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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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Immigration
Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us

Defeating Fascism: What a Danish Woman Imam and Swiss Progressives can teach us

She used her networking skills to track down some of the extremist leaders of the anti-immigrant movement, then she went to see them.

George Lakey

Counter-Terrorism
Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US 'Global War on Terror'

Half a Million Dead, $5.9 Trillion Bill: The True Costs of US ‘Global War on Terror’

in the last two years, the U.S. has launched strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.

Stephanie Savell

Antisemitism
French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace

French Neo-Nazis Desecrate Jewish Cemetery with Swastikas in Alsace

Strasbourg (AFP) – Around 80 graves have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said, hours ahead of nationwide […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
John Legend: "For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians"

John Legend: “For too long it has been out of balance for progressives to speak up for the rights of Palestinians”

“It means we see a young Palestinian kid not as a future security threat or demographic challenge, but as a future father, mother and lover.”

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump
Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump

Sleepwalking into our Constitutional Crisis in the Age of Trump

As a historian of the Middle East, let me just point out that declaring a state of emergency is a means of creating a president for life

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock

Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock

In addition to the mini-nukes to be loaded onto missiles on nuclear subs, Trump is also advocating a modernized anti missile defense system

John Buell

Climate Change
Over our Heads: Climate Crisis Produces Stationary Catastrophic Weather Systems

Over our Heads: Climate Crisis Produces Stationary Catastrophic Weather Systems

If tropical cyclones are moving more slowly, this can leave particular regions bearing the brunt of the rainfall

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Anchor on IDF Troops sent to Occupied Palestine: ‘We get back Animals’

Israeli Anchor on IDF Troops sent to Occupied Palestine: ‘We get back Animals’

The New Right Party will call on Attorney General Mandelblit to investigate Kotler’s comments for libel.

Maan News Agency

Kurds
Leftist Syrian Kurds who defeated ISIL Plead with Europe not to Abandon them as Trump Did

Leftist Syrian Kurds who defeated ISIL Plead with Europe not to Abandon them as Trump Did

European powers have already rebuffed US proposals for an observer force that would stay on in northeast Syria

AFP

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