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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

05/18/2025 By The Conversation

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Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Looming Trump Impeachment puts him in Company of Challenged Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If we think about mass politics in the Middle East during the past 8 years as anti-corruption drives, it is […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines

Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Fall “Markedly” in 2019 as Energy Use Declines

By Benjamin Wehrmann and Julian Wettengel | – Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp […]

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Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State

Too Inept to end the fruitless US Forever Wars: Trump v. the National Security State

(Tomdispatch.com) – Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?

After al-Baghdadi, What Future for far-right Mideast Radicalism?

By Natasha Lindstaedt | – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State (IS), is dead. After US special forces raided his safe house in […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The  Carbon Dioxide Horror Show: Sea Level threat to Coastal Cities triples in New Study

The Carbon Dioxide Horror Show: Sea Level threat to Coastal Cities triples in New Study

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scott A. Kulp and Benjamin H. Strauss have published an extremely alarming set of conclusions in Nature in which they […]

Juan Cole

Lebanon
Demanding Democracy: Lebanon's PM Hariri Resigns in Face of Massive Protests, Gridlocked Corrupt Elite

Demanding Democracy: Lebanon’s PM Hariri Resigns in Face of Massive Protests, Gridlocked Corrupt Elite

Montreal (Informed Comment) – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced his resignation1 in a letter to President Michel Aoun. In a public address, the […]

Georges Habib

Donald Trump
Is Trump's Visa Policy a Muslim Ban?  The Numbers tell the Story

Is Trump’s Visa Policy a Muslim Ban? The Numbers tell the Story

By Vahid Niayesh | – Did President Donald Trump’s travel ban – in place now for more than 22 months – become, in practice, a […]

The Conversation

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The Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians that nobody is talking about

The Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians that nobody is talking about

(Middle East Monitor) – Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason […]

Ramzy Baroud

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Bernie Sanders: Give Aid to Gaza; & It isn't  Anti-Semitism to Say Netanyahu Gov't Racist

Bernie Sanders: Give Aid to Gaza; & It isn’t Anti-Semitism to Say Netanyahu Gov’t Racist

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bernie Sanders has almost single-handedly changed the discourse on Israel in the Democratic Party and in the United States more […]

Juan Cole

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