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Juan Cole

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Top 5 Things Released Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Learned in Colonial Israeli Prison

Top 5 Things Released Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Learned in Colonial Israeli Prison

Juan Cole

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Arab World
Trump Disses Real NATO, now Wants Unrealistic Arab NATO

Trump Disses Real NATO, now Wants Unrealistic Arab NATO

Juan Cole

The Trump White House is again hoping for a summit of Gulf Arab leaders this fall, after the last one collapsed. The idea is to establish a Middle East Strategic Alliance against Iran. It would involve supplying these countries with US-made anti-missile batteries and training their militaries for better self-defense against Iran. Trump is not […]

Climate Change
Global Heat Wave made Twice as Likely by Humans Burning Coal, Oil & Gas

Global Heat Wave made Twice as Likely by Humans Burning Coal, Oil & Gas

Juan Cole

You’ve seen the headlines. Dozens of people dead in Japan of heat stroke. Massive forest fires raging in Sweden. Dozens dead in Athens from wildfires. Record temperatures in Oman and Algeria. The world is suffering from heat waves on four continents all at once. Marina Pitofsky notes, “In the past 30 days, there have been […]

Donald Trump
Iran's Soleimani warns Trump that Invading Iran Would spark Ruinous Guerrilla War

Iran’s Soleimani warns Trump that Invading Iran Would spark Ruinous Guerrilla War

Juan Cole

Qasem Soleimani, the head of the special operations Jerusalem (Qods) Brigade of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, spent Thursday morning taunting US president Donald Trump, whom he called a casino gambler. He warned Trump, “We are closer to you than you think. Keep in mind that I am keeping account of you. And you know […]

Donald Trump
"Reject the Evidence of your Ears:" Trump, Orwell, & Cohen Bunny Tape

“Reject the Evidence of your Ears:” Trump, Orwell, & Cohen Bunny Tape

Juan Cole

Trump’s success stems in large part from his hucksterism, from his disregard for facts and his ability to pull the wool over the eyes of his cultists. It also stems from a shrewd use of logical fallacies in argument. After the catastrophic Helsinki summit, the question was, ‘Is he Putin’s poodle?’ That is a good […]

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"Hypocritical Clergymen"- How the Trump-Pompeo Slam of Iran Backfires

“Hypocritical Clergymen”- How the Trump-Pompeo Slam of Iran Backfires

Juan Cole

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s rant against Iran on Sunday accused the leadership of that country of hoarding the country’s wealth, behaving like a mafia, and being hypocritical clergymen. While these allegations are not without basis in fact, Pompeo’s own record undermines the critique. The Trump administration is itself a government of billionaires, by billionaires […]

Donald Trump
Trump and Iran’s Rouhani Threaten each other with the Mother of all Wars

Trump and Iran’s Rouhani Threaten each other with the Mother of all Wars

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In remarks Saturday to the Iranian foreign policy establishment in Tehran, President Hassan Rouhani gave some warnings to Donald Trump. He said, “Mr. Trump, do not play with the lion’s tail. The only result of such a course will be profound regret.” With regard to Washington’s current attempts to sow […]

art and photography
Haider Ali, Pakistan’s Truck Art, and Islam’s Message of Peace

Haider Ali, Pakistan’s Truck Art, and Islam’s Message of Peace

Juan Cole

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

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

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

Juan Cole

Khamenei criticized those pragmatists who sought to separate diplomacy and ideology

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