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Juan Cole

Colonialism
No, Fox's Katie Pavlich, the US wasn't the First to Abolish Slavery

No, Fox’s Katie Pavlich, the US wasn’t the First to Abolish Slavery

Juan Cole

Fox Cable News’ Katie Pavlich asserted Tuesday, “They keep blaming America for slavery, but the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. America came along as the first country to end it within 150 years. And we get no credit for that.” Seriously, how utterly and comprehensively brain dead stupid and ignorant do […]

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No, Mr. Milstein, Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib are not Muslim Brotherhood and you should be Ashamed

No, Mr. Milstein, Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib are not Muslim Brotherhood and you should be Ashamed

Juan Cole

Adam Milstein just tweeted that “the Muslim Brotherhood is in Congress,” enclosing a picture of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the two Muslim women in Congress. This while decent people are mourning the supremacist murder of 50 innocent Muslim worshipers in New Zealand, instigated by rhetoric like that of Milstein. The […]

Bill of Rights
When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be

When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If Trump were actually acting as a president, he could and would tamp down the terrifying spread of hatred against Muslims that has resulted in several mass murders at mosques in the English-speaking world in recent years. All he would have to do is come out and say that ordinary […]

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Rupert Murdoch's Fox postpones Pirro, as his Sky Channel is Pulled from NZ Airwaves for airing Shooter's Video

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox postpones Pirro, as his Sky Channel is Pulled from NZ Airwaves for airing Shooter’s Video

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – World-straddling press lord Rupert Murdoch’s media is under pressure in the wake of the massacre of 50 worshipers by a white supremacist terrorist at a Christchurch mosque. Murdoch’s Fox News is known for pushing white nationalist themes and for demonizing Muslims, and his Sky News Australia is not very different. […]

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Dear Sen. Anning re: Mosque Shooting:  The  Qur’an Forbids Murder and Commands Peacemaking

Dear Sen. Anning re: Mosque Shooting: The Qur’an Forbids Murder and Commands Peacemaking

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A far right wing senator in Australia, Fraser Anning, issued a despicable and widely condemned statement after fascist white supremacists from Australia murdered 49 persons at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. He referred to the mass murder merely as “vigilantism,” as though it were an understandable policing of a neighborhood […]

Donald Trump
New Zealand: Is Trumpism now replacing ISIL as a major Cause of Stochastic Terrorism?

New Zealand: Is Trumpism now replacing ISIL as a major Cause of Stochastic Terrorism?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the tactics of the so-called “Islamic State group” or ISIL had been to put out calls on the internet and social media for people to engage in random acts of violence. In some instances, these fevered and vague expression of violent grievance infested the nightmares of unstable young […]

Bernie Sanders
In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen

In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen

Juan Cole

The US Senate voted 54 to 46 to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act and to end US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen. The Yemen War has involved extensive war crimes, in which the US is complicit. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the Saudis launched the war in spring […]

Archaeology
Dear Tucker Carlson:  Iraqis Invented Civilization and, like, Literacy when "White Men" were Painting themselves Blue

Dear Tucker Carlson: Iraqis Invented Civilization and, like, Literacy when “White Men” were Painting themselves Blue

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tucker Carlson has been playing David Duke with a northeast accent and bow tie for some years, but in radio interviews with Bubba the Love Sponge from a decade ago released by Media Matters, he gave up the dog whistle for butchering and barbecuing the dog. Mediamatters4america: “Tucker Carlson makes […]

journalism
Rupert Murdoch Provocateur Tucker Carlson Exposed in Bubba the Love Sponge Interview (TYT Video)

Rupert Murdoch Provocateur Tucker Carlson Exposed in Bubba the Love Sponge Interview (TYT Video)

Juan Cole

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | The Young Turks | (Video News Clip) | – “Media Matters for America has released an interview Tucker Carlson did on the Bubba The Love Sponge show, Tucker probably wishes this didn’t come out. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss Tucker’s disgusting comments on The Young Turks.” The Young […]

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