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Juan Cole

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"Why Should we believe anything You Say?" How Ilhan Omar Nailed Elliot Abrams for Iran-Contra Lies

“Why Should we believe anything You Say?” How Ilhan Omar Nailed Elliot Abrams for Iran-Contra Lies

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ilhan Omar (D-MN) grilled Elliot Abrams yesterday, holding his feet to the fire about his having lied to Congress (to two counts of which which he pleaded guilty) and about his support for far right wing forces in Central America responsible for massacres (forces Abrams characterizes as “democratic,” confusing oppressive […]

Climate Crisis
The Age of Environmental Breakdown:  We need the Green New Deal Now!

The Age of Environmental Breakdown: We need the Green New Deal Now!

Juan Cole

The emergency is the “extent, severity, pace and closing window of opportunity to avoid potentially catastrophic outcomes”

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Iran: 'If US attacks us, Tel Aviv is Toast;' Israel: 'You do that and Iran is Toast'

Iran: ‘If US attacks us, Tel Aviv is Toast;’ Israel: ‘You do that and Iran is Toast’

Juan Cole

Both of these politicians are behaving like five year olds

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Senate guts 1st Amendment to Guard Israel from Boycott, but Ilhan Omar can't Bring up AIPAC

Senate guts 1st Amendment to Guard Israel from Boycott, but Ilhan Omar can’t Bring up AIPAC

Juan Cole

It is important to underline that relatively few American Jews support the tenets of the Israel lobbies

Climate Change
Climate Emergency: Australian Judge Strikes down Coal Mine in Part because of its Carbon Emissions

Climate Emergency: Australian Judge Strikes down Coal Mine in Part because of its Carbon Emissions

Juan Cole

The environmentalists also entered into the proceedings Australia’s having signed on the the Paris Agreement

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Iran's Khamenei: 'Death to America' means US Rulers, not American Public

Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Death to America’ means US Rulers, not American Public

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The clerical Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, said Friday on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, that Iran has good relations with all the countries of the world. He observed that he does not urge breaking relations with any European country. “The slogan ‘Death to America,’” he said, […]

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Did the National Enquirer blackmail Amazon's Jeff Bezos to Protect the Saudi Crown Prince?

Did the National Enquirer blackmail Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Protect the Saudi Crown Prince?

Juan Cole

Bezos alleges that the investigation of the Saudi connection most alarmed Mr. Pecker, and precipitated the attempt to blackmail the Amazon CEO

Climate Change
Last 5 Years Hottest on Record:  NASA, NOAA; & World Hotter than any time in 120,000 years

Last 5 Years Hottest on Record: NASA, NOAA; & World Hotter than any time in 120,000 years

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) and its sister agency NOAA report that the past 5 years are the hottest on record. World-wide temperature records began being kept from about 1880. Global heating proceeds differently in each area of the globe. The real heat wave in comparative terms was […]

Donald Trump
Trump Can't escape having called Nazis "Very Fine People" by SOTU Spectacle

Trump Can’t escape having called Nazis “Very Fine People” by SOTU Spectacle

Juan Cole

So this is the story of how Donald Trump tried to use misdirection at his State of the Union address to take the spotlight off his Neonazi tendencies, which underlie his hatred of African-Americans (against whom he was found to discriminate as a landlord), of Mexicans, of Muslims, and other peoples not coded as “white” […]

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