Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]
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Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?
The ‘War on Terror’ is destroying Democracy
That Time when Muslim Tunisia advised the Antebellum US to Abolish Slavery
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised classroom version Some observers imply that in 1861, most people in the world believed in […]
No Compromise: Let’s not forget Kelly’s ‘Empty Barrel’ Smear
Kelly seems not to think enslaving people of African Heritage was Always Wrong
Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq
US Middle East policy often seemed similar to Putin’s Plot on America via Trump
Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship
By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | – – When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to […]
Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con
By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Yesterday the former chairman of President Trump’s presidential campaign and the architect of last year’s Republican […]
Climate Emergency: Heat Trapping Gases make largest Jump in recorded history
TeleSur | (Informed Comment) | – – Carbon dioxide or CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have reached unprecedented high levels, a United Nations watchdog group […]
How Fox & Murdoch paved way for Putin Election Ploy
Reprint edn. Update: Reuters reports that “Facebook says 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked political posts” By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – […]
A mid-6th Century (Christian?) proto-Arabic Inscription from N. Arabia Mentioning Al-Ilah
(Politically oriented readers of IC please excuse this reprint of a path-breaking but extremely technical discussion in Arabian religious and linguistic history. It is highly […]