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War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza
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War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza

Peter G. Prontzos

This week marks 80 years since the United States used its nuclear weapons against the civilian population of Japan in August 1945. Prior to that, […]

Wildfire Season is starting Weeks earlier in California – a new Study shows how Climate Change is driving the Expansion

Wildfire Season is starting Weeks earlier in California – a new Study shows how Climate Change is driving the Expansion

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Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril (HRW)

Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril (HRW)

08/08/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Rick Warren: "I love Muslims . . . I happen to love Gays and Straights"

Rick Warren: "I love Muslims . . . I happen to love Gays and Straights"

I was in Long Beach,Ca. on Saturday for the annual conference of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, where Pastor Rick Warren and I were both […]

Juan Cole

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Ghoul’s Glossary: Shoewhack

Ghoul’s Glossary: Shoewhack

Shoewhack (v.) To assault someone with footwear in such a way as to humiliate that individual, especially at a moment of supposed triumph or obvious […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Parliament Defeats Bill on Foreign Troop Presence in 2009

Iraqi Parliament Defeats Bill on Foreign Troop Presence in 2009

The Iraqi parliament has rejected a draft bill submitted by the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki specifying the rules under which some 4,000 British […]

Juan Cole

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Officials Charged with Spying* Released

Officials Charged with Spying* Released

The employees of the Interior and Defense ministries who were arrested earlier this week were released on Friday at the insistence of Interior Minister Jawad […]

Juan Cole

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Bakshi: Polarization Breeds Terrorism

Bakshi: Polarization Breeds Terrorism

Gitanjali Bakshi writes in a guest op-ed for IC: “The Mumbai attacks and a potential resurrection of the ‘War on Terror’ threaten to polarize the […]

Juan Cole

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Top 10 Reasons Obama Should Resist Military Plans for American Bases in Iraq

Top 10 Reasons Obama Should Resist Military Plans for American Bases in Iraq

I present below the top 10 reasons for which President-Elect Obama should stick to his guns and withdraw US troops from Iraq despite any resistance […]

Juan Cole

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Kurds Object to Iraqi Army in Diyala; Ninevah Seeks to Postpone Elections

Kurds Object to Iraqi Army in Diyala; Ninevah Seeks to Postpone Elections

The Ninevah Provincial Council has voted to delay provincial elections, scheduled for January 31. The council does not actually have the authority to delay the […]

Juan Cole

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18 Dead, Dozens Wounded in Baghdad Bombings; Coup Plot Foiled; US Fires on Fallujah Shoe-Throwers

18 Dead, Dozens Wounded in Baghdad Bombings; Coup Plot Foiled; US Fires on Fallujah Shoe-Throwers

The news from Iraq on Wednesday shows that the Iraqi government’s hold on power is fragile, and that it faces shadowy coup plotters from within […]

Juan Cole

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Al-Zaidi, Injured, Pleads Guilty; Mosul Still in Turmoil

Al-Zaidi, Injured, Pleads Guilty; Mosul Still in Turmoil

Iraqi journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi suffered, according to his brother, “suffered a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding, as well as an eye injury” and […]

Juan Cole

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