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Juan Cole

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Trump's Visa Ban, Rhetoric Scare off Foreign Students, Threatening 450K Jobs

Trump’s Visa Ban, Rhetoric Scare off Foreign Students, Threatening 450K Jobs

Juan Cole

Educating students from abroad is a $42 bn industry in the US

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Remembering Stan Lee

Remembering Stan Lee

Juan Cole

“There is only One in the universe who is All-Powerful, and his only weapon is . . . Love.”

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Macron's Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn't note Dehumanization

Macron’s Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn’t note Dehumanization

Juan Cole

The old demons are resurging

Qur'an
The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

Juan Cole

The Qur’an has subsisted in the literature of Christian and post-Christian Europe and the Americas in a shifting borderland between self and other.

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The Lessons of World War I-- Don't Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

The Lessons of World War I– Don’t Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

Juan Cole

Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, about which he knows almost nothing. The outbreak of that war in 1914 took many contemporaries by surprise. That it would last four years, when leaders promised a quick victory, was a another shock. That advanced machine guns and artillery would make mincemeat […]

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Yemen: Trump admin Further distances Self from Saudi-Led bombers

Yemen: Trump admin Further distances Self from Saudi-Led bombers

Juan Cole

After Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave Saudi Arabia and its allies a month to start negotiations with the Houthi rebels in Sanaa, nothing much seemed to happen. Friday, an official Saudi source said that the coalition had asked the US, after consultations, to cease its in-flight refueling of […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers Shoot 6 Children, 9 Women & 22 Other Unarmed Protesters in Gaza

Israeli Snipers Shoot 6 Children, 9 Women & 22 Other Unarmed Protesters in Gaza

Juan Cole

Witnesses say paramedic, Filastin Qudeih was injured with a live bullet in her leg.

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15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

Juan Cole

Revised The mass shooting in a bar in California that left 12 dead was carried out by a Vet, making it doubly tragic. The United States has never dealt with the trauma it has inflicted on a whole generation of young people by sending them to fight a fruitless and illegal war in Iraq and […]

Democratic Party
The Top 11 Things the Dems Absolutely must Do in the House

The Top 11 Things the Dems Absolutely must Do in the House

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – More progressive Democrats in the House must be prepared to fight like hell against the Pelosi-Schumer establishment, which will try to make them quiescent and go along with corporate priorities. What 2016 showed is that that platform is a formula for humiliating defeat and irrelevance. Democrats have to stand for […]

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