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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

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

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

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

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What Sunni Arab Vote Really Means

What the Sunni Arab Vote Really Means According to wire services, Sunnis in Fallujah came out to vote: ‘ not only get rid of the […]

Juan Cole

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High Turnout Expected As Iraqis Go To

High Turnout Expected As Iraqis Go To

High Turnout Expected as Iraqis go to Polls The guerrillas got off some mortars as voting began Thursday in Iraq, one striking the Green Zone […]

Juan Cole

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Helman On Rice And New Truman Doctrine

Helman On Rice And New Truman Doctrine

Helman on Rice and the New Truman Doctrine Ambassador Gerald B. Helman writes: ” In an op-ed piece published in the December 11 Washington Post, […]

Juan Cole

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Thousands Of Shiites Demonstrate

Thousands Of Shiites Demonstrate

Thousands of Shiites Demonstrate against Aljazeera; Four US troops were killed and a Sunni politician (Mizhar Dulaimi of Ramadi) was assassinated on Tuesday in the […]

Juan Cole

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Street Battles Bombings In Baghdad

Street Battles Bombings In Baghdad

Street Battles, Bombings in Baghdad; Less Wealthy Candidates Cannot Campaign Baghdad was wracked with violence on Monday, witnessing a major carbombing at a police station, […]

Juan Cole

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Abctime Poll On Iraq Full Tabulation

Abctime Poll On Iraq Full Tabulation

ABC/Time Poll on Iraq The full tabulation of the new ABC News/Time, et al., poll on Iraq is in pdf format on the web. Although […]

Juan Cole

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Kashmir Crisis Enters Critical Phase

Kashmir Crisis Enters Critical Phase

Kashmir Crisis Enters Critical Phase The news from Kashmir, where 80,000 survivors of the earthquake now face severe winter weather and problems of food and […]

Juan Cole

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Anti Muslim Race Riots In Australia

Anti Muslim Race Riots In Australia

Anti-Muslim Race Riots in Australia The government of John Howard has belatedly called for religious tolerance in Australia after a race riot broke out there, […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Counsels Shiites Against

Sistani Counsels Shiites Against

Sistani Counsels Shiites Against Wasted Votes Sunni Arabs Plead for Talks Knight Ridder reports on dirty campaign tricks and over-heated rhetoric in the Iraq political […]

Juan Cole

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