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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Top Ten Ways Pope Francis heralds the Emergence of Global South

Top Ten Ways Pope Francis heralds the Emergence of Global South

The selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as the new pope signals the first time the Roman Catholic Church has been headed by […]

Juan Cole

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What the US invasion felt like to Iraqis (Kukis)

What the US invasion felt like to Iraqis (Kukis)

Journalist Mark Kukis (Time magazine correspondent in Iraq 2006-2009) writes in a guest piece for Informed Comment Iraqis have a phrase they use to describe […]

Juan Cole

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Amazing Social Media Facts 2013 (video)

Amazing Social Media Facts 2013 (video)

Social media facts 2013, by the numbers:

Juan Cole

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Falsity of Nuclear Accusation against Iraq Was Known before Bush’s Invasion

Falsity of Nuclear Accusation against Iraq Was Known before Bush’s Invasion

As we approach the ten year anniversary of the launching of George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, it is worth my pointing out that I […]

Juan Cole

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Bradley Manning Explains his Leaks in his own Voice in new Tape (Goodman)

Bradley Manning Explains his Leaks in his own Voice in new Tape (Goodman)

Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! airs excerpts from a leaked interview in which Bradley Manning for the first time since his arrest can be heard explaining […]

Juan Cole

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Everybody Leaks in Washington: What the Bradley Manning Trial Tells us about a Broken System (Schanzer)

DAVID SCHANZER writes at ISLAMiCOMMENTARY When you cut through the bluster and controversies surrounding the Bradley Manning/Wikileaks case, it raises a difficult unresolved question that […]

Juan Cole

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Syrian Regime running out of Troops as Britain Threatens to arm Rebels

Syrian Regime running out of Troops as Britain Threatens to arm Rebels

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday that he would veto the renewal of a European Union ban on weapons exports to Syria, and hinted […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Pakistan, Iran defy US Sanctions to Inaugurate Gas Pipeline

Pakistan, Iran defy US Sanctions to Inaugurate Gas Pipeline

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Pakistani president Asaf Ali Zardari on Monday inaugurated a gas pipeline that will supply Pakistani cities with Iranian natural gas. […]

Juan Cole

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Uh, Segregated Buses aren't the Issue on the West Bank, Folks

Uh, Segregated Buses aren’t the Issue on the West Bank, Folks

Russia Today reports on the controversy over Israel’s segregated bus lines for Palestinians coming in and out of the West Bank. UAE’s The National has […]

Juan Cole

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