Juan Cole

3,000 Demonstrate in Tikrit for Saddam Return Muqtada: US DoD has File on Shiite Messiah The Associated Press reports Friday’s major events in Iraq: ‘ In the city of Tikrit north of Baghdad, 3,000 persons came out on Friday to demonstrate for the return of Saddam Hussein to power. Tikrit is his birthplace. ‘ In […]

Nasrullah’s Divine Victory Hasan Nasrullah gave his “Divine Victory” speech on Friday to thousands of followers in South Beirut, which was heavily bombed by Israel during the Lebanon War. The Daily Star reports that he said: ‘ “There is no army in the world capable of making us drop our weapons as long as there […]

Bombing Pakistan back to the Stone Age A controversy has broken out over US threats against Pakistan in the wake of September 11, 2001. Pakistani opposition politicians are taking advantage of it to attack Gen. Musharraf for having folded in the face of US threats. In fact, Musharraf met with all the major political figures […]

70 Killed, including 3 GIs; Return of Republic of Fear Reuters reports 77 killed in Iraq’s civil war on Thursday. That total includes 38 bodies found in the streets of Baghdad. Also included are 3 GIs k.i.a. Al-Hayat reports that in Najaf on Weds.-Thurs. night, 4 members of the Sadr Movement loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr […]

Democracy Now Look for me on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now Show on Monday, however and whenever you get it.

Over 6,000 Killed in July-August; 75% Sunnis Support Insurgency; 50 Killed on Weds. including 2 GIs Two US soldiers were announced killed on Wednesday, as the US military admitted that attacks against US personnel have risen during the past month. Typically about 70 percent of the roadside bombings in Iraq are aimed at US troops. […]

Chavez and the Devil: Bush’s Use of ‘Evil’ Comes Home to Roost ‘Railing and praising were his usual themes,And both, to show his judgment, in extremes;So over-violent, or over-civil,That every man with him was god or devil’ – John Dryden Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez referred to US President George W. Bush as “the devil” in […]

4 GIs Killed; at least 64 Iraqis Killed Massive Bomb Near Mosul Ed Wong of the New York Times reports on increasing American and Iraqi dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, given that he has not reversed the slide into worse and worse security. We historians don’t approve of great man theories of history, and […]

Bush v. Ahmadinejad Egypt’s Jamal Mubarak Rejects “New Middle East” Announces Nuclear Quest The speeches given at the UN by US President George W. Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were mirror images of one another. Bush accused Iran of seeking nuclear weapons and of supporting terrorism. Ahmadinejad said that his own country’s nuclear research […]