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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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Poll:  Obama better Represents America!

Poll: Obama better Represents America!

We can pronounce the long GOP campaign to frame Barack Obama as somehow ‘foreign’ as complete failure. In a new Reuters/Ipsons Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,600 […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Top Seven Errors President Obama has made on the Middle East

Top Seven Errors President Obama has made on the Middle East

Yesterday I explored the errors and fantasies in Gov. Mitt Romney’s WSJ op-ed on the Middle East. Here I will briefly go over the mistakes […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Tom Ricks and The Generals: Why the US succeeded in WWII but not Since

Tom Ricks and The Generals: Why the US succeeded in WWII but not Since

Tom Ricks, award-winning military journalist, gives the Nimitz Lecture on why the US military succeeded in WW II but had so much trouble in the […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (283) “Last night I wandered into a dark pottery workshop”

Omar Khayyam (283) “Last night I wandered into a dark pottery workshop”

Last night I wandered into a  dark pottery workshop and saw  about two thousand pots lined up in silence. But then suddenly  a vase cried out, […]

Juan Cole

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Annals of Settler Colonialism: British Atrocities in Post-War Kenya

Annals of Settler Colonialism: British Atrocities in Post-War Kenya

The anti-colonial movement in Kenya of the 1950s was mythologized by the British as a shadowy ‘Mau-Mau,’ an irrational outbreak of aimless hatred. In fact, […]

Juan Cole

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What Juan is Tweeting Today (Readings on Middle East, Environment)

What Juan is Tweeting Today (Readings on Middle East, Environment)

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Things Mitt Romney Gets Wrong about US Middle East Policy

Top Ten Things Mitt Romney Gets Wrong about US Middle East Policy

Gov. Romney published an op-ed on Monday criticizing President Obama’s Middle East policies. Aside from urging ‘strength,’ however, Romney offers no concrete alternative. And, he […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (337) “I venerate the finest vintage so as to avoid self-worship”

Omar Khayyam (337) “I venerate the finest vintage so as to avoid self-worship”

I sip at wine, but never to get drunk, and I assail no one, save for my  glass. I venerate the finest vintage so as […]

Juan Cole

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite

In an early instance of Neoliberalism, the German concentration camps for the remnants of the genocided Herero were sometimes given to private companies to run […]

Juan Cole

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