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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America
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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America

Juan Cole

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

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The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

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Qaddafi's Bombardments Recall Mussolini's

Qaddafi’s Bombardments Recall Mussolini’s

The strafing and bombardment in Tripoli of civilian demonstrators by Muammar Qaddafi’s fighter jets on Monday powerfully recalled the tactics of some decades ago of […]

Juan Cole

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The Gates of Hell Have Opened in Tripoli

The Gates of Hell Have Opened in Tripoli

I am watching Aljazeera Arabic, which is calling people in Tripoli on the telephone and asking them what is going on in the capital. The […]

Juan Cole

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Revolutionary Situation in Libya

Revolutionary Situation in Libya

After the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi fell to the protest movement on Sunday, clashes broke out in the Libyan capital of Tripoli late that […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Alimagham:  What Egypt & Tunisia Tell us About Iran

Alimagham: What Egypt & Tunisia Tell us About Iran

Pouya Alimagham writes in a guest column for Informed Comment What the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions Tell Us about Iran There has been much debate […]

Juan Cole

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Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests

Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests

5. Dear right wing blogosphere and also Bill Maher: You can’t generalize about women’s position in Muslim countries based on a reprehensible mob attack on […]

Juan Cole

Yemen
Days of Rage in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain

Days of Rage in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain

ITN has video on Friday’s dramatic protests in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain (for the latter scroll down). Some 80 protesters have been killed in the […]

Juan Cole

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50,000 Protest in Bahrain Before Another Bloody Crackdown

50,000 Protest in Bahrain Before Another Bloody Crackdown

Breaking News: Bahrain security forces appear to have run out of ammunition at the downtown Pearl Roundabout, as thousands of Shiite protesters flooded in Saturday […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq Roiled by Protests, 2 Killed in Sulaimaniya

Iraq Roiled by Protests, 2 Killed in Sulaimaniya

What I can’t understand is, if the American Right Wing were correct that George W. Bush was ‘right’ in trying to kick start democracy in […]

Juan Cole

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Bahrain Shiites Withdraw from Parliament, Call for King's Overthrow

Bahrain Shiites Withdraw from Parliament, Call for King’s Overthrow

Members of parliament from the Shiite Wifaq Party, which had 18 of 40 seats in the lower house of the Bahrain legislature, have resigned en […]

Juan Cole

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