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Juan Cole

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On how Everything Sam Harris says about Islam is Wrong: Part 2 on “Unbelievers”

On how Everything Sam Harris says about Islam is Wrong: Part 2 on “Unbelievers”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This is the second installment in a series on Sam Harris’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad book, “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Religion” (Norton, 2005). Part 1 is here. On page 31, Harris says, “It is clear, however, that Muslims hate the West in […]

Donald Trump
Did the Same Saudi Hackers who Trapped Khashoggi Target Amazon's Bezos for Nude Photos?

Did the Same Saudi Hackers who Trapped Khashoggi Target Amazon’s Bezos for Nude Photos?

Juan Cole

It has been alleged that the crown prince targeted expatriate Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in part because he had written critically about Trump

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Syrian Ambassador: Trump should give Israel the Carolinas, instead of Syria's Golan

Syrian Ambassador: Trump should give Israel the Carolinas, instead of Syria’s Golan

Juan Cole

Jaafari said that the United States had completely ended any role for itself as a mediator in the region

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Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return

Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As an unprecedented 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza marched for the right to return, marking the one-year anniversary of the beginning of weekly such marches, Israeli snipers shot into the Gaza Strip, killing 4 youth and wounding at least 207. The Israeli army uses military-grade tear gas on the crowds, and […]

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75% of Scotland's Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032

75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032

Juan Cole

Scotland is also doing groundbreaking research and development on wave and tidal energy

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Why Muslim Survivors of N. Zealand Massacre can Forgive: Islam is about Compassion

Why Muslim Survivors of N. Zealand Massacre can Forgive: Islam is about Compassion

Juan Cole

“Allah says if we forgive one another he loves us.”

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How Trump Just Gave Alabama to Iraq by Giving Syrian Golan to Israel

How Trump Just Gave Alabama to Iraq by Giving Syrian Golan to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration’s illegal and unilateral recognition of Israeli annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights is an unfortunate return to the international jungle of the 1930s and 1940s, when Hitler annexed the Sudetenland and Mussolini annexed Nice from France. Trump’s policy is Nazi law, as so many of his policies […]

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The Ilhan Omar Effect?  50% of Americans now favor a Palestinian State (Gallup)

The Ilhan Omar Effect? 50% of Americans now favor a Palestinian State (Gallup)

Juan Cole

The cruelty of Israeli occupation and Apartheid is also having an impact

Climate Change
Back to the Sweltering Pliocene: World's Production of CO2 Spiked again in 2018

Back to the Sweltering Pliocene: World’s Production of CO2 Spiked again in 2018

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The world– you and I included– actually greatly increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by 2.87 parts per million, raising the total to just about 410 ppm. So reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This was a significant increase, the fourth largest during the past 60 […]

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