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Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump’s Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)
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Gaza, Yemen, Iran: Trump’s Opening Gambits in the Middle East (Juan Cole on The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini)

Juan Cole

Juan Cole Interviewed by Francesca Fiorentini: “The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini): How To Lose a Country In 100 Days with Josh Gondelman & Juan […]

The Gaza Precedent: Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid

The Gaza Precedent: Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid

05/18/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The Gulf States have Long Boosted US Economic Dominance, even if not every President Got a Free Private Jet

The Gulf States have Long Boosted US Economic Dominance, even if not every President Got a Free Private Jet

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Iran
Trump put the US on a War footing Iran: Biden must Reverse that Immediately

Trump put the US on a War footing Iran: Biden must Reverse that Immediately

By Manon Dark | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The current controversy over Iran’s nuclear program is one of Trump’s lingering foreign policy […]

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Climate Crisis
Germany sees record greenhouse gas emission fall due to pandemic, renewables

Germany sees record greenhouse gas emission fall due to pandemic, renewables

By Kerstine Appunn and Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly nine percent in 2020 – the […]

Clean Energy Wire

Cold War
Why the Suez Canal, now blocked, is so Important to the Global Economy and World History

Why the Suez Canal, now blocked, is so Important to the Global Economy and World History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The super-super tanker Ever Given is stuck kitty-corner in the Suez Canal, having apparently run up on a sand bar. […]

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Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren't going Quietly

Turkey’s Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren’t going Quietly

By Devran Gule and Leïla Choukroune | – In a single-paragraph statement issued at around 2am on March 20, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet

How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – This March, the leading global consulting firm IHS Markit held its CERAWeek conference, billed as the ​“world’s premier energy […]

Basav Sen

Afghanistan
Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?

Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?

( Tomidispatch.com ) – In the first two months of Joe Biden’s presidency, you could feel the country holding its breath. Sheltered in place, hidden […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Featured
It doesn't have to be this Way: England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258

It doesn’t have to be this Way: England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258

Revised We are reeling from back-to-back mass shootings, in Atlanta and Boulder. The main similarities of the two are that the young alleged murderers easily […]

Juan Cole

Asian-Americans
On a Quilt of Oppression and Injustice: From the Vietnam War to the Murder of Asian-American Women

On a Quilt of Oppression and Injustice: From the Vietnam War to the Murder of Asian-American Women

An Thuy Nguyen | – Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The deadly mass shooting on March 16 targeting Asian American women working at […]

An Thuy Nguyen

Inequality
On Tax Day, the Billionaires must Start Paying their Fair Share

On Tax Day, the Billionaires must Start Paying their Fair Share

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions. Elephants occupy […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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