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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Over 70 Killed in Mosque Bombings, northwestern Pakistan

Over 70 Killed in Mosque Bombings, northwestern Pakistan

The Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan) bombed two mosques in Pakistan’s Pashtun northwest on Friday, killing over 70 persons and wounding many others. CSM argues […]

Juan Cole

India
Bachmann Harms US Economy, Security with Scurrilous Charges about Obama in India

Bachmann Harms US Economy, Security with Scurrilous Charges about Obama in India

One of the great things about the victory of so many eccentrics in the congressional races of 2010 for bloggers is that we can look […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Threatens Egyptian, Iraqi Christians

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Threatens Egyptian, Iraqi Christians

The Guardian argues that Sunni Arab religious radicals (“al-Qaeda”) released from US or Iraqi custody in recent months have formed newly assertive cells and that […]

Juan Cole

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1942 Midterms:  Republicans win Popular Vote, Pick up 47 Seats in House; Roosevelt on Ropes; Pacific War Uncertain, Economy Slowly Improving

1942 Midterms: Republicans win Popular Vote, Pick up 47 Seats in House; Roosevelt on Ropes; Pacific War Uncertain, Economy Slowly Improving

It was November, 1942. A year earlier the Japanese Empire had struck at Pearl Harbor and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had finally entered World War […]

Juan Cole

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17 Bombings of Shiite Districts Kill 113; Fears of Sectarian Reprisals

17 Bombings of Shiite Districts Kill 113; Fears of Sectarian Reprisals

The LA Times is putting the death toll of Tuesday’s series of 17 bombings of Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad at an astonishing 113, one of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre

Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre

Iraq’s security problems continue to be severe, if not generally crippling the way they were in 2006, as underlined by Sunday’s guerrilla takeover of a […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”

Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”

My column is out at Truthdig is out, entitled “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House” Excerpt: ‘ Although Congress for the most part […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
On How War with Iran might Destroy the United States

On How War with Iran might Destroy the United States

David Broder is a respected political analyst. I once had breakfast with him and I like him. I often think his columns are on the […]

Juan Cole

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Ted Nugent vs. Jon Stewart: Fumigating the Democrat Rats vs. Can't we all Get Along?

Ted Nugent vs. Jon Stewart: Fumigating the Democrat Rats vs. Can’t we all Get Along?

There were lots of political rallies on Saturday, not just the big one on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The Rally to Restore Sanity / […]

Juan Cole

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