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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

06/08/2025 By The Conversation

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We’ve been hurt before: Jon Stewart on Obama’s Renewed Pledge on Guantanamo

We’ve been hurt before: Jon Stewart on Obama’s Renewed Pledge on Guantanamo

Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on President Obama’s renewed push to close the illegal Guantanamo prison camp. Limbo Update America wanted to believe Barack Obama’s […]

Juan Cole

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Syria's Neighbors have Rising Anxiety about Crisis (Three Aljazeera Videos)

Syria’s Neighbors have Rising Anxiety about Crisis (Three Aljazeera Videos)

Turkey is strategizing how to limit the impact of the Syria war on Turkey. Ankara is particularly concerned by the emergence of a relatively autonomous […]

Juan Cole

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Bad Camel

Bad Camel

Bad camel sticks head through window of family car, delights little girl no end by licking whole top of her head.

Juan Cole

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Our Terror:  US Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, April 2013:

Our Terror: US Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, April 2013:

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism surveys US covert drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen for April, 2013 Pakistan April 2013 actions The US launched two […]

Juan Cole

Energy
The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World

The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World

Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain, […]

Juan Cole

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Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)

Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)

Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com: More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything […]

Juan Cole

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Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria

Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria

After President Obama’s remarks about chemical weapons use in Syria, many newspaper articles appeared suggesting that he was rethinking his opposition to US involvement there. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession

Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession

Secretary of State John Kerry has wrung a concession from the Arab League, which now says that some minor changes in the 1967 border between […]

Juan Cole

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After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)

After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)

As deaths in the Bangladesh textile factory fire mount to over 400, on May Day workers demand they be afforded as many legal protections as […]

Juan Cole

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