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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

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A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

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Islam
Are Extremist Buddhists in Burma attacking Helpless Muslims? (Walton)

Are Extremist Buddhists in Burma attacking Helpless Muslims? (Walton)

(Author title: “Matthew Walton: A Primer on the Roots of Buddhist/Muslim Conflict in Myanmar, and A Way Forward” ) Matthew J. Walton writes at ISLAMiCommentary […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Dear Royal Baby: We Americans apologize for our Revolution; please be our Absolute Monarch

Dear Royal Baby: We Americans apologize for our Revolution; please be our Absolute Monarch

Dear Royal Baby: You had an ancestor named King George III that we Americans said a lot of nasty things about, and we’d like to […]

Juan Cole

Christianity
Can Christianity Survive in the New Iraq?  (Teule)

Can Christianity Survive in the New Iraq? (Teule)

Larry McGill writes at ISLAMiCommentary Herman Teule There are sizeable Christian minorities in several Middle Eastern countries with Muslim majorities, but the numbers of Christians […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Chris Hedges: "We have shifted, I think, from a democratic state to... corporate totalitarianism."

Chris Hedges: “We have shifted, I think, from a democratic state to… corporate totalitarianism.”

Chris Hedges interviewed on The Real News : Excerpt of the transcript: “JAY: But, see, that’s what I’m concerned about as a citizen, I mean, […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Bye, Bye Florida:  Scientists find the last time it was this hot, Seas rose 65 feet

Bye, Bye Florida: Scientists find the last time it was this hot, Seas rose 65 feet

A study published in Nature Geoscience by researchers, from Imperial College London and their academic partners shows that 5-3 million years ago in the Pliocene, […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Indiana: “How do we get rid of” Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States?’

Indiana: “How do we get rid of” Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States?’

In a disturbing development, the Associated Press has revealed emails in which former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels advocated banning the use of Howard Zinn’s text, […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Syria:  Attack on Sayyida Zainab Provokes Sunni-Shiite Tensions in Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan

Syria: Attack on Sayyida Zainab Provokes Sunni-Shiite Tensions in Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan

The rocket attack on the Shrine of Sayyida Zaynab in the suburbs of Damascus on Friday has intensified the sectarian overtones of the Syrian civil […]

Juan Cole

Energy
First, Close all the Coal Plants: MIT Study Shows they Shorten Lives

First, Close all the Coal Plants: MIT Study Shows they Shorten Lives

“Data from China show that large amounts of coal emissions shorten lives”: The MIT Energy Intiative reports: ” A high level of air pollution, in […]

Juan Cole

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Annals of White Terrorism: Police Arrest Suspect in bombing of Mosque, Murder of Muslim

Annals of White Terrorism: Police Arrest Suspect in bombing of Mosque, Murder of Muslim

A British-Ukrainian suspect is being looked at for both the murder of an elderly Muslim man and several bombings outside mosques in London. Terrorism against […]

Juan Cole

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