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Juan Cole

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The Seventh Exclusion:  Great Moments in American Racist Immigration History

The Seventh Exclusion: Great Moments in American Racist Immigration History

Juan Cole

US history is replete with racism as public policy

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New Light on the Arabian Religious Background of Islam?

New Light on the Arabian Religious Background of Islam?

Juan Cole

Aside from the Qur’an itself, all the sources we have were written down after the Abbasid Revolution of 750 against the Umayyads

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No, Iran's Grand Bazaar Protest doesn't mean the Government or Economy is Collapsing

No, Iran’s Grand Bazaar Protest doesn’t mean the Government or Economy is Collapsing

Juan Cole

These were rallies of the economically privileged

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Warning to US:  Erdogan has used same techniques as Trump to de-Democratize Turkey

Warning to US: Erdogan has used same techniques as Trump to de-Democratize Turkey

Juan Cole

Erdogan’s rise as an authoritarian strong man is a key lesson to America about how Trump could move the US in a similar direction

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Sarah Sanders complains about not being served in Restaurant after Urging same Treatment of Gays, Immigrants

Sarah Sanders complains about not being served in Restaurant after Urging same Treatment of Gays, Immigrants

Juan Cole

Sara Sanders complained on Twitter about not being served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. WaPo reports that the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, insisted that patrons uphold standards of honesty and compassion, and that Sanders flacks for an “inhumane and unethical” administration, defending Trump’s “cruelest policies.” Wilkinson’s grounds for not serving the White House […]

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The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats

The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats

Juan Cole

The US would require a social revolution to even resemble France or Germany

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#Bringbackourgirls: How Trump made the US into Boko Haram

#Bringbackourgirls: How Trump made the US into Boko Haram

Juan Cole

One of the horrible practices of the radical group was stealing children from their parents and making them disappear into “social death”

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Not only Is Trump's Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int'l Law

Not only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int’l Law

Juan Cole

The US is a signatory state to a 1967 protocol that binds it to act in concert with the UN High Commissioner on Refugees

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Climate Terror Stalks us, and We Yawn-- 3 Decades Later

Climate Terror Stalks us, and We Yawn– 3 Decades Later

Juan Cole

Global heating is a vastly bigger danger to us than terrorism or war

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