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

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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Facing a Smart, Confident Younger Black Woman Trump Is Running Scared

Facing a Smart, Confident Younger Black Woman Trump Is Running Scared

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – One of the nation’s best-known Black Republicans is former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In the […]

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Climate Crisis
Tim Walz took Minnesota to 54% Clean Electricty and Annual Reductions of Carbon; Can he do it for the USA?

Tim Walz took Minnesota to 54% Clean Electricty and Annual Reductions of Carbon; Can he do it for the USA?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Democratic National Convention on Wednesday evening introduce Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, to the American public. It was […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel’s Far Right Wing Government Prolonging the Gaza Genocide as a Smokescreen for annexing the West Bank?

Is Israel’s Far Right Wing Government Prolonging the Gaza Genocide as a Smokescreen for annexing the West Bank?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Promises of “absolute victory” in Gaza are nothing but “gibberish”, according to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Gallant’s comments […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
The overshoot Myth: you can’t keep burning Fossil Fuels and expect Scientists of the Future to get us back to 1.5°C

The overshoot Myth: you can’t keep burning Fossil Fuels and expect Scientists of the Future to get us back to 1.5°C

By James Dyke, University of Exeter; Robert Watson, University of East Anglia and Wolfgang Knorr, Lund University | – The Conversation – Record breaking fossil […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
There’s only One Issue in the 2024 Election: The Survival of a Habitable Earth

There’s only One Issue in the 2024 Election: The Survival of a Habitable Earth

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In mid-July, Nature Climate Change published a global survey of over 9,000 scientists. Its findings should be like the sirens […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
The Kurdish Town of Kocho is the ‘Guernica’ of the 21st Century

The Kurdish Town of Kocho is the ‘Guernica’ of the 21st Century

( Rudaw.net) – A decade ago, on August 3, 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) conquered the village of Kocho (Kojo) in the Sinjar (Shingal) area […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Corporations
America the Unwell: The Corporate Greed Threatening our Stability

America the Unwell: The Corporate Greed Threatening our Stability

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One thing our government doesn’t like doing is challenging the greed of health insurance companies. I can speak with some authority […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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Time to end the "No Daylight" Approach to America's Israel Policy

Time to end the “No Daylight” Approach to America’s Israel Policy

Monterey, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last month’s sad passing of Martin Indyk provides an opportunity to reflect on the US Middle East […]

Glenn E. Robinson

Food Insecurity
Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime: Retaliatory July Strike on Hodeidah Threatens Food, Aid, Electricity Supply

Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime: Retaliatory July Strike on Hodeidah Threatens Food, Aid, Electricity Supply

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on the evening of July 20, 2024, were an apparently unlawful indiscriminate or […]

Human Rights Watch

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