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Juan Cole

Qur'an
Love, Peace, Forgiveness and Light dominate the Qur’an

Love, Peace, Forgiveness and Light dominate the Qur’an

Juan Cole

339 – Times words from the root for mercy and compassion (rhm) occur

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US hits milestone of 2 Million Home Solar Installations, to double by 2023

US hits milestone of 2 Million Home Solar Installations, to double by 2023

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) just released a report showing that there are 2 million solar home installations in the United States. That is enough to power 12 million homes. (There are 127 million households in the US, and about 64% of Americans […]

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Trump, hostage to Bolton and Pompeo, Pleads with Iran to call and Rescue Him

Trump, hostage to Bolton and Pompeo, Pleads with Iran to call and Rescue Him

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian reports that Trump gave an impromptu news conference on Thursday in which he urged Iran to call him, as though he was being held hostage by John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and was signalling that Iran should rescue him. I happened to see the bizarre […]

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Thousands of Innocent Palestinians in Gaza at Risk of amputation from Israeli Sniping

Thousands of Innocent Palestinians in Gaza at Risk of amputation from Israeli Sniping

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thousands of innocent Gaza Palestinian protesters wounded by live fire by Israeli snipers are in danger of losing limbs if the decrepit Gaza hospital system does not receive $20 million, according to Jamie McGoldrick, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory. Since the Great March of Return protests […]

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Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran;  Iraq declines

Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran; Iraq declines

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US secretary of state Mike Pompeo made a surprise four-hour visit to Baghdad on Tuesday in connection to the panic he is trying to trump up, along with US national security adviser and Sheldon Adelson plant John Bolton about Iran supposedly planning to attack US troops in the Middle East. […]

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Gaza Palestinians and Israelis Wounded Past Year by the Numbers: 31,691 v. 250

Gaza Palestinians and Israelis Wounded Past Year by the Numbers: 31,691 v. 250

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The reporting on the fighting between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israelis the past few days, as usual, has mostly lacked context and proportionality. Number of Gaza Palestinians killed by Israeli snipers in past year: 304 Number of Gaza Palestinians injured by Israeli snipers in past year: 31,691 Number […]

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Warmongers Bolton & Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation

Warmongers Bolton & Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Uber warmongerers John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, somehow the National Security Adviser and Secretary of State of the United States, respectively, have sent an aircraft carrier battle group toward the Gulf in the vicinity of Iran, in hopes of provoking a military confrontation with that country. Iran does not have […]

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Conspiracy-Theorist-in-Chief Trump Tweetstorms the Far Right after Facebook Deplatformed Them

Conspiracy-Theorist-in-Chief Trump Tweetstorms the Far Right after Facebook Deplatformed Them

Juan Cole

Despite sharp rise in white nationalist violence toward minorities

Climate Change
Tipping Point:  For 1st Time in US History, Renewables made more Electricity than Coal in April

Tipping Point: For 1st Time in US History, Renewables made more Electricity than Coal in April

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Avery Thompson Popular Mechanics reports that in the month of April for the first time in US history, the country produced more electricity with renewables than with coal. Part of the solution to this puzzle is economic. In much of the US, Thompson notes, you could actually make more money […]

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