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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring
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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring

Mohammed Samaana

Israel and its hard line supporters have long relied on weaponizing charges of antisemitism to silence critics

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

03/06/2026 By Juan Cole

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

03/06/2026 By Al-Shabaka

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Top Ten Things Mitt Romney's Insults to Spain tell us About Him

Top Ten Things Mitt Romney’s Insults to Spain tell us About Him

Mitt Romney has caused a tiff with Spain by saying that its economic crisis was caused by government over-spending and saying he doesn’t want the […]

Juan Cole

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Sunday Afternoon Reading on the Exciting Middle East

Sunday Afternoon Reading on the Exciting Middle East

Juan Cole

Energy
California gasoline crisis shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars

California gasoline crisis shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars

The Big Oil lobby is always talking about how unreliable wind and solar energy are. They say the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and […]

Juan Cole

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Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)

Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)

At first I thought that this late 2010 map of Facebook network connections left the Arab world blank. But I zeroed in, and Tunis, Alexandria […]

Juan Cole

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Half of All Solar Panels are in Germany (Video)

Half of All Solar Panels are in Germany (Video)

Video report on how exactly Germany’s renewable energy revolution has worked. From Renewable Energy Magazine

Juan Cole

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2012 Rumble/ Debate between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart (Video)

2012 Rumble/ Debate between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart (Video)

The 2012 Rumble (debate) between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart: Best line: ‘Why should anyone vote for President Obama again?” Jon Stewart: “There are only […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (336)

Omar Khayyam (336)

I know the outside  of being and nothingness, and I know the inside  of the high and the low. Even so, I should be ashamed  […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Imran Khan Protest Convoy Against US Drones Heads toward Waziristan, Pakistan

Imran Khan Protest Convoy Against US Drones Heads toward Waziristan, Pakistan

Charismatic Pakistani opposition politician, Imran Khan, set out Saturday from Islamabad in a motorized convoy for a mobile protest by his Justice Party against continued […]

Juan Cole

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Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn't Work (Young Turks)

Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn’t Work (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur explains Romney’s apparent debate strategy, and explain why the media’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand approach obscures how outrageous the strategy is. Cenk has some fun […]

Juan Cole

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