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The Most American King: Interview  on Jordan with Aaron Magid
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The Most American King: Interview on Jordan with Aaron Magid

Marc Martorell Junyent

Interview with Aaron Magid, author of “The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan” – “King Abdullah is likely more beloved in Washington than inside Jordan” […]

Women, Key Players in Syria’s Revolution, are being Marginalized

Women, Key Players in Syria’s Revolution, are being Marginalized

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Trump’s Terrorism against the Planet

Trump’s Terrorism against the Planet

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Assassinations of High Officials; 36 Killed, Wounded in Baghdad; Iraqiya Rebuffs al-Maliki

Assassinations of High Officials; 36 Killed, Wounded in Baghdad; Iraqiya Rebuffs al-Maliki

Signs that things weren’t that calm in Baghdad on Wednesday: Guerrillas assassinated Colonel Abdul Kareem Muhsin, the director of the protection department in the ministry […]

Juan Cole

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Appeasement Breaks out Everywhere

Appeasement Breaks out Everywhere

After all that trouble George W. Bush caused with his foolish speech before the Israeli Knesset condemning negotiation with bad guys, it turns out that […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Poll: Americans Want their Iraq News

Poll: Americans Want their Iraq News

The Zogby news release, below, about a new poll demonstrates that Informed Comment is giving the American people what they want in the way of […]

Juan Cole

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Reuters/Zogby: Obama Opens up 10 Point Lead on McCain

Reuters/Zogby: Obama Opens up 10 Point Lead on McCain

Zogby Polling has permitted the reprinting of the below. What I take away from it is that in a four-way race Nader would hurt Clinton […]

Juan Cole

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American Idol and American Politics

American Idol and American Politics

I find it a little eerie how closely the finale of the television program American Idol resembles the presidential race. Here you have an older […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
4 Awakening Council Members Killed; Iraqi Army enters Sadr City; Provincial election Date provokes Row

4 Awakening Council Members Killed; Iraqi Army enters Sadr City; Provincial election Date provokes Row

The Iraqi Army moved into part of Sadr City without meeting resistance on Tuesday, according to McClatchy. Raheem Salman of LAT blogs the scene in […]

Juan Cole

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Kennedy Diagnosed with Brain Tumor

Kennedy Diagnosed with Brain Tumor

Best wishes to Ted Kennedy and his family in the aftermath of his diagnosis with brain cancer. Analysts are pointing out that the Democrats need […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
11 Police Killed in North; Police Chief Killed Near Nasiriya; IIP Demands Written Apology over Qur’an

11 Police Killed in North; Police Chief Killed Near Nasiriya; IIP Demands Written Apology over Qur’an

Sunni Arab guerrillas attacked a bus in northern Iraq on Monday, killing 11 persons, the policemen aboard and their driver. The attack may have been […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Flashback: Bush's 2000 Speech

Flashback: Bush’s 2000 Speech

Flashback: Bush’s 2000 Republican Convention speech in retrospect:

Juan Cole

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