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Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan

Juan Cole

Andersen said, “I mean, you can’t really fathom that this is actually something that is being said out loud. It just seems too crazy.”

“We Ran from Monsters:” Germany now deporting Yazidi Refugees from ISIL to Limbo

“We Ran from Monsters:” Germany now deporting Yazidi Refugees from ISIL to Limbo

01/24/2026 By The Conversation

Judge Stops Trump from Deporting Noncitizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

Judge Stops Trump from Deporting Noncitizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

01/24/2026 By Middle East Studies Association

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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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Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.;  Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!

Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.; Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!

A notorious polluting coal plant has finally been closed in Alexandria, Va. It had been giving locals lung and heart problems for years. Ironically, the […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?

Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?

The polemicists of the fringe left and the far right who depict the Baathist regime in Syria as a beleagured victim of Western plotting may […]

Juan Cole

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