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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025:  The US and the Middle East
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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East

Juan Cole

The big victors in the rise of a Lebanon-Syria-Jordan Sunni Crescent are Turkiye and the Sunni Arab Gulf monarchies

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Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up

Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up

12/28/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

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Bhutto Zardari:  Taliban must be eradicated from Pakistan

Bhutto Zardari: Taliban must be eradicated from Pakistan

(Via The Economist): Bilawal Bhutto on Pakistani politics: Renaissance man (via The Economist) MODELS in skimpy outfits, dancing around a fiery cauldron in a strange […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
McKibben:  Crunch Time for Obama on Keystone XL

McKibben: Crunch Time for Obama on Keystone XL

Bill Moyers interviews environmental activist Bill McKibben on the choice facing President Obama on the Keystone XL pipeline: McKibben argues that stopping the pipeline is […]

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Another non-terrorist non-Muslim Plane Hijacker: The Sochi Plot

Another non-terrorist non-Muslim Plane Hijacker: The Sochi Plot

(By Juan Cole) The Associated Press article on the Ukrainian hijacker who tried to divert a plane to Sochi on Friday is interesting for the […]

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Dissent
NSA's Zero Day Exploits: Paying $800 mn. to Hackers so they Can Spy on You

NSA’s Zero Day Exploits: Paying $800 mn. to Hackers so they Can Spy on You

(By Pratap Chatterjee via Tomdispatch) Imagine that you could wander unseen through a city, sneaking into houses and offices of your choosing at any time, […]

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al-Qaeda
Daily Show: How much of an A*hole do you have to be that Al-Zawahiri won’t Work with You?

Daily Show: How much of an A*hole do you have to be that Al-Zawahiri won’t Work with You?

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show at Comedy Central covers the fruitless Syria negotiations and break between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Boycott of Israeli Universities by American Studies Assn. being Tried in a Kangaroo Court

Boycott of Israeli Universities by American Studies Assn. being Tried in a Kangaroo Court

(By Alan M. Wald) In Memory of Edward Said (1935-2003) “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there […]

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censorship
Turkey's Ruling Party enacts "Orwellian" Web Censorship

Turkey’s Ruling Party enacts “Orwellian” Web Censorship

(Via AFP) Turkey lawmakers adopt ‘Orwellian’ Internet curbs (via AFP) Turkish MPs late Wednesday adopted new Internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
"In the Seam": Israel Strangles Palestinian Town

“In the Seam”: Israel Strangles Palestinian Town

(By Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch) (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military is severely harming livelihoods in a Palestinian village in the West Bank that […]

Juan Cole

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Congress to CIA:  Provide US Drone Victim Count

Congress to CIA: Provide US Drone Victim Count

(By Alice K. Ross) The CIA director and other intelligence chiefs were urged to increase transparency over covert drone operations by members of the House […]

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