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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
Donald Trump

When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

Mitchell Zimmerman

Kristi Noem’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence

A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

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Prelude to Ethnic Cleansing?  Israel Plans 3200 more Squatter homes on Palestinian Land

Prelude to Ethnic Cleansing? Israel Plans 3200 more Squatter homes on Palestinian Land

Israel huge new settlement push raises Palestinian ire (via AFP) Israel unveiled plans for 3,200 settler homes Thursday in retaliation for the formation of a […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Egypt, Syria, Libya . . . . What is the Appeal of Phoney Elections in the Middle East?

Egypt, Syria, Libya . . . . What is the Appeal of Phoney Elections in the Middle East?

By Juan Cole The world has been treated to a whole series of “elections” in the Middle East recently. Iraq had parliamentary elections, Libya’s parliament […]

Juan Cole

Christians
How Reagan subverted the meaning of D-Day & the New Deal of the Greatest Generation

How Reagan subverted the meaning of D-Day & the New Deal of the Greatest Generation

The following is an excerpt from Harvey J. Kaye’s The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (Simon & Schuster, 2014). On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan went to Normandy, France, to speak at events…

Juan Cole

Books
Harvard confirms antique book is bound in human skin

Harvard confirms antique book is bound in human skin

Harvard University scientists have confirmed that a 19th century French treatise in its libraries is bound in human skin, Harvard University said this week, after a bevvy of scientific testing. Arsene Houssaye’s “Des destinees de l’ame” (On the destiny…

Juan Cole

Books
“In your Wild Dreams, what are you Looking for?” Rubaiyat of Jalalu’d-Din Rumi

“In your Wild Dreams, what are you Looking for?” Rubaiyat of Jalalu’d-Din Rumi

Courtesy Anthony A. Lee, here are four poems from his and the late Amin Banani’s translation of the quatrains of the great Sufi mystic Mevlana […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Georgia Courthouse is shot up by Sovereign Citizen after GOP backs Bundy, Open Carry

Georgia Courthouse is shot up by Sovereign Citizen after GOP backs Bundy, Open Carry

By Juan Cole That didn’t take long. The Georgia GOP rushed into law an ‘open carry’ provision in April allowing people to tote around guns […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Can Obama Make good on his Pledge to overturn Citizens United with a Constitutional Amendment?

Can Obama Make good on his Pledge to overturn Citizens United with a Constitutional Amendment?

In his new book, Ken Vogel claims that President Barack Obama told Democratic donors he believes he is in a good position to pass a constitutional amendment to repeal Citizens United. The book, entitled “Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious…

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censorship
Iran's Rouhani pulls a Pope Francis: 'Let People choose own path to Heaven'

Iran’s Rouhani pulls a Pope Francis: ‘Let People choose own path to Heaven’

By Golnaz Esfandiari Twenty-five years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death, the clerical establishment ushered in by the Islamic republic's founding father is at odds over […]

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Barack Obama
Does our and Obama’s Paralysis on Global Warming come from American Exceptionalism?

Does our and Obama’s Paralysis on Global Warming come from American Exceptionalism?

By William Espinosa President Obama’s proposal to modestly curb carbon emissions from power plants is – if carried out—a serious one. But opposition was immediate, […]

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