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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

09/19/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Afghanistan
Bombings in Pakistan Kill over 100, as Shiites are Targeted

Bombings in Pakistan Kill over 100, as Shiites are Targeted

Pakistan on Thursday descended into the kind of violence that tends to occur in Iraq, with a distinct Sunni-Shiite cast to it. But the larger […]

Juan Cole

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How Zero Dark Thirty Taught us to Stop Worrying and Love Torture (Greenberg)

How Zero Dark Thirty Taught us to Stop Worrying and Love Torture (Greenberg)

Karen J. Greenberg writes at Tomdispatch.com On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Cole : "The Syrian Regime Will Likely Fall, but it Could Take Time" (WorldView Show)

Cole : “The Syrian Regime Will Likely Fall, but it Could Take Time” (WorldView Show)

I was interviewed by Denis G. Campbell of the UK Progressive for his internet news and affairs program, the WorldView Show, and the exchange has […]

Juan Cole

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8,775 Firearm Murders a Year in US, Equiv. of 290 in UK

8,775 Firearm Murders a Year in US, Equiv. of 290 in UK

Updated. 2013 Reprint edn. Number of Murders, United States, 2010: 12,996 Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2010: 8,775 Number of Murders, Britain, 2011*: 638 […]

Juan Cole

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Alex Jones, Gun control, and White Terrorism

Alex Jones, Gun control, and White Terrorism

Alex Jones’s angry appearance on Piers Morgan’s CNN interview show on Tuesday has provoked a lot of discussion, but what strikes me is that Jones […]

Juan Cole

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Fundraiser Thanks

Fundraiser Thanks

I cannot thank enough the hundreds of supporters who donated or proffered a voluntary subscription to Informed Comment this year! We had an ambitious goal, […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan:  The End of America’s Longest War?

Afghanistan: The End of America’s Longest War?

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington for talks with the Obama administration on the gradual draw down of foreign troops from his country over […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Wikileaker Bradley Manning "Illegally Punished," 4 months off Life Sentence

Wikileaker Bradley Manning “Illegally Punished,” 4 months off Life Sentence

A military judge has found that Bradley Manning, who released large numbers of low-classified State Department cables to Wikileaks, was illegally punished while in the […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Frankenyear 2012:  Hottest on Record, as US emits 5 bn tons of CO2 Annually

Frankenyear 2012: Hottest on Record, as US emits 5 bn tons of CO2 Annually

Can we sue the Koch brothers and all the other dirty-energy, climate change-denying moguls yet for the billions they are costing us in climate disasters […]

Juan Cole

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