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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad
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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – Osamah F. Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard […]

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

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Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

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Iraqi Hopes for US Troop Withdrawal

Iraqi Hopes for US Troop Withdrawal

One of the things that struck me about Friday night’s debate on the time line for troop withdrawal was that McCain appeared to believe that […]

Juan Cole

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Palin Says She did Not Have Money to Travel in Youth; But She went to College in Hawaii!

Palin Says She did Not Have Money to Travel in Youth; But She went to College in Hawaii!

On seeing this part of the Couric interview of Palin, I suddenly remembered something about her: ‘ Couric: In preparing for this conversation, a lot […]

Juan Cole

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Debate Fact Check 5

Debate Fact Check 5

About that claim by McCain that he warned about the mortgage crisis: McCain: “But — but let me — let me point out, I also […]

Juan Cole

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Debate Fact Check 3

Debate Fact Check 3

Did Henry Kissinger advise direct talks with Iran at the highest levels? Yes. Kissinger gave an interview with Bloomberg Television News Service on March 14, […]

Juan Cole

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Debate fact-check 2: The Surge

Debate fact-check 2: The Surge

In the debate, McCain promised ‘victory’ in Iraq and praised the surge. First of all, it isn’t ‘victory’ if Baghdad’s best hospital doesn’t even have […]

Juan Cole

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Fact-Checking 1

Fact-Checking 1

Fact-checking the debate (transcript available here). For Pakistan and the controversy over McCain’s ridiculous assertion that Pakistan was a ‘failed state’ in 1999 when Musharraf […]

Juan Cole

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Debate Fact Check 4

Debate Fact Check 4

McCain said in the debate: ‘ So we have a long way to go in our intelligence services. We have to do a better job […]

Juan Cole

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CBS Poll of Independents: Obama Won

CBS Poll of Independents: Obama Won

Keith Olbermann just read out the results of a snap poll of 500 uncommitted voters commissioned by CBS News just after Friday night’s presidential debate: […]

Juan Cole

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Palin’s Russian Roulette

Palin’s Russian Roulette

On being a Russia expert by virtue of contiguity: “We have trade missions back and forth,” Palin told Couric. “We, we do, it’s very important […]

Juan Cole

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