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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad
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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – Osamah F. Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard […]

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

06/08/2025 By Cal Matters

Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

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Tens of Thousands in Turkey Protest Tyranny of the Majority

Tens of Thousands in Turkey Protest Tyranny of the Majority

(By Juan Cole) Tens of thousands of Turks demonstrated in Istanbul and other cities on Wednesday coming off the funeral of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan. Elvan […]

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al-Qaeda
Cole @ C-Span:  Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda (video lecture)

Cole @ C-Span: Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda (video lecture)

(By Juan Cole) My class lecture, “Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda,” was filmed by C-Span in February and has been shown on television; it […]

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Renewable Energy Boom coming to the Middle East

Renewable Energy Boom coming to the Middle East

Middle East North Africa Area To See Renewable Energy Boom (via Clean Technica) The trade association behind the DESERTEC Concept of the same name has […]

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President Obama zings Zach Galifianakis on "Between Two Ferns"

President Obama zings Zach Galifianakis on “Between Two Ferns”

President Obama on funnyordie.com plugging the Affordable Health Care Act: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama —– Related […]

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Climate Change
 By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis

By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis

(By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch) As the San Francisco bureaucrats on the dais murmured about why they weren’t getting anywhere near what we in the […]

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Domestic Surveillance
When it is Feinstein being Spied on, Suddenly she Squawks

When it is Feinstein being Spied on, Suddenly she Squawks

(By Juan Cole) Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) took to the senate floor on Tuesday to denounce the Central Intelligence Agency for spying on her staff […]

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Economy
Libya's Parliament dumps PM Zeidan, Elects al-Thinni, over Oil Tanker Crisis

Libya’s Parliament dumps PM Zeidan, Elects al-Thinni, over Oil Tanker Crisis

(By Juan Cole) In a series of dramatic political moves, the Libyan General National Congress on Tuesday carried out a vote of no confidence in […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
“Normalizing” Suicide Bombing:  What the Assassination of Abu Khaled al-Soury Says about Jihadism Today

“Normalizing” Suicide Bombing: What the Assassination of Abu Khaled al-Soury Says about Jihadism Today

(Jeffrey William Lewis) On February 23 the Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia concluded peacefully. A terrorist attack by Chechen Black Widow suicide bombers—much feared and […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Edward Snowden:  The US is Undermining its own Cybersecurity

Edward Snowden: The US is Undermining its own Cybersecurity

SXSW: Snowden Touts Encryption, Swipes at NSA (via slashdot) In a Google Hangout with an auditorium full of South by Southwest attendees, government whistleblower (and […]

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