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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

06/18/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

06/18/2025 By The Conversation

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PRISM: The US Government is mad at Bradley Manning for doing to it what it is Doing to All of us

PRISM: The US Government is mad at Bradley Manning for doing to it what it is Doing to All of us

Bradley Manning, who spilled the beans on the US blowing away of unarmed Iraqi journalists and overlooking war crimes by the US military and allied […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Turkey: Erdogan’s Blindness to People Power will Diminish Him (IslamiCommentary)

Turkey: Erdogan’s Blindness to People Power will Diminish Him (IslamiCommentary)

Julie Poucher Harbin, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary, interviews two scholars on Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan: A small demonstration against bulldozing a park in Turkey escalated into […]

Juan Cole

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Fresh US covert Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen (Serle and Woods)

Fresh US covert Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen (Serle and Woods)

Excerpted from a report by Jack Serle and Chris Woods for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Pakistan The only drone strike reported to hit Pakistan […]

Juan Cole

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NSA-Verizon Surveillance: Welcome to the United States of Total Information Awareness

NSA-Verizon Surveillance: Welcome to the United States of Total Information Awareness

It turns out that the National Security Agency demanded and got Verizon phone records of all US telephone calls, mobile and otherwise, within the US […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Obama pledged investigation of Alleged Taliban Prisoner Massacre by US-Backed Afghan Warlords; Where is it? (Currier)

Obama pledged investigation of Alleged Taliban Prisoner Massacre by US-Backed Afghan Warlords; Where is it? (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica In his first year in office, President Barack Obama pledged to “collect the facts” on the death of hundreds, possibly […]

Juan Cole

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Bradley Manning Trial aimed at Silencing Whistleblowers?  (Democracy Now!)

Bradley Manning Trial aimed at Silencing Whistleblowers? (Democracy Now!)

Democracy Now! considers the Bradley Manning trial in the context of attempts to intimidate and punish government whistle blowers. That the world general reading public […]

Juan Cole

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Speaking of Bad Storms (editorial cartoon on GOP by Paul Jamiol)

Speaking of Bad Storms (editorial cartoon on GOP by Paul Jamiol)

by Paul Jamiol courtesy Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

Turkey

Turkey: It’s about the Right to be Different (Soysal)

Ayşe Soysal, in Istanbul, writes for ISLAMiCommentary : Ayse Soysal It was a ‘Wow!’ weekend indeed. My niece Elif, a college student, was one of […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Woman in Red (Turkish Police Spray Tear Gas on Modern Young Protester)

Woman in Red (Turkish Police Spray Tear Gas on Modern Young Protester)

(Courtesy Reuters) This young woman being teargassed at the Taksim protests in Istanbul has become an internet icon. Unveiled and bare-armed, she is clearly secular […]

Juan Cole

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