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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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Not at the Border: The Real Nat'l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids

Not at the Border: The Real Nat’l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids

Since 1999, 400,000 Americans have died from overdoses of opioids, including legally prescribed ones

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Israel/ Palestine
UN: Israeli Forces’ Violence Interfering in Palestinian Children’s Safe Access to Education

UN: Israeli Forces’ Violence Interfering in Palestinian Children’s Safe Access to Education

More than half of the verified incidents involved live ammunition, tear gas, and stun grenades fired into or near schools by Israeli Forces

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Saudi Arabia
Top Ten Reasons Saudi Women are Running away from their Country

Top Ten Reasons Saudi Women are Running away from their Country

Rampant Discrimination, Abuse

Human Rights Watch

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Trump Explodes at CIA over Iran: "Naive and Passive," "Go Back to School!"

Trump Explodes at CIA over Iran: “Naive and Passive,” “Go Back to School!”

Coats: “We continue to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities.”

Juan Cole

Yemen
UN: Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 6,700 Children, Left 358,000 Severely Malnourished

UN: Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 6,700 Children, Left 358,000 Severely Malnourished

Child victims require “immediate treatment.”

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Orders School Razed, Halt to Construction of Homes in Hebron, Palestine

Israel Orders School Razed, Halt to Construction of Homes in Hebron, Palestine

Israeli authorities seek to displace Masafer Yatta residents, in order to seize their lands

Maan News Agency

Iran
40 Years on, is Iran a Status Quo Power or a Threat to ME Regional Security?

40 Years on, is Iran a Status Quo Power or a Threat to ME Regional Security?

(Informed Comment) – The US-Iranian relations remain conflictual forty years after the revolution and with an uncertain future. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s […]

Ali Abootalebi

Israel
Gantz Targets Netanyahu in Israeli Election:  'Ridiculous' for Indicted PM to Serve

Gantz Targets Netanyahu in Israeli Election: ‘Ridiculous’ for Indicted PM to Serve

By Laurent Lozano | – Jerusalem (AFP) – A picture taken on January 29, 2019, shows the podium where former Israeli chief of staff Benny […]

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Corruption
Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

The US is so corrupt that our ruling, Republican Party, would even deny human-made climate change and adopt pro-carbon policies

Juan Cole

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