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

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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Israeli Assault killed Half of all Chickens in Gaza, Damaged Agriculture

Israeli Assault killed Half of all Chickens in Gaza, Damaged Agriculture

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Food and Agriculture Organization on Thursday warned that the Israeli assault on Gaza had caused extensive damage to the coastal enclave’s […]

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Climate Change
Is Climate Change Making us Ill?

Is Climate Change Making us Ill?

By DW “More extreme and recurring heat periods and weather events, spreading diseases: Climate change has a huge impact on the life on our planet. […]

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Apartheid
Dutch Lawyer who saved Jewish Boy in WWII returns Medal to Israel over Bombing of his Family in Gaza

Dutch Lawyer who saved Jewish Boy in WWII returns Medal to Israel over Bombing of his Family in Gaza

By Juan Cole Henk Zanoli, a 91-year-old Dutch attorney who in 1943 saved a Jewish boy from the Nazis, has returned to Israel the “Righteous […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt's Cover-Up: Rabia Massacre One Year Later

Egypt’s Cover-Up: Rabia Massacre One Year Later

By Sarah Leah Whitson Published in: Open Democracy “Forget about Morsy, forget about Rab`a,” my Egyptian neighbourhood grocer told me the other day, expressing the […]

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Iraq
Sexual violence as a war strategy in Iraq

Sexual violence as a war strategy in Iraq

By Nazand Begikhani via Your Middle East “These are strategic theories of rape in wartime which have been deliberately practiced by IS jihadists in Syria […]

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Apartheid
Thirsty in Gaza: Israel Destroyed or Damaged 28 Miles of Water Pipes

Thirsty in Gaza: Israel Destroyed or Damaged 28 Miles of Water Pipes

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Water Authority said on Thursday that the water distribution network in Gaza had suffered $34.4 million worth of damage […]

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Bill of Rights
One Nation, under SWAT:  The undemocratic Militarization of the Police

One Nation, under SWAT: The undemocratic Militarization of the Police

By Matthew Harwood via Tomdispatch.com Jason Westcott was afraid. One night last fall, he discovered via Facebook that a friend of a friend was planning […]

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Top 10 Mistakes of former Iraq PM Nouri al-Maliki (That Ruined his Country)

Top 10 Mistakes of former Iraq PM Nouri al-Maliki (That Ruined his Country)

By Juan Cole Now that Nouri al-Maliki has resigned as prime minister, it is worth looking at the way his two terms as prime minister […]

Juan Cole

Israeli official confirms US nixed arms sale; PM blamed for icy ties

Israeli official confirms US nixed arms sale; PM blamed for icy ties

WSJ report of frayed relations between Washington and Jerusalem, including combative Obama-Netanyahu phone call, sparks firestorm among Israeli politicians

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