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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

Mitchell Zimmerman

Kristi Noem’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence

A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

01/16/2026 By Binoy Kampmark

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

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Ron Paul on Iran; Ahmadinejad has Jewish Heritage

Ron Paul on Iran; Ahmadinejad has Jewish Heritage

International Atomic Energy Agency official Mohammad Elbaradei arrived in Tehran on Saturday to begin making preparations for the inspection of Iran’s new nuclear research facility […]

Juan Cole

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Russia, China, Satisfied with 10/1/09 Talks

Russia, China, Satisfied with 10/1/09 Talks

The US plan to place further sanctions on Iran for its nuclear energy research program may founder at the United Nations Security Council because of […]

Juan Cole

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Obama pwns Bush-Cheney on Iran; First day of Talks Yields Significant Confidence-Building Steps

Obama pwns Bush-Cheney on Iran; First day of Talks Yields Significant Confidence-Building Steps

For 8 years, Bush-Cheney practiced what I call “belligerent Ostrichism” toward Iran. They refused to talk to Tehran. They wanted to ratchet up sanctions on […]

Juan Cole

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Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the US, other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with […]

Juan Cole

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Obama Meets Advisers on Afghanistan; Ismail Khan Warns against US Troop Surge

Obama Meets Advisers on Afghanistan; Ismail Khan Warns against US Troop Surge

President Barack Obama met Wednesday afternoon for 3 hours with his advisers on the Afghanistan war, including VP Joe Biden and, by teleconference, Gen. Stanley […]

Juan Cole

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Cole on KCRW and Iran and an Israeli Attack

Cole on KCRW and Iran and an Israeli Attack

I was on the KCRW in Los Angeles’s “To the Point” on Wednesday discussing the Iranian nuclear program and the prospects of an Israeli attack […]

Juan Cole

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So Long Iraq

So Long Iraq

Daniel Graeber covers the debate about Iraq on university campuses and finds that attention has largely turned elsewhere. And, indeed, even Gen. Ray Odierno, who […]

Juan Cole

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Bombings at Qandahar kill over 30, wound 40; NATO convoy Attacked; ISI Backs Karzai

Bombings at Qandahar kill over 30, wound 40; NATO convoy Attacked; ISI Backs Karzai

A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday morning. There are reportedly casualties but early reports did not […]

Juan Cole

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IRGC Air Force Commander: Missile Tests Defensive; Pledges Iran to ‘No First Strike"

IRGC Air Force Commander: Missile Tests Defensive; Pledges Iran to ‘No First Strike"

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, reaffirmed Monday that a date would soon be set for the International Atomic Energy Agency […]

Juan Cole

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