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How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied
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How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied

Juan Cole

Occupied people do not have rights, and they do not even have the right to have rights. They are lesser.

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

01/25/2026 By The Conversation

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

01/25/2026 By Prism

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Big Bird and the Romney Games (Cartoon)

Big Bird and the Romney Games (Cartoon)

Juan Cole

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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

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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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