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Archives for May 2006

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Maliki Calls For Most Coalition Troops

Maliki Calls For Most Coalition Troops

Juan Cole

Maliki Calls for Most Coalition Troops out by End of Year Well, there are two versions of Iraq’s future. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki suprised visiting UK PM Tony Blair with an announcement: “Mr Maliki said British troops would hand over responsibility in two provinces to Iraqi security forces by next month and that he expected […]

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Black Psy Ops Campaign Against Iran

Black Psy Ops Campaign Against Iran

Juan Cole

The Black Psy-Ops Campaign against Iran The Iranian regime is despicable in its lack of respect for basic human rights and in its regimentation of its citizens into a rigid theocracy. But it is no more of a threat to the United States than Burma or the Congo, both of which are just as oppressive. […]

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Responses To Critics Open Thread I

Responses To Critics Open Thread I

Juan Cole

Responses to Critics: Open Thread I don’t want to give the impression that I am unduly interested in the cottage industry that has grown up on the US Right of, let us say, severely critiquing my work. It comes with the territory that if you become a public figure, you get attacked. In fact, even […]

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Davinci Code As Parable Of American

Davinci Code As Parable Of American

Juan Cole

DaVinci Code as Parable of American Modernity Despite the scowls and titters of the critics, the DaVinci Code did $77 million at the box office in the US, better than Tom Cruise pulled in MI3. And the world-wide gross is already $224 million. What in the world accounts for the popularity of this complicated and […]

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50 Dead Maliki Vows To End Militias

50 Dead Maliki Vows To End Militias

Juan Cole

50 Dead Maliki Vows to End Militias, Graft The civil war in Iraq killed 50 persons on Sunday, according to al-Zaman. Reuters managed to detail the circumstances of 35 of them, including bombings in Baghdad. Al-Sharq al-Awsat says [Ar.] that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called militias “an abnormal phenomenon” and vowed to end it. He […]

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Wikipedia Article Hijacked I Fear I

Wikipedia Article Hijacked I Fear I

Juan Cole

Wikipedia Article Hijacked I fear I have never had the time to get up to full speed with regard to the Wiki world or the procedures of Wikipedia. But I am told by a kind reader that a small group of ideologues has taken over the Wikipedia article on me in a way that is […]

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Canwest And Lobby Kind Reader Alerted

Canwest And Lobby Kind Reader Alerted

Juan Cole

CanWest and the Lobby A kind reader alerted me to this item about the present owners of the National Post that tried to float the black psy-ops operation charging Iran with requiring religious minorities to wear “badges”. This item is from before they owned the National Post, but there is no reason to think their […]

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Libyan Blogger On Us Relations With

Libyan Blogger On Us Relations With

Juan Cole

Libyan Blogger on US Relations with Tripoli A Libyan-American blogger on the US establishment of diplomatic relations with the Qaddafi regime.

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Haaretz On Israeli Settlers How Mean

Haaretz On Israeli Settlers How Mean

Juan Cole

Haaretz on Israeli Settlers: How Mean Can you Be? Israeli settlers in the West Bank have shot Palestinians, stolen their land, stolen their water, chased them out of their homes, put their own orchards off limits, and generally been about as mean as you could be short of an actual concerted war. They have also […]

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