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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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Fallujah Operation Does Not Bring

Fallujah Operation Does Not Bring

Fallujah Operation Does not Bring Peace Wire services report dozens of violent deaths in Iraq on Saturday. Guerrillas attacked a police station in Baghdad, killing […]

Juan Cole

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Engagement Of Rules Rod Nordland And

Engagement Of Rules Rod Nordland And

Engagement of the Rules Rod Nordland and Babak Dehghanpisheh of Newsweek believe that the US military simply cannot win hearts and minds in Iraq. That’s […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi National Guards Us Raid Mosque

Iraqi National Guards Us Raid Mosque

Iraqi National Guards, US, Raid Mosque of Abu Hanifa, Kill 2 Iraqi security forces backed up by US troops raided the famed mosque of Abu […]

Juan Cole

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Will Osamah Bin Laden Benefit From

Will Osamah Bin Laden Benefit From

Will Osamah Bin Laden Benefit from Arafat’s Death? My opinion piece on the implications of Arafat’s passing for al-Qaeda has appeared at Newsday. Excerpt: “Arafat’s […]

Juan Cole

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Reagan First Bush Administrations

Reagan First Bush Administrations

Reagan, First Bush Administrations Cynically winked at Saddam’s use of Chemical Weapons: Salon.com Barry Lando, writing in Salon.com, surveys the ways in which Reagan and […]

Juan Cole

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Did Fallujah Sink Elections Among

Did Fallujah Sink Elections Among

Did Fallujah Sink the Elections? Among the justifications given by the US for its campaign against guerrillas in Fallujah was that it would prepare the […]

Juan Cole

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27 Killed In Iraq Violence 3 Us

27 Killed In Iraq Violence 3 Us

27 Killed in Iraq Violence, 3 US Soldiers Wounded Wire services report that some 27 persons were known to be killed in violent incidents in […]

Juan Cole

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More On Marine Mosque Killing Iraqis

More On Marine Mosque Killing Iraqis

More on Marine Mosque Killing Iraqis continued to be furious Wednesday over the shooting by a US marine of a wounded Iraqi fighter in a […]

Juan Cole

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Election Boycott Announced Forty Seven

Election Boycott Announced Forty Seven

Election Boycott Announced Forty-seven Iraqi political parties, including many with a religious base, have announced that they will boycott the planned January elections. They met […]

Juan Cole

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