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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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Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ( ProPublica ) – For a project explicitly designed to influence Congress, Steve Berger’s operation has left […]

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On Int’l Women’s Day:  In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

On Int’l Women’s Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

( Middle East Monitor ) – The conversation on settler-colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, demonstrated clearly in […]

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump

Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump

By May Darwich, University of Birmingham (The Conversation) – US president Donald Trump famously called Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi his “favourite dictator” in 2019, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Shamash!  “The Threat”

Shamash! “The Threat”

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Juan Cole

Corruption
Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism

Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism

Here is my column this week for Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch at The Nation Institute. Do check in on his poignant and insightful introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ( RFE/RL ) – Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran’s mandatory dress code […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

censorship
Protesting to NY Gov. Hochul for Quashing the Palestinian Studies Post at Hunter College

Protesting to NY Gov. Hochul for Quashing the Palestinian Studies Post at Hunter College

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – The Honorable Kathy Hochul Governor of the State of New York Governor.Hochul@exec.ny.gov   . . […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Authoritarianism
Dumb and Dumber: Trump’s Tariffs will cost each U.S. family $1072, wipe out Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Dumb and Dumber: Trump’s Tariffs will cost each U.S. family $1072, wipe out Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Vancouver (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Just about every day, the U.S. president does something that is incompetent, dangerous, or stupid. Often all three. […]

Peter G. Prontzos

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