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Dr. King would be Standing beside All Who are now Standing up for Our Democracy
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Dr. King would be Standing beside All Who are now Standing up for Our Democracy

Mitchell Zimmerman

A member of the Freedom Movement reflects on Dr. King’s legacy in our perilous times

Protesting the Unprecedented Lethal State Violence against Protests by the Islamic Republic of Iran

Protesting the Unprecedented Lethal State Violence against Protests by the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Trump’s Comic Book Foreign Policy

Trump’s Comic Book Foreign Policy

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Pakistan
Fundamentalist Rally Bombed in Pakistan, Kills two Dozen

Fundamentalist Rally Bombed in Pakistan, Kills two Dozen

Two bombings shook the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing 27 and wounding over 50 persons. Ironically, one bomb hit a rally of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Anzalone:  The Death of a Caliph

Anzalone: The Death of a Caliph

In a guest opinion piece for Informed Comment, Christopher Anzalone asks if the Reported Killings of the Islamic State of Iraq’s two senior Leaders spell […]

Juan Cole

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Why Economic Sanctions on Iran will Fail

Why Economic Sanctions on Iran will Fail

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said at Columbia U. that a military strike on Iran over its nuclear enrichment activities would be […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Gates Worries about Iranian Nuclear Research, while Khamenei blasts US for Hiroshima

Gates Worries about Iranian Nuclear Research, while Khamenei blasts US for Hiroshima

David Sanger of the New York Times gets the scoop– that US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates sent the White House a memo last January […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei:  US ‘only’ ‘nuclear criminal’ for Hiroshima

Khamenei: US ‘only’ ‘nuclear criminal’ for Hiroshima

The USG Open Source Center translates the speech on Saturday of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to the attendees of a nuclear security conference in Tehran. […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Differences between Mir Hosain Mousavi and Lady Gaga

Top Ten Differences between Mir Hosain Mousavi and Lady Gaga

Satire alert. Time magazine’s publicists inform me that there is a duke-out going on between Lady Gaga fans and those of Iranian Green Movement leader […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Afghanistan Attacks Leave 13 Dead

Afghanistan Attacks Leave 13 Dead

Attacks in Afghanistan left 13 dead and many more wounded on Thursday. A suicide car bombing near an Afghanistan National Army base in Qandahar left […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Florida Times-Union on Engaging the Muslim World

Florida Times-Union on Engaging the Muslim World

The Florida Times-Union has an editorial today on the US and the Muslim world (and American Muslims) that draws on my most recent book, Engaging […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Wright: Assassinations Strengthen Religious Terrorist Groups

Wright: Assassinations Strengthen Religious Terrorist Groups

Robert Wright argues that not only is assassination (including by drone) legally and ethically troubling, but there is reason to think that it is counterproductive […]

Juan Cole

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