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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?

12/28/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Muslim Brotherhood and Liberals Confront Military Rule in Egypt

Muslim Brotherhood and Liberals Confront Military Rule in Egypt

Al-Ahram reports in Arabic that hundreds of thousands of Egyptians all around the country protested on Friday against the military remaining in power. The Muslim […]

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OWS under Pressure:  Banks Bailed out, People Sold Out

OWS under Pressure: Banks Bailed out, People Sold Out

The Occupy Wall Street held a series of rallies around the country on Thursday, in response to the attempt of Mayor Michael Bloomberg to remove […]

Juan Cole

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Serri:  Iran’s UN Inspectors are Repeating the Iraq Mistakes

Serri: Iran’s UN Inspectors are Repeating the Iraq Mistakes

Hamid Serri of Florida International University writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency under Yukiya Amano is adopting […]

Juan Cole

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Movie-Made Me

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Movie-Made Me

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Gingrich Called for Jail for Politicians with Freddie Mac Ties

Gingrich Called for Jail for Politicians with Freddie Mac Ties

Disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff on Wednesday accused Newt Gingrich of “corruption” for taking roughly $1.6 million from private/public mortgage company Freddie Mac. When pressed, […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Arab League Suspends Syria as Israeli Warns of "Islamic Empire"

Arab League Suspends Syria as Israeli Warns of “Islamic Empire”

The Arab League suspended Syria on Wednesday at its meeting in Rabat, Morocco, and gave the Baath government three days to cease shooting protesters or […]

Juan Cole

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Police Crackdowns on OWS Coordinated among Mayors, FBI, DHS

Police Crackdowns on OWS Coordinated among Mayors, FBI, DHS

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan let slip in an interview with the BBC that she had been on a conference call with the mayors of 18 […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
McCain Plays Politics with Obama's Iraq Withdrawal

McCain Plays Politics with Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) played shameless politics during a hearing on Tuesday on the US withdrawal from Iraq. McCain more or less called Secretary of […]

Juan Cole

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Puncturing the Pipeline

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Puncturing the Pipeline

Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs…

Juan Cole

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