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Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran
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Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran

Juan Cole

How the Ghost of Renee Nicole Good Haunts Trump’s Response to Iran’s Protests

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

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Iran regime: A Plato’s Republic thought experiment gone too far?

Iran regime: A Plato’s Republic thought experiment gone too far?

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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, […]

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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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Controversial, Not Controversial (Brennan v. Hagel, Big Oil v. Solar & other Media Hypocrisies)

Controversial, Not Controversial (Brennan v. Hagel, Big Oil v. Solar & other Media Hypocrisies)

Not controversial: John Brennan: Served in CIA during the torture program, designed the current US drone program that has extra-judicially killed hundreds, including children and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Climate Change is turning Australia Purple with Blazing Heat

Climate Change is turning Australia Purple with Blazing Heat

The heat wave or “dome of heat” afflicting Australia may produce a record temperature of over 122 degrees F. (over 50 degrees C.). For temperatures […]

Juan Cole

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