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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 […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

09/20/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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On Malala Day, Pakistani Girls chant "I am Malala"

On Malala Day, Pakistani Girls chant “I am Malala”

Pakistan, and people around the world, commemorated yesterday as “Malala Day”, in honor of Malala Yusufzai, who was shot in the head by a Taliban […]

Juan Cole

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Companies are Mining your Facebook/ Twitter Info… and Selling it (Beckett)

Companies are Mining your Facebook/ Twitter Info… and Selling it (Beckett)

Lois Beckett writes at ProPublica Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Real Petraeus Issue was Evaluation of Afghanistan

Real Petraeus Issue was Evaluation of Afghanistan

Maybe it is because I was brought up in part in Europe, but I just cannot understand American puritanism’s obsession with public officials’ private lives. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Can Afghan Troops Hold the Line as US Withdraws, and Will US Seek to Stay in Central Asia?

Can Afghan Troops Hold the Line as US Withdraws, and Will US Seek to Stay in Central Asia?

Aljazeera English does what so few US networks are bothering to do: It sends a correspondent to cover the take-over of forward operating bases in […]

Juan Cole

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Karl Rove’s Math that mades Republicans Feel Better until Reality Set In (Daily Show Video)

Karl Rove’s Math that mades Republicans Feel Better until Reality Set In (Daily Show Video)

Jon Stewart skewers the fantasyland in which Fox Cable Mews guests seem to live in, in which Mitt Romney was headed for a landslide despite […]

Juan Cole

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Karl Rove’s Regret (Jamiol Cartoon)

Karl Rove’s Regret (Jamiol Cartoon)

From Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
America’s Coming Space Wars (McCoy)

America’s Coming Space Wars (McCoy)

Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch.com Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power It’s 2025 and an American “triple […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Why Bill O'Reilly is Wrong about Minorities 'Wanting Things" & the Election

Why Bill O’Reilly is Wrong about Minorities ‘Wanting Things” & the Election

Bill O’Reilly set the frame for an “angry white male” understanding of the bath Mitt Romney took at the polls Tuesday night, even before it […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama

Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama

President Obama’s reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has […]

Juan Cole

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