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Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love
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Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love

Janelle Carlson

The federal government has threatened to starve Minnesota by cutting off SNAP, WIC and other USDA funded programs as retribution.

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

01/17/2026 By Human Rights Watch

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

01/17/2026 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Energy
The Tesla S and World Peace:  Can American Green Energy End the Gulf Oil Wars?

The Tesla S and World Peace: Can American Green Energy End the Gulf Oil Wars?

Petroleum makes the world go round, with 70% of it used to power automobiles. About a fifth of the world’s 90 million barrels a day […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Juan Cole: Real Petraeus Failure Was Counter-Insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan (Democracy Now!)

Juan Cole: Real Petraeus Failure Was Counter-Insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan (Democracy Now!)

Here is Amy Goodman’s interview with me, which was broadcast on Democracy Now! This morning. Via YouTube here Here is DN’s lead-in: CIA director David […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Drone, Sanctions affecting Medicine, Intensify US-Iran Tensions

Drone, Sanctions affecting Medicine, Intensify US-Iran Tensions

Among President Obama’s first decisions after his reelection was to further increase already severe sanctions on Iran. Just before that, Iran shot at a US […]

Juan Cole

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Bradley Manning would Cop to Wikileaks if Spying, Aiding Enemy charges are Dropped (DemocracyNow!)

Bradley Manning would Cop to Wikileaks if Spying, Aiding Enemy charges are Dropped (DemocracyNow!)

Mirrored from DemocracyNow! Accused U.S. Army whistleblower Bradley Manning has offered to submit a partial guilty plea on charges of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Tracking down Mubarak’s Ill-Gotten Gains (Loveluck)

Tracking down Mubarak’s Ill-Gotten Gains (Loveluck)

Louisa Loveluck writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism In Egypt’s Tahrir Square, the vast fortune of Hosni Mubarak and his inner circle was also […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
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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