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Juan Cole

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Hostess Executives Dipped into Employees' Pension Funds

Hostess Executives Dipped into Employees’ Pension Funds

Juan Cole

Executives of Hostess, the maker of “Twinkies,” have admitted that they did not put the money paid into workers’ pension plans into a separate account. Rather, they basically stole the money and used it for operating expenses. In turn, the money inevitably supported the executives’ own bonuses. (This practice is not illegal in the US, […]

Islamophobia
Michigan Republicans propose anti-Sharia law to Discriminate against Muslim Americans

Michigan Republicans propose anti-Sharia law to Discriminate against Muslim Americans

Juan Cole

Michigan State legislator David Agema has introduced an anti-sharia bill that attempts to ban the implementation of ‘foreign law’ in the US that would contradict constitutional rights. Agema openly says he wants to target the Muslim-American community of southeast Michigan, falsely alleging that there are terrorist cells among them. Arab-Americans have emerged as an important […]

Afghanistan
America’s Afghanistan Odyssey:  When will Enough be Enough? (Stevenson)

America’s Afghanistan Odyssey: When will Enough be Enough? (Stevenson)

Juan Cole

Jack Stevenson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The US has been involved, covertly or openly, in military actions in Afghanistan since 1979, with no end in sight. Nor, after all these decades, is the news very good. A Taliban assassination attempt has put Afghanistan’s chief intelligence and security official in the hospital. […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Apartheid Deepens (Cole at Truthdig)

Israel’s Apartheid Deepens (Cole at Truthdig)

Juan Cole

My essay on the aftermath of the Gaza conflict is out in Truthdig; it is entitled “Israel’s Apartheid Deepens, Along With Its Global Isolation” Excerpt: “Building a new, large settlement in the E-1 area between west Jerusalem and the big settlement of Maale Adumim just nine miles from the Dead Sea border with Jordan would […]

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Jeff Halper:  Permanent Matrix of Control being Laid over Palestinian Territory (ICAHD Video)

Jeff Halper: Permanent Matrix of Control being Laid over Palestinian Territory (ICAHD Video)

Juan Cole

Part 1 of Jeff Halper’s recent talk in London for the Israeli Committee against House Demolition, which says that 28,000 Palestinian homes have by now been razed by the Israeli state: Here is Part 2: ICAHD does incredible work (click here). Please support them.

Syria
Obama Recognizes Syrian Opposition as Government, as Fighters advance in Aleppo, Damascus

Obama Recognizes Syrian Opposition as Government, as Fighters advance in Aleppo, Damascus

Juan Cole

President Obama announced on Tuesday that the US now formally recognizes the Syrian opposition as the legitimate government of Syria: US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Tuesday that there were no further indications of the Syrian regime priming itself to deploy chemical weapons. (My own suspicion is that Israeli intelligence planted that story in […]

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Michigan Workers now have Right to “Work for Less” (Granholm Video)

Michigan Workers now have Right to “Work for Less” (Granholm Video)

Juan Cole

Jennifer Granholm explains that Michigan’s new “right to work” law actually is a “right to work for less,” resulting in thousands of dollars a year less income for the average worker and even a lower education budget. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who is in the back pocket of the notorious oil billionaires, the Koch brothers, […]

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In Memoriam: Ravi Shankar teaches George Harrison to Play Sitar

In Memoriam: Ravi Shankar teaches George Harrison to Play Sitar

Juan Cole

Ravi Shankar, the great sitar player who deeply influenced the American popular music of the 1960s and after, was among the figures who got me interested in India and led to my becoming a historian of South Asia. He died in San Diego on December 11 at age 92. Here is a video of Ravi […]

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America’s Achipelago of Garrisons abroad costs $1 Trillion a Decade (Vine)

America’s Achipelago of Garrisons abroad costs $1 Trillion a Decade (Vine)

Juan Cole

David Vine writes at Tomdispatch.com : “Are you monitoring the construction?” asked the middle-aged man on a bike accompanied by his dog. “Ah, sì,” I replied in my barely passable Italian. “Bene,” he answered. Good. In front of us, a backhoe’s guttural engine whined into action and empty dump trucks rattled along a dirt track. […]

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