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Juan Cole

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9 Easy Propaganda steps to War with Iran

9 Easy Propaganda steps to War with Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration is now in full disinformation mode, using all the classical techniques of propaganda to put the gullible US public on a war footing with Iran. Here is how it is done. 1. Iran warmongers like National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pretend […]

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Top Ten differences between the Iraq War and Trump's Proposed Iran War

Top Ten differences between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War

Juan Cole

1. Iraq is 168,754 mi² and Iran is 636,400 mi²; that is, Iran is geographically 3.77 times bigger than Iraq, almost 4 times as big. 2. Iraq’s population when invaded was 26 million. Iran’s population today is 81 million. 3. General Eric Shinseki testified before Congress prior to Bush’s invasion that based on the US […]

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Rashida Tlaib's Palestinian Theology of Good Samaritanism and Redemption

Rashida Tlaib’s Palestinian Theology of Good Samaritanism and Redemption

Juan Cole

“I don’t come from a place of violence. I come from a place of love, equality and justice.”

Climate Change
It will be Very Hot and very Wet–We’ve exceeded 415ppm of Carbon Dioxide for the first Time since the Pliocene

It will be Very Hot and very Wet–We’ve exceeded 415ppm of Carbon Dioxide for the first Time since the Pliocene

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration measures atmospheric carbon dioxide at its Moana Loa observatory. You can see that on May 11 we were just about at 415 parts per million of CO2. A couple of days this week, we’ve gone over 415. When I say that, you should run […]

Donald Trump
Pace Pompeo: What if the US is "Sowing Chaos" in Mideast & Iran is a Status Quo Power?

Pace Pompeo: What if the US is “Sowing Chaos” in Mideast & Iran is a Status Quo Power?

Juan Cole

The US overthrew the Iraqi Government, Provoked rise of ISIL, backed al-Qaeda allies in Syria, and is one-sided on Israel-Palestine

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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