Juan Cole

Chris Woods writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Analysis: How Washington Post strips casualties from covert drone data The Washington Post: is it telling the whole story? Alongside the Washington Post’s latest blockbuster reports on the Obama administration’s drone kill list is a new graphic, depicting US covert strikes since 2002. Based on studies […]

The Syrian opposition appears split on American intervention to shape its leadership. The Syrian revolution is a grassroots affair, with hundreds of small groups on the ground, some of them neighborhood associations, others bigger organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood. The umbrella group for the fighters on the ground inside the country is the Free […]

Laughing camel being tickled.

Hurricane Sandy knocked out electricity to New York University’s Langone Hospital, which had to evacuate its patients. Bellevue Hospital also had to be cleared and the patients sent elsewhere. This story is a horrible one, and one’s heart goes out to the patients, already ill, who lost electricity under these frightening circumstances and had to […]

NASA scientist James Hansen explains that we are facing a planetary emergency and that the public is still largely unaware of how menacing it is. The danger is that we could pass tipping points, such as melting of ice sheets, which could lead to rapid increases in sea level. —– Cole: If the public understood […]

Colorado mom captures little daughter’s frustration with the length of the presidential campaign. Back story here.

The Kingdom of Bahrain has banned all public demonstrations and rallies, in a strike against the Shiite Wifaq Party, led by cleric Ali Salman. The king of Bahrain and most of his high officials are Sunni, while about 60% of the population is Shiite (their proportion was even greater before the government bestowed citizenship on […]