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Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus

Juan Cole

An Israeli police statement blamed the demonstrators, saying that they had disturbed the peace, closed off streets, damaged buses

With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical

With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical

01/07/2026 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Trump’s War on Women: Bodies, Roles, and Futures at Risk

Trump’s War on Women: Bodies, Roles, and Futures at Risk

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Domestic Crusaders and Islamophobia in Literature

Domestic Crusaders and Islamophobia in Literature

McSweeney’s is publishing Wajahat Ali’s important Muslim-American play: ‘ The Domestic Crusaders focuses on a day in the life of a modern Muslim Pakistani-American family […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
NIE Questions Progress in Afghanistan

NIE Questions Progress in Afghanistan

Congress has been briefed on a new National Intelligence estimate on Afghanistan that is said to throw cold water on the idea that the US […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Israel’s Nukes Destabilizing to Region (Wikileaks)

Egypt: Israel’s Nukes Destabilizing to Region (Wikileaks)

Whenever any US official says that Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program is destabilizing the Middle East by posing a proliferation problem, I wince. A civilian […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Karzai Wishes he had Joined Taliban

Karzai Wishes he had Joined Taliban

Rajiv Chandrasekaran of WaPo gets the scoop. His sources say that at a high level meeting in October, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Karl Eickenberry […]

Juan Cole

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Former CIA Official Ray McGovern Defends Assange

Former CIA Official Ray McGovern Defends Assange

Former high-ranking CIA official Ray McGovern denounces smear campaign against Julian Assange of Wikileaks

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Fareed Zakaria Destroys Beck on Lunatic Islamophobia

Fareed Zakaria Destroys Beck on Lunatic Islamophobia

On his indispensable television news magazine, GPS, Fareed Zakaria demolishes Glenn Beck’s mind-numbingly stupid assertion that ten percent of Muslims are terrorists. Zakaria’s courage in […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Enormous Truck Bomb Kills 6 US Troops in Afghanistan as Constitutional Crisis Looms

Enormous Truck Bomb Kills 6 US Troops in Afghanistan as Constitutional Crisis Looms

The NYT reports that the Taliban deployed a massive truck bomb against a joint US-Afghan National Army forward operating base in the Arghandab river valley […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Visser:  Spin-Doctors and the Changing Nature of Imperial Power in Iraq

Visser: Spin-Doctors and the Changing Nature of Imperial Power in Iraq

Reidar Visser writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Treaties, Acronyms and Spin-Doctors: The Changing Nature of Imperial Power in Iraq In the 1920s, […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Cardinal Ratzinger Moderated Opposition to Turkey Joining Europe on Becoming Pope: Wikileaks

Cardinal Ratzinger Moderated Opposition to Turkey Joining Europe on Becoming Pope: Wikileaks

The Guardian reports on wikileaks cables regarding the position of the Catholic Church on Europe’s Christian character and its unease with Turkey joining the EU. […]

Juan Cole

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