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Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
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Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Juan Cole

Palestinians face “criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”

Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

01/09/2026 By Juan Cole

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

01/09/2026 By Michael T. Klare

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Energy
Take that, Dennis Miller;  Climate Change is Real and Dangerous

Take that, Dennis Miller; Climate Change is Real and Dangerous

I have a bone to pick with comic Dennis Miller. We all know about his famous shift to the political right after the September 11 […]

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Afghanistan
Taliban influence Spreading in Afghanistan

Taliban influence Spreading in Afghanistan

A former Afghan warlord who turned to supporting President Hamid Karzai and two others were blown up at a soccer match in the northern city […]

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Islamophobia
Burning the Qur’an?  ‘Wherever they burn books, they will in the end Burn Human Beings’

Burning the Qur’an? ‘Wherever they burn books, they will in the end Burn Human Beings’

A tiny, fringe fundamentalist cult in Florida, of the sort that American popular Christianity specializes in producing, has announced that it will burn the Qur’an […]

Juan Cole

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July Deadliest Month ever for US troops in Afghanistan

July Deadliest Month ever for US troops in Afghanistan

Taliban killed three US troops in the Pashtun south with two bombings, bringing the death toll for July 2010 to 63, the highest since W. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Closing of the Zionist Mind

The Closing of the Zionist Mind

It finally happened. The Jerusalem Post has declared archeology itself anti-Semitic. To tell you the truth, I am frankly worried about some of my colleagues […]

Juan Cole

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Dems Souring on Afghan War as 25 Killed by Roadside Bomb in Nimroz

Dems Souring on Afghan War as 25 Killed by Roadside Bomb in Nimroz

Those opposed to President Obama´s escalation of the Afghanistan War were crestfallen when Congress approved another $33 billion in war funding. But as Richard Wolfe […]

Juan Cole

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Meyer: NY Times: Saber-rattling Against Turkey

Meyer: NY Times: Saber-rattling Against Turkey

Carlyn Meyer writes in a Guest Editorial for Informed Comment, also mirrored here: NYT Saber-Rattling Against Turkey The New York Times prides itself on being […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Cameron Calls Gaza under Israel Blockade a ‘Prison Camp’

Cameron Calls Gaza under Israel Blockade a ‘Prison Camp’

British Prime Minister David Cameron went to Turkey this week and engaged in some refreshingly blunt talk about Ankara’s application to join the European Union […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
War is Theft: Pentagon cannot account for $8.6 Billion of Iraq’s Reconstruction Funds

War is Theft: Pentagon cannot account for $8.6 Billion of Iraq’s Reconstruction Funds

The Pentagon cannot account for the over $8 bn. given out to cronies in the first years of the Iraq occupation, money which came from […]

Juan Cole

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