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Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
Donald Trump

Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the three criminal […]

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

07/01/2025 By The Conversation

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

07/01/2025 By Andrew J. Bacevich

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (3)

Omar Khayyam (3)

This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; its a shame that not one of […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Thomas Frank, Why the Tea Party Needs Mitt

Tomgram: Thomas Frank, Why the Tea Party Needs Mitt

Still, my advice to you idealists of the right is this: get over it. Not for sell-out reasons like: Romney has the best chance of beating Obama. No. You should get behind the charging Massachusetts RINO (your favorite term for a Republican-In-Na…

Juan Cole

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Dear Republican Candidates, You Have us all Wrong

Dear Republican Candidates, You Have us all Wrong

Dear Republican candidates: You are campaigning on talking points that do not actually appeal to us. Why are you doing that? Who told you we […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (2) [Whinfield 1]

Omar Khayyam (2) [Whinfield 1]

At dawn a shout     awoke us in      that watering hole… you crazed         carousing             drunk! Get up and grab that bottle    let’s finish what we started […]

Juan Cole

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Why the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Victory at the Polls May not be Decisive

Why the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Victory at the Polls May not be Decisive

The Muslim Brotherhood received a little over a third of the votes in the third round of elections for the lower house of parliament. Since […]

Juan Cole

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World’s Stupidest Guerrillas Kill over 70 Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq

World’s Stupidest Guerrillas Kill over 70 Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq

Guerrillas in Iraq staged a serious of bloody bombings targeting Shiites on Thursday. Shiite Muslims are on the move, meeting and going on pilgrimage to […]

Juan Cole

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Jahanpour:  As US and Iran Confront Each other, where is the Diplomacy?

Jahanpour: As US and Iran Confront Each other, where is the Diplomacy?

Dr. Farhang Jahanpour writes in a guest column for Informed Comment : The war of words between Iran and the West has reached dangerous proportions, […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Buying Congress in 2012

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Buying Congress in 2012

My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve — dangerously naïve…

Juan Cole

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Turkey Warns against Sunni-Shiite Civil War in Mideast

Turkey Warns against Sunni-Shiite Civil War in Mideast

Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu Ahmet Davutoglu warned Wednesday in Tehran against a Sunni-Shiite civil war in the Middle East, which he said was being encouraged […]

Juan Cole

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