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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Egypt
The New Muslim World: Dictators on Trial

The New Muslim World: Dictators on Trial

The Muslim world has now witnessed several instances of a former dictator being exiled under threat of prosecution or actually being forced to appear in […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Small Government: Texas Fertilizer Plant that blew up not inspected for years

Small Government: Texas Fertilizer Plant that blew up not inspected for years

The Texas fertilizer plant that suffered a massive explosion had not been subject to an OSHA inspection for many years. The current American obsession with […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
CNN Fail:  Imaginary “Dark Males,” “Accents,” and “Arrests” Haunt Reporters

CNN Fail: Imaginary “Dark Males,” “Accents,” and “Arrests” Haunt Reporters

Between about 1:00 pm and 2:40 pm ET on Wednesday, April 17, the CNN news team was at the worst I’ve ever seen them. The […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Top Ten Ways Islamic Law forbids Terrorism

Top Ten Ways Islamic Law forbids Terrorism

Erik Rush and others who hastened to scapegoat Muslims for the Boston Marathon bombing are ignorant of the religion. I can’t understand why people who […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Can the Boston Bombings increase our Sympathy for Iraq and Syria, for all such Victims?

Can the Boston Bombings increase our Sympathy for Iraq and Syria, for all such Victims?

The horrific bombings of the Boston Marathon produced inspiring images of a spirited, brave Boston refusing to be cowed. Some spectators surged forward toward the […]

Juan Cole

Iran
How Washington Dropped the Ball on N Korean Nukes while Obsessing about Iran (McShane)

How Washington Dropped the Ball on N Korean Nukes while Obsessing about Iran (McShane)

Michael McShane writes in a guest column for Informed Comment In a recent article published in the Wall Street Journal, Jay Solomon highlighted the disproportionate […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Israel at 65: Welcome to the Neighborhood (Map)

Israel at 65: Welcome to the Neighborhood (Map)

Satire Israel (in red) is welcomed into the Muslim Middle East in 2013 Zionism: The theory that because murderous Nazis hated Jews in the 1930s […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Gun “Control” “Legislation,” Parodied by Saturday Night Live

Gun “Control” “Legislation,” Parodied by Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live satirizes the minimalism of the gun registration bill proposed by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Class Hatred and Bad Memories of Thatcher

Class Hatred and Bad Memories of Thatcher

The hatred for the late Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, among a broad segment of the British public has manifested itself in visible and […]

Juan Cole

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