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Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of geopolitics, incites warfare between Egypt and Ethiopia

Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of geopolitics, incites warfare between Egypt and Ethiopia

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of geopolitics, has shot his big mouth off again and incited warfare between Egypt and Ethiopia. Trump said, according to the BBC, that Egypt cannot accept the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that is being built on the Blue Nile, which the government of Abdel Fattah […]

Democracy
Sudan's Revolutionaries insist Israel Deal must be ratified by Future Parliament, as Trump's Strong-Arm Tactics threaten its Democracy

Sudan’s Revolutionaries insist Israel Deal must be ratified by Future Parliament, as Trump’s Strong-Arm Tactics threaten its Democracy

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on speaker phone in which he breathlessly announced that Sudan had agreed to normalize relations with Israel, following on Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates earlier this year. Egypt and Jordan had signed peace […]

Climate Crisis
Big Oil's Funeral:  Pure Electric Car Purchases in Germany skyrocket 260%

Big Oil’s Funeral: Pure Electric Car Purchases in Germany skyrocket 260%

Juan Cole

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – A record number of car buyers in Germany have opted for electric vehicles in September. The number of new purely electric vehicles rose to 21,188 last month, an increase of 260 percent compared to a year ago, the country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority KBA […]

Climate Crisis
A clear Choice on Climate: Trump wants to Wreck the Planet; Biden has taken strides toward a Green Vision

A clear Choice on Climate: Trump wants to Wreck the Planet; Biden has taken strides toward a Green Vision

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump doesn’t get climate change or the ways to combat it. He is a greedy, venal person, and I presume he is encouraged in his obscurantism by some sort of business interest in the oil and gas industry, or backing by them with campaign dollars. Or perhaps he just, by […]

Donald Trump
Trumpie Wingnut DNI Ratcliffe hilariously blames Iran for pro-Trump Email Spoofs

Trumpie Wingnut DNI Ratcliffe hilariously blames Iran for pro-Trump Email Spoofs

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I don’t know what it is about being in official Washington that degrades basic critical faculties. Like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, they start saying, “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” The US Establishment believed that Iraq in 2002 was near to […]

Donald Trump
Is it an accident that Iran and the US, two Theocracies, are Coronavirus Basket Cases?

Is it an accident that Iran and the US, two Theocracies, are Coronavirus Basket Cases?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The coronavirus statistics in both Iran and the United States are horrible. The US has the worst record on dealing with the pandemic in the industrialized world. One clue to why the two countries are doing so badly with regard to basic public health strategy may lie in the importance […]

Democracy
Did Trump blackmail Sudan into Recognizing Israel by offering to remove Khartoum from Terror List?

Did Trump blackmail Sudan into Recognizing Israel by offering to remove Khartoum from Terror List?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok announced Monday that the US had agreed to remove his country from the list of international supporters of terrorism, paving the way for Sudan to rejoin the international community and attract desperately needed international investment. Sudan’s revolutionary government has moved to ensure human and civil […]

China
China grows nearly 5%; Will historians look back at Trump's disastrous Pandemic Response as the Moment Beijing Overtook the US?

China grows nearly 5%; Will historians look back at Trump’s disastrous Pandemic Response as the Moment Beijing Overtook the US?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even if Trump loses, he can go on screwing up the country for two and a half months thereafter, and it will take years to undo the damage he has done. Pandemics are the sort of thing you want to nip in the bud. If you let them go to […]

Donald Trump
Dear Sen. Perdue:  Kamala is the name of Great Americans

Dear Sen. Perdue: Kamala is the name of Great Americans

Juan Cole

Senator David Perdue, at a rally in Macon, Ga., for Donald Trump, made fun of Kamala Harris’s name. He pretended not to know which syllable the stress was on, saying “Kamala, or Kamala, Kamala-mala-mala, I don’t know.” Perdue has a history of bigotry. His campaign ran an ad on Facebook against rival Jon Ossof, who […]

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