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Trump set off a Bomb in the Cockpit of the World Economy; Does Global Recession Loom?
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Trump set off a Bomb in the Cockpit of the World Economy; Does Global Recession Loom?

Juan Cole

Today’s increase was different, since the price skyrocketed fully 30% in one day, something that hasn’t happened for decades

A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk

A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk

03/09/2026 By Tomdispatch

The War on Iran — and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

The War on Iran — and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

03/09/2026 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Top Ten Most Popular Informed Comment Postings, 2012

Top Ten Most Popular Informed Comment Postings, 2012

It has been an incredible year, with the Republican presidential primary, the mass shootings in Aurora, Wisconsin and at Newtown, Mass.; the attack on the […]

Juan Cole

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7 Ways States have Undermined Gun Control Laws (Lee)

7 Ways States have Undermined Gun Control Laws (Lee)

Suevon Lee writes at ProPublica: Friday’s deadly rampage at a Connecticut elementary school marked the 13th mass shooting in the United States this year. Among […]

Juan Cole

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As Jews, with our own Painful History of Oppression… [South African Jewish Statement on Palestinians]

As Jews, with our own Painful History of Oppression… [South African Jewish Statement on Palestinians]

I got this by email and thought it worth sharing. It further makes the point, signalled by Peter Beinart and others, that the Likud, Israel […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
How America is Filling up itself and the World With Guns

How America is Filling up itself and the World With Guns

The American obsession with guns and violence is not unique, but it is distinctive. The US ranks 12th in the world for rate of firearm-related […]

Juan Cole

CIA
What Happens in Langley Doesn’t Stay in Langley Anymore: How our Spies Came out of the Shadows (Engelhardt)

What Happens in Langley Doesn’t Stay in Langley Anymore: How our Spies Came out of the Shadows (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: Weren’t those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game?  Governments went down in Guatemala and […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Let's also Remember the 176 children Killed by US Drones

Let’s also Remember the 176 children Killed by US Drones

The US government continues to rain drones down on the tribal belt of Pakistan. While the Washington narrative is that these drones are precision machines […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Top Ten Threats to the Legitimacy of Egypt's new Constitution

Top Ten Threats to the Legitimacy of Egypt’s new Constitution

Early returns from the Egyptian provinces that voted in a two-stage referendum on Saturday suggest that the draft constitution garnered some 56% of the vote. […]

Juan Cole

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European Human Rights Court finds CIA Guilty of Torture

European Human Rights Court finds CIA Guilty of Torture

For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights has found the US Central Intelligence Agency guilty of torturing and sodomizing an innocent man. […]

Juan Cole

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Firearms used in 300,000 crimes a year in US (Poster)

Firearms used in 300,000 crimes a year in US (Poster)

reprint edn. Some 300,000 violent crimes are committed each year in the US with the aid of a firearm.. One of the arguments for not […]

Juan Cole

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