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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?
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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?

Farhang Jahanpour

One hospital in Tehran has received more than 70 corpses of demonstrators shot in the head and chest by security guards

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

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Tunisia
Tunisia:  Extremists Kill 9 Troops, Defiant Gov't Sets Dec. 17 Elections

Tunisia: Extremists Kill 9 Troops, Defiant Gov’t Sets Dec. 17 Elections

After days of demonstrations and turmoil, Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addressed the public in Tunisia on Monday. Despite calls that he resign in favor of […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egyptian Backlash against Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi’s Call for foreign Intervention in Egypt

Egyptian Backlash against Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi’s Call for foreign Intervention in Egypt

Maverick Muslim ‘televangelist’ Yusuf Qaradawi has provoked fury in many quarters of Egypt with his recent fatwas and statements on that country. Qaradawi is an […]

Juan Cole

Libya
All Hell Breaks Loose in Libya

All Hell Breaks Loose in Libya

Over the weekend, all hell broke loose in Libya, in worrying ways that suggest that the government is entering new depths of paralysis and incompetence, […]

Juan Cole

social media
Twitter Sexist Bullying:  The Criado-Perez Case (Channel 4 Video)

Twitter Sexist Bullying: The Criado-Perez Case (Channel 4 Video)

“She led the successful campaign to put a woman’s image on the [British] £10 note – but feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez has found herself the […]

Juan Cole

CIA
The Kidnapper & Torturer vs. the Whistleblower: The Gov’t’s different Treatment of Lady and Snowden (Engelhardt)

The Kidnapper & Torturer vs. the Whistleblower: The Gov’t’s different Treatment of Lady and Snowden (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: He came and he went: that was the joke that circulated in 1979 when 70-year-old former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Elbaradei, al-Azhar, Leftist Youth Condemn Excessive Force

Egypt: Elbaradei, al-Azhar, Leftist Youth Condemn Excessive Force

Egypt reacted with shock and grief to the massacre of Muslim Brothers early Sunday morning. Even figures who supported the July 3 coup such as […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Tunisia:  Government Teeters on Brink after Slain Leftist's Funeral.

Tunisia: Government Teeters on Brink after Slain Leftist’s Funeral.

An estimated 50,000 came out in Tunis for the funeral of the assassinated leftist opposition member of parliament Mohamed Brahmi, leader of the pro-worker Popular […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Thousands of Germans Protest Obama/ Merkel STASI-like Spying on Them

Thousands of Germans Protest Obama/ Merkel STASI-like Spying on Them

A few thousand people came out to demonstrate in 40 cities Germany on Saturday against US National Security Agency spying and German government complicity with […]

Juan Cole

Christianity
Fox to Reza Aslan:  Why would a Muslim write a book about Jesus?

Fox to Reza Aslan: Why would a Muslim write a book about Jesus?

Academic publishes scholarly study of the historical Jesus. Fox Cable News wants only to talk about his own religious background as a Muslim. Apparently they […]

Juan Cole

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