When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]
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Is Iraq Actually Falling Apart? What Social Science Surveys Show
By Mansoor Moaddel Several nationally representative surveys carried out in Iraq between 2004 and 2013 provide important facts about Iraqi orientations toward secular politics, basis […]
Pakistan Needs Regional and Global Alliances to Fight the Extremists
By Muqtedar Khan Pakistan on Sunday launched another military operation — Zarb-e-Azb — against the extremists in Waziristan. The name of the operation means sharp […]
Obama Prepares for Drone War in Iraq
By Juan Cole President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that he will send 300 Green Beret Army special operations soldiers to Iraq. They will be […]
Israeli Occupation Army harasses Palestinians on Pretext of Missing Settler Youth
Palestinian families bear brunt as Israel hunts teens (via AFP) It was the sound of the front door being kicked in that woke the Izrayqat […]
It’s come to this: Fox News brings on NFL’s Terry Bradshaw for Benghazi analysis
Fox News on Wednesday continued its multi-year obsession with the terrorist attack in Benghazi by inviting NFL football analyst and former quarterback Terry Bradshaw to weigh in. Out Numbered host Andrea Tantaros began the segment by highlighting a…
Iraq is more like N. Ireland than Lebanon, Reconciliation is Possible
By Jocelyne Cesari The attack of The Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) on Mossul and its march on Baghdad has taken the […]
Torture: What’s Race Got to do with It?
By Rebecca Gordon June is Torture Awareness Month, so this seems like a good time to consider some difficult aspects of torture people in the […]
As US Pressures Maliki to Resign, will Iraqi Gov’t Collapse?
By Juan Cole A consensus is forming in Washington that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki must resign, as part of accountability for his failures with his […]
Cons of Going to War against Iraq (Cole, Jan. 2003)
By Juan Cole From a talk I gave at the University of Michigan in late 2002, publised at the beginning of 2003. It is often […]
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