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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change
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Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change

Juan Cole

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

02/17/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

02/17/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Climate Marchers join  Alarmed Scientists against "Drill-Baby-Drill" Corporations & Politicians

Climate Marchers join Alarmed Scientists against “Drill-Baby-Drill” Corporations & Politicians

AJ+ interviews Naomi Klein “As people gather in New York City for what organizers are billing as the largest climate-change protest in history, AJ+ asks […]

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Arab Spring
The Arab Political Crisis:  It isn’t a Matter of Civilization and it isn’t Unique

The Arab Political Crisis: It isn’t a Matter of Civilization and it isn’t Unique

By Juan Cole Hisham Melhem has a piece on what he calls the collapse of Arab civilization. The piece is riddled with contradictions and fuzzy […]

Juan Cole

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Dubai to Build the World's Largest Airport

Dubai to Build the World’s Largest Airport

TheLipTV “Dubai is planning to build the world’s largest airport as part of a $32B expansion. The project is expected to be long and expensive, […]

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Apartheid
Israeli forces begin home demolitions in Bedouin village near Jerusalem

Israeli forces begin home demolitions in Bedouin village near Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided a number of Bedouin communities east of Jerusalem on Thursday days after handing them demolition and evacuation orders, a […]

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Kerry sees role for Iran in ISIS war, France joins air campaign

Kerry sees role for Iran in ISIS war, France joins air campaign

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that Iran had a role to play in a global coalition to tackle ISIS militants, as France […]

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 'We're on edge of large war in MidEast' - Daniel Ellsberg

‘We’re on edge of large war in MidEast’ – Daniel Ellsberg

RT: “With Washington wading into another war in the Middle East, one iconic US whistleblower says Americans are being kept in the dark about the […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Changing US-Iran Relations:  Kerry:  Iran has a Role in Defeating ISIL Militants

Changing US-Iran Relations: Kerry: Iran has a Role in Defeating ISIL Militants

by Juan Cole Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Iran has a role to play in defeating ISIL. Addressing a meeting of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
 The Saddest Story In Mosul: Love In The Time Of The Caliphate

The Saddest Story In Mosul: Love In The Time Of The Caliphate

By Nawzat Shamdeen | Berlin | via Niqash.org All Mosul women must now wear either black or white niqab. A young Mosul man tells NIQASH […]

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Iraq
How does this End?  35 Military Interventions since 1980 and Terrorism Grows

How does this End? 35 Military Interventions since 1980 and Terrorism Grows

Brave New Films: “Since 1980, we have militarily intervened at least 35 times in more than 27 countries. We keep bombing, we continue spending trillions […]

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