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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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Labor Strikes, once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy

Labor Strikes, once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy

The teachers strikes have been focused on demands that have a major impact on the quality of classroom instruction

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Trump Hawks don't Care about Democracy, they Want a Brutal Coup for Venezuelan Oil

Trump Hawks don’t Care about Democracy, they Want a Brutal Coup for Venezuelan Oil

This fall, the same Pompeo shared a photo of himself beaming and shaking hands with the murderous Saudi Arabian crown prince

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Palestinians Fear Caravan of Illegal Immigration – of Israeli Squatters to Palestine

Palestinians Fear Caravan of Illegal Immigration – of Israeli Squatters to Palestine

Jerusalem Court ruled that if Israeli settlers built a settlement on private Palestinian land with “good intentions,” it should not be removed

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Trump Can’t escape having called Nazis “Very Fine People” by SOTU Spectacle

So this is the story of how Donald Trump tried to use misdirection at his State of the Union address to take the spotlight off […]

Juan Cole

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US must probe if Saudis gave US Weapons to al-Qaeda in Yemen: General

US must probe if Saudis gave US Weapons to al-Qaeda in Yemen: General

Saudi-led coalition has allegedly transferred American-made weapons and military vehicles to Qaeda-linked fighters, hardline Salafi militias

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
"Gaza" Documentary on "largest open air prison" wins 33rd Goya Award

“Gaza” Documentary on “largest open air prison” wins 33rd Goya Award

McConnell, a photojournalist, first visited Gaza in 2010 and in 2012 he teamed up with documentary filmmaker, Keane, for the film.

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump
America's Endless Wars on Autopilot in our Endless Trumpworld

America’s Endless Wars on Autopilot in our Endless Trumpworld

Still, I find myself wondering: If a proposed troop drawdown in Afghanistan qualifies as a “mistake”

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Israel/ Palestine
On Empathy and other Liberal Zionist Canards

On Empathy and other Liberal Zionist Canards

By Yoav Litvin | – (Aljazeera) – The “peace process” between Israeli and Palestinian representatives is long dead, yet the funeral still has not been […]

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Baghdad: Calls to Expel US Troops from Iraq after Trump said They spy on Iran

Baghdad: Calls to Expel US Troops from Iraq after Trump said They spy on Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s assertion that he intends to keep US troops in Iraq to spy on Iran has produced a firestorm of […]

Juan Cole

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