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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

Mitchell Zimmerman

Kristi Noem’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence

A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

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Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

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The Republican Assault on Minority Voting Rights (Goulka)

The Republican Assault on Minority Voting Rights (Goulka)

Jeremiah Goulka writes at Tomdispatch.com Of Republicans and Race Cards: Why I Used to Believe That Voter ID Laws Really Were Just Common Sense Democrats […]

Juan Cole

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Pakistan: Imran Khan’s march brings global attention to CIA drone strikes (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: US peace activists joined politicians, lawyers and the world’s press on Sunday as they attempted […]

Juan Cole

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Turkey Slams UN on Syria, Implies NATO should Act; Syria bans Turkish Airlines

Turkey Slams UN on Syria, Implies NATO should Act; Syria bans Turkish Airlines

Tensions between Turkey and Syria are at an all-time high, with the two countries trading occasional light artillery barrages at the border and massing tanks […]

Juan Cole

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Conservative Media Spin Biden-Ryan Debate (Young Turks)

Conservative Media Spin Biden-Ryan Debate (Young Turks)

The Young Turks program on Current TV discusses the conservative spinning of the Biden-Ryan debate. No, CNN, Ryan did not win the debate (you over-represented […]

Juan Cole

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On Libya, Biden Let Ryan Get Away with Murder (Smith)

On Libya, Biden Let Ryan Get Away with Murder (Smith)

Fact-Check: Is Obama’s Foreign Policy “Unraveling”? by Christopher C. Smith In Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate, Paul Ryan claimed that the recent terrorist attack on the […]

Juan Cole

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US Classifies Torture Testimonies of accused al-Qaeda Prisoners (Currier)

US Classifies Torture Testimonies of accused al-Qaeda Prisoners (Currier)

Still Classified: Terror Suspects’ Own Accounts of Their Abuse by Cora Currier, writing at ProPublica In a motion unsealed last week, the government proposed new […]

Juan Cole

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A Post-Mortem on Muslim Rage:  What did the reaction to the Islamophobic Trailer Really Tell Us? (Abootalebi)

A Post-Mortem on Muslim Rage: What did the reaction to the Islamophobic Trailer Really Tell Us? (Abootalebi)

Ali R. Abootalebi writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Today’s journalism and social media, with their increasingly short news cycles, are good at […]

Juan Cole

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The Shameful Politicization of the Benghazi Consulate Attack

The Shameful Politicization of the Benghazi Consulate Attack

The Tea Party Congress, having, with Paul Ryan’s leadership, deeply cut funds for embassy security, held a hearing on Wednesday on the circumstances of the […]

Juan Cole

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Colbert Report:  Romney gives Americans ‘Vague, Long-winded Threats’ as Foreign Policy (Video)

Colbert Report: Romney gives Americans ‘Vague, Long-winded Threats’ as Foreign Policy (Video)

Stephen Colbert reviews Mitt Romney’s speech on foreign policy and concludes that he knows what Americans want: Vague, long-winded threats and “four more wars.” Colbert […]

Juan Cole

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