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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change
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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change

Juan Cole

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

02/17/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

02/17/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Cheney Blames Democrats For High Oil

Cheney Blames Democrats For High Oil

Cheney Blames Democrats for High Oil Prices (!) US Vice President Dick Cheney lambasted the Democrats on Tuesday for causing high petroleum prices. I don’t […]

Juan Cole

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Do People Want To Hurt Us Because Were

Do People Want To Hurt Us Because Were

Do People Want to Hurt us Because We’re on the Offensive? A sound bite from President Bush on Monday strikes me as emblematic of the […]

Juan Cole

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Marine Kirkuk Police Iraqi National

Marine Kirkuk Police Iraqi National

Marine, Kirkuk Police, Iraqi National Guard Killed Agence France Press reported that guerrillas killed a US Marine Tuesday in al-Anbar Province during ‘security and stability […]

Juan Cole

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Series Of Arrests In Pakistan Reveals

Series Of Arrests In Pakistan Reveals

Series of Arrests in Pakistan reveals Plot to bomb Finance Centers The uncovering of a possible al-Qaeda plot against key US financial centers in New […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtadas House Besieged By Marines Us

Muqtadas House Besieged By Marines Us

Muqtada’s House Besieged by Marines US Marines and Iraqi National Guard troops headed for the house of Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday, possibly in an another […]

Juan Cole

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Muslim Clerics Decry Targetting Of

Muslim Clerics Decry Targetting Of

Muslim Clerics Decry Targetting of Christians Iraq’s major religious leaders all strongly condemned Sunday’s bombing of Iraqi churches. Newsday writes, ‘ Iraq’s top Shia Muslim […]

Juan Cole

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At Least 28 Dead Over 100 Wounded In

At Least 28 Dead Over 100 Wounded In

At Least 28 Dead, Over 100 Wounded in Iraq Attacks 1 US Soldier from 1st ID among Killed Early Sunday in Mosul, guerrillas attacked a […]

Juan Cole

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Electricity Riots In Najaf Amara

Electricity Riots In Najaf Amara

Electricity Riots in Najaf Amara Council Dissolved Al-Zaman: For the second straight day on Sunday, angry crowds attacked the Electricity Office in downtown Najaf, protesting […]

Juan Cole

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Rocco Martino I Am Source Of False

Rocco Martino I Am Source Of False

Rocco Martino: ‘I am the Source of the False Niger/Iraq Uranium Story’ The Sunday Times on Sunday and the Financial Times on Monday report that […]

Juan Cole

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