Juan Cole

A sort of Muslim pacifist, the artist maintains that Islam is all about peace

Iran’s Khamenei endorses Closing Gulf Oil Shipping if US Blockades

Khamenei criticized those pragmatists who sought to separate diplomacy and ideology

There is no ‘holy war’ in the Qur’an and ‘jihad’ means trying to be a good person

The Israeli parliament or Knesset has passed a law openly declaring Palestinians to be second-class citizens

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Donald Trump to let Russian security forces interrogate former US ambassador in Moscow

The Russian press disagreed about whether the Putin-Trump Helsinki summit was contentless or whether new agreements were reached

There is something profoundly hypocritical about US elites pretending that the US doesn’t embrace people like Putin all the time

Trump categorized the European Union as a “foe” of the US, appearing to put it on the same footing as Russia and China

Sadiq Khan as mayor of London is the opposite of Trump in every way