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First Circuit Judges Strike down Israel Lobby Suit against MIT for Permitting Gaza Protests
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First Circuit Judges Strike down Israel Lobby Suit against MIT for Permitting Gaza Protests

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Erik Uebelacker at Courthouse News Service reports that a three-judge appeals panel of the US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, […]

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International Activists confront Israeli impunity in the West Bank

International Activists confront Israeli impunity in the West Bank

10/26/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

How Wildfires and other Climate Disasters put Health Systems under extreme Pressure

How Wildfires and other Climate Disasters put Health Systems under extreme Pressure

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You are the Terrorist (Video)

You are the Terrorist (Video)

“You are the Terrorist” German with English subtitles; chilling.

Juan Cole

Turkey
Learning the Wrong Lessons from Tahrir Square:  Erdogan Assaults Taksim in bid to break up Protests

Learning the Wrong Lessons from Tahrir Square: Erdogan Assaults Taksim in bid to break up Protests

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday launched an assault on the demonstrators in Taksim Square. It was a puzzling and desperate act, which threatened […]

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Afghanistan
The Government Endangered us with Foreign Quagmires; it’s the Bradley Mannings that might keep us safe (Madar)

The Government Endangered us with Foreign Quagmires; it’s the Bradley Mannings that might keep us safe (Madar)

Chase Madar writes at Tomdispatch.com The prosecution of Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks’ source inside the U.S. Army, will be pulling out all the stops when it calls […]

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US politics
The Dictator: Imagine if America was a Dictatorship (Video)

The Dictator: Imagine if America was a Dictatorship (Video)

The Dictator: Imagine if America was a dictatorship:

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Great Moments in Police Clearing of Protesters: Zucotti Park, Nov. 15, 2011 (Democracy Now! Video)

Great Moments in Police Clearing of Protesters: Zucotti Park, Nov. 15, 2011 (Democracy Now! Video)

Democracy Now! was the only media to do an extensive on the scene video report: “>

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US politics
Top Ten Ways the US Government will Smear, Slight Whistleblower Edward Snowden

Top Ten Ways the US Government will Smear, Slight Whistleblower Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden said that he stepped forward because he came to realize that the US government is engaged in invasions of Americans’ privacy on a […]

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US politics
Turning the Tables on the Surveillance Class (Cole on Majority Report)

Turning the Tables on the Surveillance Class (Cole on Majority Report)

Here are part 1 and part 2 of Michael Brooks’s interview of me on Sam Seder’s Majority Report on Monday. Part 1: and Part 2:

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Turkey
Police Clear Taksim Square: Turkey's Protests and the Neoliberal Market (Cole interview)

Police Clear Taksim Square: Turkey’s Protests and the Neoliberal Market (Cole interview)

Update On Tuesday morning, police in Istanbul moved on protesters at Taksim Square, using teargas and water cannon to clear them out. Police began dismantling […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Its the Corporations, Stupid:  Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count

Its the Corporations, Stupid: Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is interpreted by lawmakers and judges in an absolute manner. Every American, we are constantly told– even mentally ill […]

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