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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

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Real News: Do the Taliban Represent the Pashtuns?

Real News: Do the Taliban Represent the Pashtuns?

The Real News has a good video series entitled, “Do the Taliban represent the Pashtuns?” This is the sort of information US corporate media almost […]

Juan Cole

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Mahsud Dead; Marjah Residents Refuse to Flee ahead of Assault

Mahsud Dead; Marjah Residents Refuse to Flee ahead of Assault

A US and another NATO soldier were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday. On the other side of the border, Pakistani Taliban sources announced that their […]

Juan Cole

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Salehi: Iran would back Down if West supplies LEU; Khamenei vows self-defense against ‘US-backed saboteurs’

Salehi: Iran would back Down if West supplies LEU; Khamenei vows self-defense against ‘US-backed saboteurs’

The USG Open Source Center translated remarks of Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, regarding Sunday’s announcement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad […]

Juan Cole

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More Nuclear Scaremongering about Iran from Clinton; Neocons Quake at Ahmadinejad threat to make . . . gasp . . . Medical Isotopes

More Nuclear Scaremongering about Iran from Clinton; Neocons Quake at Ahmadinejad threat to make . . . gasp . . . Medical Isotopes

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engaged in some fearmongering on Iran on Sunday on Candy Crowley’s CNN magazine show, State of the Union. Here is […]

Juan Cole

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Saying ‘Constitution’ while meaning ‘Lawlessness’: Palin attacks Obama

Saying ‘Constitution’ while meaning ‘Lawlessness’: Palin attacks Obama

Sarah Palin’s turn before the teabaggers was an exercise in emptying the US Constitution of meaning while seeming to exalt it. She praised US military […]

Juan Cole

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Thousands Flee Marja Area as NATO Prepares Campaign; Anti-American Rally in Kapisa

Thousands Flee Marja Area as NATO Prepares Campaign; Anti-American Rally in Kapisa

Agence France Presse reports that thousands of Afghans are fleeing an anticipated NATO/Afghan (mainly British) campaign against the Taliban stronghold of Marja, a city of […]

Juan Cole

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Undoing Lex Luthor

Undoing Lex Luthor

The red increase in job loss is the climax of Republican White House control. The blue decrease in job loss is Obama and the Democrats. […]

Juan Cole

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Reading cuts stress levels by 68%

Reading cuts stress levels by 68%

Reading cuts stress levels by 68% | Health news | Marie Claire Well now we’ve solved the difference in approach to the world of Barack […]

Juan Cole

40-Day Mourning Sessions targeted by Sunni Radicals in Karbala, Karachi

40-Day Mourning Sessions targeted by Sunni Radicals in Karbala, Karachi

The 40th day mourning ceremonies after the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad) in 680 CE was marred […]

Juan Cole

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