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Juan Cole

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Israel Seeks to undermine US 1st Amendment, Will Sue Airbnb over Delisting WB Squatter Apts

Israel Seeks to undermine US 1st Amendment, Will Sue Airbnb over Delisting WB Squatter Apts

Juan Cole

Airbnb, the giant online apartment rental site will delist 200 apartments of Israeli squatters on the Palestinian West Bank. The company has long been criticized for violating international law by dealing with the illegal colonists. Israel occupied the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza in 1967, and has introduced Apartheid rule there, keeping the Palestinians stateless. […]

Islamophobia
On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)

On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)

Juan Cole

Of the 100 million or so people I estimate were wiped out by political violence in the twentieth century, the vast majority of them were killed by secular nationalists, Communists and Fascists

Climate Change
Is the Green New Deal our Civil Rights Movement?  John Lewis Joins

Is the Green New Deal our Civil Rights Movement? John Lewis Joins

Juan Cole

Veteran Congressman and Civil Rights icon John Lewis (D-GA) has joined the Green New Deal proposed by the Sunrise Movement and endorsed by newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Here is a video of his remarks, among them that the people “have a right to know what we are breathing.” Here’s the video of civil […]

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Trump tries to counter CIA Leak on Bin Salman complicity in Khashoggi Murder

Trump tries to counter CIA Leak on Bin Salman complicity in Khashoggi Murder

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump attempted on Saturday to push back against his own Central Intelligence Agency’s assessment that Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his brother Khalid (the Saudi ambassador to the US) were behind the assassination at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump called the leak of […]

Islam
Juan Cole @ Rising up With Sonali on "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace"

Juan Cole @ Rising up With Sonali on “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace”

Juan Cole

Islam is the youngest of the world’s major religions – and sadly the most misunderstood

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Is CIA leak of Bin Salman's guilt in Khashoggi Murder aimed at Kushner, or Trump himself?

Is CIA leak of Bin Salman’s guilt in Khashoggi Murder aimed at Kushner, or Trump himself?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The CIA has leaked against Jared Kushner and Trump that Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), the Saudi crown prince, ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. President Trump had asked the CIA to do an assessment of the murder. Apparently, from the leak to the US […]

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Trump said Considering Extradition of Turkish Cleric to Quiet Erdogan on Khashoggi Murder

Trump said Considering Extradition of Turkish Cleric to Quiet Erdogan on Khashoggi Murder

Juan Cole

The US government has repeatedly denied such Turkish requests

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Scotland was first Industrialized Country to Run wholly on Wind in October

Scotland was first Industrialized Country to Run wholly on Wind in October

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland generated enough wind power from onshore wind turbines in October to fuel electricity for five million homes, that is, virtually the entire country. By the end of 2017, renewable energy generated nearly 70% of Scotland’s electricity. That percentage continued to grow this year, led by wind projects. The next […]

Israel/ Palestine
Chomsky: Occupation, Gaza ‘Concentration Camp’ turning Israel Fascist

Chomsky: Occupation, Gaza ‘Concentration Camp’ turning Israel Fascist

Juan Cole

‘Keeping a Jackboot on people’s necks’

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