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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

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

US, Iranian Officials Set For New Negotiations Aimed At Preventing War

02/17/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

02/17/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Wave Of Bombings In Middle East

Wave Of Bombings In Middle East

Wave of Bombings in Middle East (Revised). The continued instability in the Middle East yielded on Saturday a harvest of deadly bombings in the region. […]

Juan Cole

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Jaafari Iraq Headed Toward Religious

Jaafari Iraq Headed Toward Religious

Jaafari: Iraq headed toward Religious Law On the second anniversary of the launching of the Iraq War, crowds demonstrated throughout the world. Among the larger […]

Juan Cole

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Two Car Bombings Of Us Troops Iraqi

Two Car Bombings Of Us Troops Iraqi

Two Car Bombings of US Troops Iraqi Politics Still Unsettled Wire service report that ‘ Insurgents attacked US troops with two suicide car bombs in […]

Juan Cole

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Wolfowitzs Plot To Destroy Opec And_18

Wolfowitzs Plot To Destroy Opec And_18

Wolfowitz’s Plot to Destroy OPEC And Why it was always Ridiculous Joe Conason presents some excellent reasons why Paul Wolfowitz should not head the World […]

Juan Cole

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Poll Shows Bush Popularity On Iraq

Poll Shows Bush Popularity On Iraq

Poll Shows Bush Popularity on Iraq Plummeting A new ABC/Washington Post poll shows the number of Americans who approve of Bush’s handling of Iraq way […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Parliament Meets To Sound Of

Iraqi Parliament Meets To Sound Of

Iraqi Parliament Meets to Sound of Bombs Al-Zaman: Guerrillas detonated a car bomb near a US facility in southern Baghdad on Tuesday, but only managed […]

Juan Cole

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Democracy By George My Essay Democracy

Democracy By George My Essay Democracy

Democracy by George? My essay, “Democracy — by George? President Bush and his supporters are taking credit for spreading freedom across the Middle East. Here’s […]

Juan Cole

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Women Bloggers And Other Quiet People

Women Bloggers And Other Quiet People

Women bloggers (and other quiet people) Jeanne at Body and Soul has some thoughtful and right-on observations on the Levy/ Jarvis debate I discussed below, […]

Juan Cole

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Blogging Phenomenon Steven Levy At

Blogging Phenomenon Steven Levy At

The Blogging Phenomenon Steven Levy at Newsweek asks why blogging is dominated by white males, and what the implications of this configuration are if blogging […]

Juan Cole

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