A suicide bomber walked into the Abd al-Rabb Mosque in the southwestern city of Qandahar, Afghanistan, at 9 am Wednesday morning […]

Juan Cole

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