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Psychopathocracy 3.0
Donald Trump

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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Can Bernie Sanders yet make Socialism Cool Again?

Can Bernie Sanders yet make Socialism Cool Again?

By Jason Hannan | – Love him or hate him, Bernie Sanders … has inspired a massive, energetic, hardworking and fiercely loyal following, determined to […]

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Bernie Sanders
The Real Losers on Super Tuesday: Urgent Climate Action, Medicare for All, Anti-Plutocracy

The Real Losers on Super Tuesday: Urgent Climate Action, Medicare for All, Anti-Plutocracy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Primaries can be long drawn-out affairs. The Obama-Clinton struggle of spring-summer 2008 went down to the wire, still being contested […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Without the Right of Citizenship in a State, Palestinians are Doomed To Poverty and Unsustainability

Without the Right of Citizenship in a State, Palestinians are Doomed To Poverty and Unsustainability

(Middle East Monitor) – The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) remains in perpetual financial crisis. Spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna has warned […]

Ramona Wadi

Corruption
Can't we All get a Presidential Pardon from Life Imprisonment in the Trump Penal Colony?

Can’t we All get a Presidential Pardon from Life Imprisonment in the Trump Penal Colony?

(Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s the truth of it: I’d like a presidential pardon. Really, I would. And I think I deserve it more than Michael Milken […]

Tom Engelhardt

Afghanistan
Will Trump outreach to Taliban really bring Peace, or is this another Cheap Election-Year Stunt?

Will Trump outreach to Taliban really bring Peace, or is this another Cheap Election-Year Stunt?

By Niamatullah Ibrahimi | – The US has signed an historic agreement with the Taliban that sets Washington and its NATO allies on a path […]

The Conversation

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"The Triumph of Apartheid:" Did the Trump/Kushner Plan help Israel's Netanyahu return to Power?

“The Triumph of Apartheid:” Did the Trump/Kushner Plan help Israel’s Netanyahu return to Power?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Three Israeli television news channels’ exit polls suggest that indicted prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s far-right racist Likud Party fell just […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
The Corporate Democrats' Biden Obsession

The Corporate Democrats’ Biden Obsession

Notre Dame, IN (Special to Informed Comment) – The Establishment wing of the Democratic Party is so worried about the possibility of a Sanders victory […]

Tarek R. Dika

Pentagon
Assad and Putin have Waged Total Air War on Idlib's Civilians, Learning from US Bombing of Iraq

Assad and Putin have Waged Total Air War on Idlib’s Civilians, Learning from US Bombing of Iraq

Paul Rogers | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – The tactics of Syrian and Russian forces are unforgiveable – but scarcely different to what the US and […]

Open Democracy

Displaced and Refugees
Top 5 Ways Syria is the Worst Humanitarian Crisis of the 21st Century

Top 5 Ways Syria is the Worst Humanitarian Crisis of the 21st Century

By Shelley Inglis | – Remember former President Barack Obama’s infamous red line speech in 2012? In that speech, the president made it clear that […]

The Conversation

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