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Archives for December 2010

Afghanistan

Obama’s 2010 Successes and Failures in the Middle East – Cole in Truthdig

Juan Cole

My new column at Truthdig.com is just out: “Obama’s 2010 Successes and Failures in the Middle East”. Excerpt: ‘ As 2010 dawned, President Barack Obama had four big issues on his plate regarding the Middle East. These were Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Iran, and Afghanistan. The year has been as unkind to him on those issues as […]

Islamophobia
Hating Muslims in America

Hating Muslims in America

Juan Cole

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the incoming chair of the House committee on Homeland Security has announced that he will hold hearings into the ‘radicalization’ of American Muslims. This, despite the fact that the Muslim Americans are pillars of the US community–disproportionately well-educated and well integrated into the country, and even though a third of tips […]

Iraq

Iraq’s al-Maliki Rebuffed on Incomplete Cabinet

Juan Cole

Al-Hayat writes in Arabic that prospective Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki faced severe opposition on Monday to his insistence on announcing the formation of a government without naming all the cabinet members. Among the parties opposed to this step was the Iraqiya, the Kurdistan Alliance, and the Sadr Movement. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court issued a ruling […]

Israel/ Palestine
HRW on Israeli Racial Discrimination in West Bank

HRW on Israeli Racial Discrimination in West Bank

Juan Cole

Human Rights Watch has issued a new report on racial discrimination against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. HRW writes: ‘Israel operates a two-tier system for the two populations of the West Bank in the large areas where it exercises exclusive control. The report is based on case studies comparing Israel’s starkly different treatment of […]

Afghanistan
Taliban Strike Qunduz, Kabul, Kill 16

Taliban Strike Qunduz, Kabul, Kill 16

Juan Cole

Taliban or other radicals showed Sunday that they could strike far from their strongholds in the south and east of Afghanistan. They hit the capital, Kabul, as well as the northern province of Qunduz. The radicals derive from the Pashtun ethnic group, which is a minority in both places. On Sunday morning in Afghanistan, two […]

Uncategorized

Senate Repeal of DADT in Global Context

Juan Cole

Conservative religious fanatics lost on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and anti-gay discrimination. The scary thing is, that since it is clear that fear-mongering on gays will no longer win elections in the next generation, the turn to hate-mongering against Muslims may accelerate. So the Senate has repealed ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ the compromise policy on […]

Pakistan

Lawsuit over Drones in Pakistan forces CIA Station Chief to Flee

Juan Cole

The Guardian reports that a lawsuit brought by a Pakistani journalist over wrongful deaths in drone strikes has forced the CIA station chief in Islamabad to flee the country. The official’s identity was discovered by the journalist, Karim Khan of North Waziristan from other journalists or possibly from disgruntled elements in the Pakistani military. It […]

Iraq
Iraq Arrests Dozens in Terror Sweep, Offers Help to Iran

Iraq Arrests Dozens in Terror Sweep, Offers Help to Iran

Juan Cole

Iraqi authorities are going for the trifecta. They are finally forming a new government, nine months after the March parliamentary elections, to be headed by incumbent Nuri al-Maliki at the head of a Shiite-Kurdish coalition. They have finally gotten UN sanctions on Iraq, implemented after the 1990 occupation of Kuwait, lifted. And they are increasingly […]

Uncategorized
Stewart: Aljazeera Pays More Attention to First Responders than Senate Republicans, US Networks

Stewart: Aljazeera Pays More Attention to First Responders than Senate Republicans, US Networks

Juan Cole

The Republican Party has since September 11, 2001, been absolutely insufferable in invoking those attacks at every possible moment for every possible reason, and in trying to portray themselves as better than other people precisely because they demagogue this issue so much. So what a surprise that the Republicans in the Senate, who after all […]

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