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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Shopping In Iraq Informed Observer

Shopping In Iraq Informed Observer

Shopping in Iraq An informed observer writes: ” The thrust of the Farnaz Fassihi email, now, if not before, in the mainstream, and Dexter Filkins’ […]

Juan Cole

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Bombs In Taba Multan Baghdad Signal

Bombs In Taba Multan Baghdad Signal

Bombs in Taba, Multan, Baghdad Signal Failure of War on Terror Three major bombs went off between the Nile and the Indus rivers on Thursday. […]

Juan Cole

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Conditions In Iraq Zaid Al Ali Iraqi

Conditions In Iraq Zaid Al Ali Iraqi

Conditions in Iraq Zaid al-Ali, an Iraqi attorney who has practiced in New York and Paris, returned to his native land recently and wrote about […]

Juan Cole

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At Least 19 Killed In Violence Over 2

At Least 19 Killed In Violence Over 2

At Least 19 Killed in Violence, over 2 Dozen Wounded Reuters reports that guerrillas detonated a car bomb at Anah near the Syrian border, targeting […]

Juan Cole

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Wmd Myth Meant To Deter Iran First Cia

Wmd Myth Meant To Deter Iran First Cia

WMD Myth Meant to Deter Iran First, the CIA comes out and says it can’t find any convincing evidence that Saddam Hussein harbored Abu Musab […]

Juan Cole

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Cheney Rumsfeld And Bremer Deserting

Cheney Rumsfeld And Bremer Deserting

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bremer: Deserting a Sinking Ship How to understand the sudden outbreak of candor among Bush administration officials (or former officials) about Iraq […]

Juan Cole

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Kerry On Iraq Guest Editorial By

Kerry On Iraq Guest Editorial By

Kerry on Iraq: Guest Editorial by Joseph White Professor Joseph White, Director of the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has kindly […]

Juan Cole

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Sistanis Threat January Elections Are

Sistanis Threat January Elections Are

Sistani’s Threat: January Elections are a Must Al-Zaman/DPA: The office of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has issued a demand that free and clean elections be […]

Juan Cole

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41 Dead Over 100 Wounded 2 Us Soldiers

41 Dead Over 100 Wounded 2 Us Soldiers

41 Dead, over 100 Wounded 2 US soldiers Killed Sunday Al-Jazeerah is reporting heavy fighting in the Shiite slums of East Baghdad between US forces […]

Juan Cole

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