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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

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The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

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Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq's Response

Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq’s Response

Human Rights Watch | (New York) – Militias, volunteer fighters, and Iraqi security forces engaged in deliberate destruction of civilian property after these forces, following […]

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Tom Friedman & funding ISIL:   Israel/Iran Derangement Syndrome

Tom Friedman & funding ISIL: Israel/Iran Derangement Syndrome

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Being a liberal Zionist was always a tough thing to pull off, but it is becoming increasingly just […]

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Democracy
Mideast Reacts with Horror:  "Israel has elected Extremism and Racism"

Mideast Reacts with Horror: “Israel has elected Extremism and Racism”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Observers in the Arab press who contemplated the victory of far right Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu in the […]

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Syria
Growing Up in Syria: Children Images and War

Growing Up in Syria: Children Images and War

Asaad Al-Saleh | (Informed Comment) When I wrote my book, “Voices of the Arab Spring” (Columbia UP, 2015), I did not feature testimonials by children. […]

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Arab Americans

Facing Down Anti-Muslim Bigotry Through Faith in America

David Schanzer | (ISLAMiCommentary) – Address to Islamic Association of Raleigh (NC) David Schanzer As-salamu alaykum. Thank you so much for the invitation to address […]

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al-Qaeda
Will Terrorist attack on Tunisia Museum-goers Test Gov't's Commitment to Rights?

Will Terrorist attack on Tunisia Museum-goers Test Gov’t’s Commitment to Rights?

Human Rights Watch | (Tunis) The despicable attack in the Bardo Museum in Tunis on March 18, 2015, killing at least 19 foreign tourists and Tunisians, […]

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The Palestinian-Israelis' Selma Moment?

The Palestinian-Israelis’ Selma Moment?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Ayman Odah, leader of the Joint Arab List, the party representing Palestinian-Israelis and elements of the Israeli left, responded […]

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Militarization
The Impotence of the Big Dick strain of American Nationalism

The Impotence of the Big Dick strain of American Nationalism

By Nan Levinson | (Tomdispatch.com) Let’s face it: we live in a state of pervasive national security anxiety. There are various possible responses to this […]

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Apartheid
United Nations: 100,000 Gazans Still Homeless Since Summer Attack

United Nations: 100,000 Gazans Still Homeless Since Summer Attack

By IMEMC News & Agencies | – The official UN death-toll for the 2014 war shows that 1,549 Palestinian civilians were killed in comparison to […]

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