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

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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China
The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran’s Endurance

The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran’s Endurance

The most significant development has been the deployment of China’s YLC-8B 3D long-range surveillance radar.

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
On Seeking Asylum and Refuge in a Hostile Trumpian United States

On Seeking Asylum and Refuge in a Hostile Trumpian United States

The administration has also made legal entry to the U.S. much more difficult in a variety of ways

Rebecca Gordon

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Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect

Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect

Puerto Ricans are subject to taxation without representation, which is against everything the Constitution otherwise stands for

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing  against Palestinians Escalate

Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing against Palestinians Escalate

Atrocities Against Palestinians with Impunity Challenge Rules-Based International Order

Human Rights Watch

Dissent
Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how Faith and Politics reshaped a Generation

Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how Faith and Politics reshaped a Generation

The revolution and its social and political freedoms offered them a space to question everything, including how they relate to Islamic teachings

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Massive Morocco Rainstorms, Flooding: “Passing from a stable Climate System”

Massive Morocco Rainstorms, Flooding: “Passing from a stable Climate System”

Gemenne said that we are passing from a relatively stable climate system to an unstable one, where extreme weather events will multiply

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Steadfast Resistance under Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine

Steadfast Resistance under Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine

The people of Minneapolis and Palestine have both responded to occupation and state terror with extraordinary courage and love

Waging Nonviolence

Nuclear arsenal
Our Enduring Nuclear Nightmare: The End of New START

Our Enduring Nuclear Nightmare: The End of New START

It’s the height of naivety to believe that a global system built on the supposed security of nuclear weapons can endure indefinitely

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar

Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar

Cheap solar and wind can replace imports of expensive and possibly unreliable fossil gas as well as imports of expensive and polluting black coal

Juan Cole

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