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Trump’s Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America’s New Protection Racket
Donald Trump

Trump’s Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America’s New Protection Racket

Scott Corey

Among authoritarians, economics exists for the sake of political extraction, and private wealth is only permitted on condition of complicity

Israel’s assaults on Palestinian Universities and targeting the Academic Sector

Israel’s assaults on Palestinian Universities and targeting the Academic Sector

01/15/2026 By Middle East Studies Association

Beyond Boiling Point: Historic Iranian Protests Continue Despite Blackouts, Repression

Beyond Boiling Point: Historic Iranian Protests Continue Despite Blackouts, Repression

01/15/2026 By Truthdig

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10 Troops Killed In Afghanistan Crash

10 Troops Killed in Afghanistan Crash An American helicopter crashed on Saturday in Afghanistan, killing 10.

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Guerrillas Kill 3 Gis 15 Iraqis Dead

Guerrillas Kill 3 Gis 15 Iraqis Dead

Guerrillas Kill 3 GIs 15 Iraqis Dead in Violence Muqtada Emerging as Kingmaker Guerrillas killed 3 GIs in Babil province south of Baghdad on Friday. […]

Juan Cole

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Hekmatyar Goes Al Qaeda Kabul Bomb

Hekmatyar Goes Al Qaeda Kabul Bomb

Hekmatyar goes Al-Qaeda Kabul Bomb Kills Italians Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the radical Islamist guerrilla fighter, has pledged his allegiance to Usamah Bin Laden. Back in the […]

Juan Cole

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Hitchens Affair Little Satire On

Hitchens Affair Little Satire On

Hitchens Affair A little satire on the Hitchens affair. and . . . Sadly no!

Juan Cole

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Coleweisberg Correspondence On

Cole/Weisberg Correspondence on Hitchens With Mr. Weisberg’s permission, I am posting our correspondence on the Hitchens hatchet job on me in Slate earlier this week. […]

Juan Cole

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28 Dead Over 50 Wounded In Bombings

28 Dead Over 50 Wounded In Bombings

28 Dead, over 50 Wounded in Bombings, Assassinations Shiites Keep Interior? At least 28 persons were killed in the Iraqi civil war on Thursday. Another […]

Juan Cole

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Rumsfeld It Depends On What Meaning Of

Rumsfeld It Depends On What Meaning Of

Rumsfeld: It Depends on what the Meaning of “Where” Is Back in the Sixties it would be some activist college student who confronted the Secretary […]

Juan Cole

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Hitchens No Journalist Insider Person

Hitchens No Journalist Insider Person

Hitchens “No Journalist”: Insider A person of long and wide experience with journalism and politics writes an interesting analysis of the Hitchens affair: ‘Hitchens has […]

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Dalila Case In Syria This Is Letter I

Dalila Case In Syria This Is Letter I

Dalila Case in Syria This is a letter I signed recently on behalf of the Committee for Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North […]

Juan Cole

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