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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

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Kabul Bombing of US Bus Leaves 13 Dead

Kabul Bombing of US Bus Leaves 13 Dead

The Taliban claimed credit for a bombing of a bus in Kabul, which killed 13 US security personnel (apparently 5 US troops and 8 security […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Why a No-Fly Zone won’t Work in Syria

Why a No-Fly Zone won’t Work in Syria

Syrian troops fired into peaceful demonstrations in Hama and Homs on Friday. Repression of protests yesterday is estimated to have cost 40 lives. The BBC […]

Juan Cole

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Justin Bieber on Sen. Klobuchar’s Criminalization of the Internet: She should be put away in Cuffs

Justin Bieber on Sen. Klobuchar’s Criminalization of the Internet: She should be put away in Cuffs

Justin Bieber went off on Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Friday, slamming her proposed legislation imposing criminal penalties for copyright violations on the internet and […]

Juan Cole

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Political Pluralism breaks out in Tunisia

Political Pluralism breaks out in Tunisia

Tunisia’s election outcome gives 41% to the Muslim fundamentalist party Al-Nahda. One of the other two winners is the Rally for the Republic– of long-time […]

Juan Cole

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Sefat: Top 10 ways OWS can Excel: Counsel from Iran’s Green Movement

Sefat: Top 10 ways OWS can Excel: Counsel from Iran’s Green Movement

Kusha Sefat writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Following the disputed Presidential election in Iran, our Western compatriots gave many suggestions on combating […]

Juan Cole

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If American Land were Distributed the way American Wealth Is

If American Land were Distributed the way American Wealth Is

The Congressional Budget Office confirms that the top 1% has tripled its income since 1979, while the upper middle class has increased its wealth much […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Is Syria in Civil War?

Is Syria in Civil War?

Robert Fisk uses the “C” word about Syria– Civil War. He takes seriously both the human rights organizations’ allegation that the regime has killed some […]

Juan Cole

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Grossman:  Call your Congressman and Save International Studies in the US!

Grossman: Call your Congressman and Save International Studies in the US!

The current House of Representatives don’t hold with Amurkins knowin’ ’bout furriners, and seems determined to defund federal support for international studies in the US. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Islamic Law not a problem in Bush’s Afghanistan & Iraq, but a Problem in Libya?

Islamic Law not a problem in Bush’s Afghanistan & Iraq, but a Problem in Libya?

George W. Bush said of Iraq and Afghanistan,, “I’d like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people…” The 2004 Constitution […]

Juan Cole

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