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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Glenn Beck’s ‘I have a Dream Speech’

Glenn Beck’s ‘I have a Dream Speech’

This is the ‘I have a Dream Speech’ that Glenn Beck would give at the Lincoln Memorial if he were being completely honest. I am […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban Attack 2 US Bases

Taliban Attack 2 US Bases

Taliban attacked two US forward operating bases on Saturday a day after home-made bombs killed 3 US soldiers. The Afghan Persian press reports that NATO […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Another 500,000 Flee Indus Breaches<br/> Taliban threaten Aid Workers; <br/> Global Warming Implicated

Another 500,000 Flee Indus Breaches
Taliban threaten Aid Workers;
Global Warming Implicated

The raging, swollen Indus River abruptly breached an embankment in the Thatta district in Sindh, Pakistan, on Wednesday evening, unexpectedly sending flood waters toward the […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Kurashige:  The Islamic Center and the “Pearl Harbor” Analogy

Kurashige: The Islamic Center and the “Pearl Harbor” Analogy

Scott Kurashige writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment: In May 2007, George W. Bush welcomed Queen Elizabeth II to the White House, hosting […]

Juan Cole

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Islamophobe Slasher taunted Cabbie with Rightwing Talking Points before Stabbing Him

Islamophobe Slasher taunted Cabbie with Rightwing Talking Points before Stabbing Him

Amy Goodman interviews a close friend of stabbing victim Ahmad Sharif on Michael Enright’s attack on him. Enright asked a lot of questions, including whether […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Maddow on Manhattan Mosque

Maddow on Manhattan Mosque

Rachel Maddow talks to Sohail Khan of the Conservative Inclusion Coalition about the most embarrassing non-Justin Bieber related obsession of today, the rightwing campaign against […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
64 Dead, 274 Wounded in Iraq War on Police

64 Dead, 274 Wounded in Iraq War on Police

On Wednesday, the Sunni Arab guerrilla insurgency of Iraq demonstrated it is alive and able to plan and carry out a nation-wide set of terrorist […]

Juan Cole

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Poison Gas Sickens School Girls in Kabul

Poison Gas Sickens School Girls in Kabul

What appears to be a Taliban poison-gas attack has sickened 60 girls at a school in Kabul, though most were quickly discharged from hospital and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Nakhai: Bushehr Plant Going Hot

Nakhai: Bushehr Plant Going Hot

Nuclear engineer Behrad Nakhai writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment A brief overview of Bushehr nuclear power plant startup (Simplified) Finally, nuclear fuel […]

Juan Cole

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