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Stephen Colbert and I:  The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship
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Stephen Colbert and I: The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. Paramount owns […]

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

07/19/2025 By Arzu Geybullayeva

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

07/19/2025 By The Conversation

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Top 5 Dangers that the Syria Conflict could Destabilize its Neighbors

Top 5 Dangers that the Syria Conflict could Destabilize its Neighbors

Aljazeera English (below) asks whether the Syria crisis will spill over onto neighbors and what impact it may have on the region. Aljazeera English reports: […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (73)

Omar Khayyam (73)

Clouds rolled in  and wept tears on the field. Without wine, purple flowers cannot grow. The greenery provides  pleasant scenery for me today. For whose […]

Juan Cole

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Happy Palestine Land Day:  Israel Earmarks 10% of West Bank for Settlements: White

Happy Palestine Land Day: Israel Earmarks 10% of West Bank for Settlements: White

Ben White writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment: It has just come out that the Israeli military has earmarked ten percent of the […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: John Feffer, Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art of Acting Muslim

Tomgram: John Feffer, Islamophobia, Obama, and the Art of Acting Muslim

Those who fervently believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim generally practice their furtive religion in obscure recesses of the Internet…

Juan Cole

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Divided Arab League Won't Call for al-Assad to Step Down

Divided Arab League Won’t Call for al-Assad to Step Down

The Arab League is meeting in Baghdad for the first time in 22 years, in the absence of long-time fixtures such as Zein El Abidin […]

Juan Cole

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Scalia and the Uninsured Children (Cartoon)

Scalia and the Uninsured Children (Cartoon)

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (96):  Against Astrology

Omar Khayyam (96): Against Astrology

The good and bad that are in human nature, the joy and grief that are in fate and destiny– do not attribute them to the […]

Juan Cole

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Medvedev slams Romney for “Number one Enemy” Slur

Medvedev slams Romney for “Number one Enemy” Slur

Below, the USG Open Source Center translates an article from Russian about President Dmitry Medvedev’s reaction to Mitt Romney calling Russia the “number one geopolitical […]

Juan Cole

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