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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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Foreign Occupation Has Produced

Foreign Occupation Has Produced

Foreign Occupation has Produced Radical Muslim Terrorism Fareed Zakariya argues that Bush got one thing right. Zakariya writes: ” Bush never accepted the view that […]

Juan Cole

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12 Killed 26 Wounded At Baquba Roundup

12 Killed 26 Wounded At Baquba Roundup

12 Killed, 26 Wounded at Baquba Roundup: Looting, Kidnapping, and Shortage of Recruits The Iraqi parliament will meet March 16, whether or not it can […]

Juan Cole

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Us Intervention In 1957 Lebanese

Us Intervention In 1957 Lebanese

US Intervention in 1957 Lebanese Elections A reader writes by email concerning the question of whether the United States engineered the parliamentary elections of 1957 […]

Juan Cole

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Asad Pledges 2 Stage Withdrawal

Asad Pledges 2 Stage Withdrawal

Asad Pledges 2-Stage Withdrawal President Bashar al-Asad of Syria gave a major policy speech [Arabic link] to the Syrian parliament on Saturday on Lebanon. He […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdish Shiite Negotiations Grand_06

Kurdish-Shiite Negotiations Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani put pressure Saturday on the United Iraqi Alliance to maintain its unity and to speed up the formation of […]

Juan Cole

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Samarra Turmoil Afp Reports That Iraqi

Samarra Turmoil Afp Reports That Iraqi

Samarra Turmoil AFP reports that Iraqi police in Samarra announced a daytime curfew aimed at preventing the holding of mass demonstrations called for by the […]

Juan Cole

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Constitutional Issues Professor Nathan

Constitutional Issues Professor Nathan

Constitutional Issues Professor Nathan Brown has written an overview of constitutional issues (link is pdf). Andrew Arato writes by email: This is the more or […]

Juan Cole

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Public Support For Iraq War Collapsing

Public Support For Iraq War Collapsing

Public Support for Iraq War CollapsingMajority of Americans want to Bring Some Troops Home Zogby international found that in late February the percentage of Americans […]

Juan Cole

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Us Wounds Italian Hostage Kills

Us Wounds Italian Hostage Kills

US Wounds Italian Hostage, Kills Intelligence Man Guerrillas Kill 4 Marines The US military on Friday fired on the car carrying a just-released Italian journalist […]

Juan Cole

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