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Juan Cole

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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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Refugee Muslim Women that Trump wouldn't Have Let in, win House Seats

Refugee Muslim Women that Trump wouldn’t Have Let in, win House Seats

Juan Cole

Omar and Tlaib both faced horrible Islamophobic hate campaigns during their races, but Minnesotans and Detroiters look down on Nazis.

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Your Health, Social Security, and Safety Depend on Voting Democratic Today

Your Health, Social Security, and Safety Depend on Voting Democratic Today

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today’s midterm elections are among the more fateful in recent American history, quite simply because there is a madman in the White House whom the Republican Senate and House have absolutely refused to rein in. When Barack Obama wanted to close the US gulag at Guantanamo Bay, where inmates are […]

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As World warns of WW I-Style Nationalisms, Top 5 Nations Trump Demonizes

As World warns of WW I-Style Nationalisms, Top 5 Nations Trump Demonizes

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron warned, as Europe prepares to commemorate the end of World War I a century ago on November 11, that the world is entering a new age of destructive nationalism. Virulent nationalism roiled Europe and killed over 80 million people in the two world wars. That is […]

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Hate can only be Cured by Love: Reflections on the Tree of Life and other Atrocities

Hate can only be Cured by Love: Reflections on the Tree of Life and other Atrocities

Juan Cole

Extremists are trying to polarize us and set us against one another. The only effective response is to refuse to be divided

Donald Trump
Top 5 Reasons Trump's Menacing Iran with Game of Thrones Tweet is Horrible

Top 5 Reasons Trump’s Menacing Iran with Game of Thrones Tweet is Horrible

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With his seemingly infinite capacity for tone deafness, Trump tweeted on Friday an HBO-style movie poster of himself with the phrase “Sanctions are coming,” referring to the Game of Thrones tagline that “winter is coming,” and thereby menacing Iran. HBO issued a formal complaint against use of its material for […]

Climate Change
Trump Paradox: He promotes CO2 even as Climate Emergency impels Emigration from Guatemala

Trump Paradox: He promotes CO2 even as Climate Emergency impels Emigration from Guatemala

Juan Cole

Locals say the climate has become unusually unpredictable over their lifetimes

Islam
The Qur’an insists that Synagogues and Churches be Preserved and Respected

The Qur’an insists that Synagogues and Churches be Preserved and Respected

Juan Cole

“They should not have entered them save in fearful reverence.”

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