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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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Top 5 Reasons Trump should not get the Nobel Peace Prize

Top 5 Reasons Trump should not get the Nobel Peace Prize

Trump has likely just kicked off a nuclear arms race with Russia

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Has the Coming Sino-American Conflict Already Begun?

Has the Coming Sino-American Conflict Already Begun?

In the Western Pacific, the U.S. has stepped up its naval patrols and forged new basing arrangements

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Israel/ Palestine
Yes, Ilhan, there is an Israel Lobby - Despite the Phony Controversy

Yes, Ilhan, there is an Israel Lobby – Despite the Phony Controversy

In a country that has elected a born-rich, incompetent, petulant child as its president nothing should really surprise us any longer, but the absurdities of […]

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Holocaust
Outreach of Israel’s Netanyahu to Polish Right Roiled by Holocaust Assertion

Outreach of Israel’s Netanyahu to Polish Right Roiled by Holocaust Assertion

A Polish law made it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in Nazi German crimes

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Yemen
Despite House Resolution, US Military Still Helping Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen

Despite House Resolution, US Military Still Helping Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen

Should the Senate pass the resolution on Yemen, it could force Trump to issue the first veto of his tenure.

AFP

Donald Trump
Leader of Free World Angela Merkel Rips Bark off Trump for humiliating German Auto Industry

Leader of Free World Angela Merkel Rips Bark off Trump for humiliating German Auto Industry

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a major speech on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed anxiety that the world’s […]

Juan Cole

nationalism
The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion

The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion

The wall addresses a core psychological insecurity. Trump supporters — and many others — feel as if their own privileges are evaporating.

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Capitalism vs. Socialism Is a False Choice:  We need true democracy  to Avoid self-extinction.

Capitalism vs. Socialism Is a False Choice: We need true democracy to Avoid self-extinction.

( Yes! Magazine) – Economic power is—and always has been—the foundation of political power. Those who control the peoples’ means of living rule. In a […]

David Korten

Iran
40 Years after the Iranian Revolution, Can the Opposition Still Hope for Change?

40 Years after the Iranian Revolution, Can the Opposition Still Hope for Change?

All opposition groups overuse the abstract notion of “secular democracy” without clearly explaining what exactly they have in mind

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