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Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
I am Bradley Manning (celebrity video protesting treason charge)

I am Bradley Manning (celebrity video protesting treason charge)

Juan Cole

The celebrity video ‘I am Bradley Manning: protests against the ‘aiding the enemy charge’ against leaker Manning, who is now being tried in a military court. The organization website is here.

Energy
Dear Jenny McCarthy and Bill McKibben: Coal Plants are causing Autism, Let's Sue Them!

Dear Jenny McCarthy and Bill McKibben: Coal Plants are causing Autism, Let’s Sue Them!

Juan Cole

The situation comedy actress Jenny McCarthy has done great damage to public health by her wrong-headed thesis that vaccines cause autism. This is not true, as much research has confirmed. But now we have a scientific study that shows what really is causing the autism epidemic: exposure of the mother when she is pregnant to […]

Iran
Russia:  Iran is ready to Cease Enriching Uranium to 20%

Russia: Iran is ready to Cease Enriching Uranium to 20%

Juan Cole

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov repeated in an interview with the Kuwaiti press on Tuesday an assertion he has made before, i.e. that Iran stands ready to cease enriching uranium to 19.75% for the purpose of fueling its medical reactor. This level of enrichment was forced on Iran when it ran out of enriched uranium […]

Uncategorized
60% of Free Syria Army fighting for Islamic State: Channel 4 News

60% of Free Syria Army fighting for Islamic State: Channel 4 News

Juan Cole

Channel 4 News interviews a journalist who has been with the Free Syria Army for the past 6 months on what motivates them. He says that 60% want an Islamic state. Inigo Gilmore interviews Bilal Abdul Karim:

Uncategorized
Brazil Protests (In the Eye of the Storm Video)

Brazil Protests (In the Eye of the Storm Video)

Juan Cole

Brazilians in the hundreds of thousands have been protesting the high cost of city bus tickets, diversion of government funds to international projects like the world cup, and ‘poor public services, police violence and government corruption.’ Michel De Souza’s video of events on the ground:

Domestic Surveillance
Why Cheney is the Traitor, and Why we Can't Believe Obama on Safeguards (The Ultimate Clip of Gov't Lies)

Why Cheney is the Traitor, and Why we Can’t Believe Obama on Safeguards (The Ultimate Clip of Gov’t Lies)

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney on Monday called NSA leaker Edward Snowden a traitor, and Snowden shot back that given Cheney’s own lies about Iraq, it is an honor for any American to be accused of treason by the former vice president. On Monday evening, Barack Obama came on Charlie Rose and insisted that the NSA would never […]

Energy
Japan's Feed-in Tariff Kicks off Explosive Renewables Growth (Video Report)

Japan’s Feed-in Tariff Kicks off Explosive Renewables Growth (Video Report)

Juan Cole

This video report argues that Japan’s introduction of feed-in tariffs has given a huge boost to its renewable energy market, and that India should follow suit. Infographic on feed-in tariffs, which are explained at this UK government site: India’s ANI multimedia reports: Japan’s growth in renewables has attracted have a billion dollars in investment recently […]

CIA
Syria, NSA Spying, Popular Mobilization and History:  Cole Interview in La Prensa (Ricky Martinez)

Syria, NSA Spying, Popular Mobilization and History: Cole Interview in La Prensa (Ricky Martinez)

Juan Cole

Interview with Juan Cole by Ricky Martínez (These are the English notes of the interview rearranged in pyramid form; they were translated and published in a different sequence in Spanish at La Prensa of Panama City). Many thanks to Mr. Martinez for a wide-ranging conversation! RM: How is Syria different from Libya? Syria is different […]

Domestic Surveillance
PATRIOT Act Drafters worried about Library Privacy, had No Idea everyone’s Phone Records would be Dragooned (Elliott)

PATRIOT Act Drafters worried about Library Privacy, had No Idea everyone’s Phone Records would be Dragooned (Elliott)

Juan Cole

Justin Elliott writes at ProPublica In the months following the October 2001, passage of the Patriot Act, there was a heated public debate about the very provision of the law that we now know the government is using to vacuum up phone records of American citizens on a massive scale. “A chilling intrusion” declared one […]

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