Juan Cole

Since Bush was elevated by the Supreme Court in 2000, we’ve heard Fox Cable News (a failed conspiracy of media billionaire Rupert Murdoch to move the US public to the far right) refer to George W. Bush ad infinitum as ‘commander-in-chief.’ In fact, Bush was just the president; the Constitution did not envisage that there […]

The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American forces stopped them from doing so. It says that a forthcoming French documentary containing interviews with the French soldiers provides proof for the […]

The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American forces stopped them from doing so. It says that a forthcoming French documentary containing interviews with the French soldiers provides proof for the […]

The reviews of director Marc Forster’s “Quantum of Solace” have complained about the film’s hectic pace (reminiscent of Doug Liman’s and Paul Greengrass’s Bourne thrillers), about the humorlessness of Daniel Craig’s Bond, and even about the squalid surroundings, so unlike Monaco and Prague, in which the film is set (with many scenes in Haiti and […]

The reviews of director Marc Forster’s “Quantum of Solace” have complained about the film’s hectic pace (reminiscent of Doug Liman’s and Paul Greengrass’s Bourne thrillers), about the humorlessness of Daniel Craig’s Bond, and even about the squalid surroundings, so unlike Monaco and Prague, in which the film is set (with many scenes in Haiti and […]

President-Elect Obama addresses the nation on the economic crisis The thing that worries me most is that Bush is still making policy. It should be remembered that the banks failed and produced a ruinous run on them very late in Hoover’s term, leaving FDR to announce the bank holiday as soon as he got in. […]

President-Elect Obama addresses the nation on the economic crisis The thing that worries me most is that Bush is still making policy. It should be remembered that the banks failed and produced a ruinous run on them very late in Hoover’s term, leaving FDR to announce the bank holiday as soon as he got in. […]

Maybe this is the reason the Bush administration illegally spied on Elliot Spitzer’s bank transfers despite lack of any evidence he was doing anything wrong?

Prospective White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Rose Oakar, the executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to apologize for remarks of his father, Benjamin Emanuel. The elder Emanuel had replied to Maariv when asked whether his son would influence Obama to be pro-Israel, ““Obviously he’ll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why […]