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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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Dem Leadership brands as "Shameful" Pence's Agreement for Turkey "Pause" in Kurdish Areas

Dem Leadership brands as “Shameful” Pence’s Agreement for Turkey “Pause” in Kurdish Areas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mariam Khan at ABC News reports that yesterday speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority Leader Chuck Schumer […]

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The Greening of the New Deal

The Greening of the New Deal

The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now

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Are Israel Lobbies Primary Threat to First Amendment? Report Exposes Right-Wing Effort to Ban Criticism of Israel in US Schools

Are Israel Lobbies Primary Threat to First Amendment? Report Exposes Right-Wing Effort to Ban Criticism of Israel in US Schools

By Jessica Corbett, staff writer | – ( Commondreams.org) – “Fanatical Zionists are pushing U.S. state legislatures to pass sweeping new restrictions on free speech.” […]

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By rejecting stereotypes, Slam and Ramy show us authentic Arab Muslim men on screen

By rejecting stereotypes, Slam and Ramy show us authentic Arab Muslim men on screen

By Sherene Idriss | – There is a long history of damaging stereotypes of Arab and Muslim men on screen. Because of this, audiences from […]

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Blaming Victims, Trump  attacks Syrian Kurds as "Communists," "No Angels," PKK as worse than ISIL

Blaming Victims, Trump attacks Syrian Kurds as “Communists,” “No Angels,” PKK as worse than ISIL

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dispatches from the Great Trump Clown Parade, which would be gut-busting hilarious if it did not involve real-world dark horrors, […]

Juan Cole

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Trump's Endless Wars

Trump’s Endless Wars

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a […]

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Does Facebook impose curfews on Palestinians in the ‘blue world’?

Does Facebook impose curfews on Palestinians in the ‘blue world’?

By Hossam Shaker | – When the Arab youth revolted in 2011 to demand freedom and democracy in their countries, Facebook was the social media […]

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Syria: why the Kurds had little option but to do a deal with Bashar al-Assad

Syria: why the Kurds had little option but to do a deal with Bashar al-Assad

By Cengiz Gunes | – When the Syrian military withdrew from the Kurdish populated regions of Syria in July 2012, they left the Kurds in […]

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Russians, Syrian Army take over Manbij and its US Bases, Blocking Turkey

Russians, Syrian Army take over Manbij and its US Bases, Blocking Turkey

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) took control of the city of Manbij on Tuesday, with Russian gendarmes taking up patrols […]

Juan Cole

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