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Juan Cole

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Martin Luther King, Jr. in Arabic Translation

Martin Luther King, Jr. in Arabic Translation

Juan Cole

The Global Americana Institute is delighted to announce the publication in Arabic of Marshall Frady’s biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. along with some of King’s landmark speeches and writings. The book has been brought out by Dar al-Saqi, the foremost Arabic publishing house, which also does important English-language publishing in London. This timely and […]

Israel/ Palestine
Why they Hate us: Romney Secretly Plots to Screw Palestinians over Again

Why they Hate us: Romney Secretly Plots to Screw Palestinians over Again

Juan Cole

In a conversation with donors he thought private, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out with startling clarity the American policy toward the Palestinians: Mother Jones has the story, and the transcript. Romney typifies the American duplicity toward the 12 million Palestinians. His campaign speaks of a ‘two-state solution.’ But in private he admits that […]

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America’s Hypocrisy in Bahrain (Marlowe)

America’s Hypocrisy in Bahrain (Marlowe)

Juan Cole

Jen Marlowe writes at Tomdispatch.com Terror and Teargas on the Streets of Bahrain The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (in the U.S. at Least) By Jen Marlowe Jihan Kazerooni and I drove past scores of armed riot police on Budaiya highway as her iPhone buzzed non-stop: phone calls, Skype calls and, incessantly, Twitter. I had […]

Islam
Calm Muslim Berates Violent Muslims for Defaming Islam and being Suckers

Calm Muslim Berates Violent Muslims for Defaming Islam and being Suckers

Juan Cole

Nouman Ali Khan of the Bayyinah Institute appeals to the Quran, the behavior of the Prophet Muhammad, and common sense in upbraiding the violent believers for letting Islamophobes get their goat and provoking them to actions that detract from the reputation of Muslims and Islam.

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Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls Working People Leeches

Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls Working People Leeches

Juan Cole

It turns out that Mitt Romney divides Americans into two groups. Nearly half, 47%, (145.7 million people) are leeches. They are the ones, he says, who ‘pay no income tax’ and expect the rest of the country to support them while they lounge around. The video of his remarks leaked to Youtube: He actually says […]

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Top Myths about Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Program

Top Myths about Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Program

Juan Cole

1. Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program is alleged by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be a stealth nuclear weapons program. But there is no evidence at all for this allegation, and it was contradicted by Netanyahu’s own Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, who admitted that Iran has not decided to initiate a nuclear weapons program. […]

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Netanyahu in 1992:  Iran close to having nuclear bomb

Netanyahu in 1992: Iran close to having nuclear bomb

Juan Cole

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is trapped in reflection theory. He was allegedly himself involved in illegally smuggling nuclear triggers out of the US, and he assumes that Iran desperately wants a nuclear weapon as well. But Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has given a fatwa against nukes, and there is no solid intelligence pointing to an […]

Afghanistan
Top Ten Likely Consequences of Muslim anti-US Embassy Riots

Top Ten Likely Consequences of Muslim anti-US Embassy Riots

Juan Cole

1. Tourism in Egypt and Tunisia, the economies of which heavily depend on it, is likely to take a nosedive this fall. It is a shame, because Tunisia had been hoping for a near return to 2010 levels of 7 million visitors this year. And Egypt’s tourism was up 16% over the previous year, though […]

Afghanistan
The War on Terror Comes to Facebook (Harvey)

The War on Terror Comes to Facebook (Harvey)

Juan Cole

Stephanie Harvey writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Facebook, the social networking website with over 955 million profiles, has been used as a ‘honey trap’ by terrorists posing as attractive women to unsuspecting Australian military personnel. This is, at least according to the Australian government, the new danger that the war on terror has […]

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