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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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Top 8 Ways to tell if you’re a White Supremacist who believes in the Great Replacement

Top 8 Ways to tell if you’re a White Supremacist who believes in the Great Replacement

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the wake of the Buffalo mass murder of 10 African-Americans by a privileged, hateful white teen hopped up on […]

Juan Cole

Haredim
Constantly on the verge of Collapse: How Palestinians became the Linchpin of Israeli Politics

Constantly on the verge of Collapse: How Palestinians became the Linchpin of Israeli Politics

( Middle East Monitor) – Israel’s coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, […]

Ramzy Baroud

Kurds
Why Turkey isn’t on board with Finland, Sweden joining NATO – and why that matters

Why Turkey isn’t on board with Finland, Sweden joining NATO – and why that matters

By Ronald Suny, University of Michigan | – After decades of neutrality, the two Scandinavian states that have to date remained out of the North […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Our Compassion for Ukrainian Victims of War was not on Offer to Iraqis or Afghans when We Invaded

Our Compassion for Ukrainian Victims of War was not on Offer to Iraqis or Afghans when We Invaded

By Nan Levinson | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve been watching this country at war for many years now and, after 9/11, began spending […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
The Iraqi Dust Bowl: The US Invaded for its Oil, but now Climate Change from burning Fossil Fuels is Smothering the Country

The Iraqi Dust Bowl: The US Invaded for its Oil, but now Climate Change from burning Fossil Fuels is Smothering the Country

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some Middle East countries profit off oil and gas, but the very source of their prosperity is threatening their future, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How media reports of ‘Clashes’ mislead Americans about Israeli-Palestinian Violence

How media reports of ‘Clashes’ mislead Americans about Israeli-Palestinian Violence

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona | – Israeli police attacked mourners carrying the coffin of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 13, […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Shireen Abu Akleh: An Independent and International Investigation must be Held into her Killing

Shireen Abu Akleh: An Independent and International Investigation must be Held into her Killing

By Ian Black | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Shireen Abu Akleh’s death may well turn out to be a landmark event in […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Stressed by Drought and Pests, Trees in Southwest are losing Resilience to changing Climate

Stressed by Drought and Pests, Trees in Southwest are losing Resilience to changing Climate

By Fiona L.Q. Flaherty | – ( Cronkite News ) – FLAGSTAFF – The electric blue sky frames a stand of ponderosa pines – their […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

African-Americans
Tucker Carlson's "Great Replacement" Theory Comes From an Anti-US Nazi French Thinker who considered all Americans Negroes

Tucker Carlson’s “Great Replacement” Theory Comes From an Anti-US Nazi French Thinker who considered all Americans Negroes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A hate-filled 18-year-old murdered 10 and wounded 3 African-Americans in Buffalo on Saturday, having penned a rambling screed about replacement […]

Juan Cole

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