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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives
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Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

Syria faces renewed Sectarian Violence as Government Fails to deliver Inclusivity

05/14/2025 By The Conversation

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

Can we Even Remember it? How America was Disappeared before our Eyes

05/14/2025 By Karen J. Greenberg

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Energy
I want My Country back from Big Oil

I want My Country back from Big Oil

I want my country back. I want back the country of Teddy Roosevelt, who cared about our natural environment. I want back the country of […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Can “Proximity Talks” Avert Boycotts of Apartheid Israel?

Can “Proximity Talks” Avert Boycotts of Apartheid Israel?

President Obama threatened that he would take over the Israel-Palestine peace process himself, along with European allies, and recognize a Palestinian state, if Israeli-Palestinian negotiations […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Veiling ban in Belgium:  It is all about the State

Veiling ban in Belgium: It is all about the State

The bill proposing a ban on the niqab or the kind of Muslim veil that covers the entire face, passed by the lower house of […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Chaudhry:  Dis(re)membering \pä-ki-ˈstän\

Chaudhry: Dis(re)membering \pä-ki-ˈstän\

This is a guest essay by Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, University of California, Berkeley, one of our country’s foremost academic specialists in comparative politics.: “…for this […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Massive Offshore Windfarms to Power Green Germany

Massive Offshore Windfarms to Power Green Germany

Note to environmentalists: German utility corporations are building gigantic wind farms offshore that are expected to provide a quarter of Germany’s energy in coming decades. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
NATO Troops Kill MP Relative; Anti-American Demonstrations Nangarhar Demand US Withdrawal

NATO Troops Kill MP Relative; Anti-American Demonstrations Nangarhar Demand US Withdrawal

NATO forces raided the home in Nangarhar of Afghan parliamentarian Safia Siddiqi Wednesday night, in the course of which they killed her brother-in-law. In response, […]

Juan Cole

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Tehran Police Chief Cracks down on Women with Sun Tans

Tehran Police Chief Cracks down on Women with Sun Tans

The Telegraph reports that the police chief of the Iranian capital, Tehran, Brig Hossein Sajediniya, has called for a crackdown on fashionable women as part […]

Juan Cole

Energy
The Horrible Gulf Oil Spill Reality versus the Energy Tomorrow Pantsuit

The Horrible Gulf Oil Spill Reality versus the Energy Tomorrow Pantsuit

Let us contrast reality to the fantasy that Big Oil projects for us on our television screens. I have long despised the character of the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Allawi’s Secularists call for Caretaker Gov’t, New Elections

Allawi’s Secularists call for Caretaker Gov’t, New Elections

The London pan-Arab daily al-Hayat [Life] reports in Arabic that the appeals court will issue its judgment on the coming Monday, May 3, concerning whether […]

Juan Cole

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