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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

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

02/18/2026 By Middle East Monitor

The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

02/18/2026 By Tom Engelhardt

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19 Kurds Killed in Ninevah Bombing; US Troops Still Dying in Iraq; Russia Seeks Oil Deals

19 Kurds Killed in Ninevah Bombing; US Troops Still Dying in Iraq; Russia Seeks Oil Deals

A suicide truck bomber detonated his payload in a Kurdish village near Mosul early Thursday morning, killing 19 and wounding 25. The attack followed a […]

Juan Cole

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US Last in Forestalling Preventable Deaths among 19 Industrialized countries

US Last in Forestalling Preventable Deaths among 19 Industrialized countries

Here is the ranking by health researchers of 19 industrialized nations by how well their health systems intervene to stop preventable deaths. The US is […]

Juan Cole

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4 US Troops Killed in Kunar Ambush; Karzai Ahead in Ballots, Amidst Charges of Fraud; Russia Fears Heroin

4 US Troops Killed in Kunar Ambush; Karzai Ahead in Ballots, Amidst Charges of Fraud; Russia Fears Heroin

Jonathan Landay of McClatchy reports as an eye-witness on the guerrilla attack in Kunar Province on an Afghan Army expedition to Ganjgal village that killed […]

Juan Cole

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Krane: American Nuclear Reactors for Dubai, Iran’s Best Friend

Krane: American Nuclear Reactors for Dubai, Iran’s Best Friend

Jim Krane writes in a guest op-ed for IC The contrast is startling. Dubai is Iran’s window through the US embargo, one of its largest […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Party Demonstrates Against Syria as Regional Tensions remain High

Iraqi Party Demonstrates Against Syria as Regional Tensions remain High

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that the Islamic Mission Party [Da’wa] headed by Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki is holding public demonstrations against Syria over its […]

Juan Cole

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Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still looking for a job […]

Juan Cole

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EU Foreign Ministers Condemn NATO; German Opposition Attacks Merkel on Afghanistan; Kunduz Residents Furious at West

EU Foreign Ministers Condemn NATO; German Opposition Attacks Merkel on Afghanistan; Kunduz Residents Furious at West

A Taliban-set roadside bomb hit a German convoy in Kunduz province on Saturday, likely in vengeance for the NATO air strike on hijacked fuel trucks […]

Juan Cole

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Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama’s Dreams from my Father

Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama’s Dreams from my Father

Journalist Besan Sheikh recently visited the Guantanamo Bay prison facility run by the US, where al-Qaeda and other prisoners from Bush’s ‘war on terror’ are […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan Roiled by NATO Air Strikes that killed almost 100

Afghanistan Roiled by NATO Air Strikes that killed almost 100

Earlier this week, Taliban had hijacked NATO fuel trucks. On late Thursday or early Friday, NATO war planes located and struck at the trucks, after […]

Juan Cole

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