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Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran
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Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-Iranian War of 2025 has put Iraq in an extremely difficult situation. The country’s Shiite majority sympathizes with Iran […]

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

06/16/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

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Egypt
Egypt: 8 Wounded in Clashes as Salafi Fundamentalists Object to Elbaradei as PM

Egypt: 8 Wounded in Clashes as Salafi Fundamentalists Object to Elbaradei as PM

Amid a general calming on Saturday in Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula remained a hot spot, when a gas pipeline was bombed, probably by Muslim radicals […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Evo Morales of Bolivia joins in Offering Leaker Snowden Asylum

Evo Morales of Bolivia joins in Offering Leaker Snowden Asylum

Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, on Saturday said that he would offer Edward Snowden asylum if asked. He joins the presidents of Venezuela and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Egypt: Fundamentalists hurl Kids from Building, Beat Them (Caution: Explicit)

Egypt: Fundamentalists hurl Kids from Building, Beat Them (Caution: Explicit)

This video is circulating via YouTube showing two kids being hurled from what looks like a 20-feet-high parapet to the roof of an apartment building […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Brotherhood, Army risk Civil War: 30 Dead, Hundreds Wounded

Brotherhood, Army risk Civil War: 30 Dead, Hundreds Wounded

Egypt veered sharply toward the looming specter of civil war on Friday, as the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood continued to call for resistance to […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Venezuela’s Maduro: Unlike US Asylees, Snowden didn’t Blow anything Up, just said ‘This is not Right’

Venezuela’s Maduro: Unlike US Asylees, Snowden didn’t Blow anything Up, just said ‘This is not Right’

Globovision reports that President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Friday offered asylum to US leaker Edward Snowden, in order, he said, to protect him from […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Gil Scott-Heron Explains 'The Revolution will not be Televised'

Gil Scott-Heron Explains ‘The Revolution will not be Televised’

Gil Scott-Heron explains what he meant by the phrase “The Revolution will not be Televised”

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: One Soldier Dead, 3 Wounded, as Muslim Brotherhood Clashes with Army, Secularists in Provinces

Egypt: One Soldier Dead, 3 Wounded, as Muslim Brotherhood Clashes with Army, Secularists in Provinces

The markets in Egypt reacted with sheer joy to the Egyptian Revolution 3.0, with the Egyptian stock market rising 7% and adding billions to the […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt’s “Revocouption” and the future of Democracy on the Nile

Egypt’s “Revocouption” and the future of Democracy on the Nile

The argument over whether what happened in Egypt on Wednesday, July 3, was a coup or a revolution is really an argument over the legitimacy […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
How Unreasonable Searches of Private Documents Caused the American Revolution

How Unreasonable Searches of Private Documents Caused the American Revolution

Just FYI, the Restore the Fourth movement in defense of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is holding protests all over the US today. On […]

Juan Cole

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