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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change
Acidification of Oceans

Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change

Juan Cole

the “residents of Bonaire were wrongly treated differently from residents of the European Netherlands.”

Trump’s Iraq election threats could end up making Maliki more popular

Trump’s Iraq election threats could end up making Maliki more popular

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Reading Obituaries: And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump

Reading Obituaries: And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump

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Brother Sun

Brother Sun

Implementing solar power in the greater Mediterranean, with the Sahara generating Germany’s energy, may contribute to Middle East peace.

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6000 Muslim Clerics Endorse Fatwa against terrorism

6000 Muslim Clerics Endorse Fatwa against terrorism

Some 6,000 Muslim clerics from around India have endorsed a formal legal ruling or fatwa condemning terrorism. There have been many such endorsements, as I […]

Juan Cole

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Palin Attacks Provoked Assassination Plots on Obamas

Palin Attacks Provoked Assassination Plots on Obamas

Unnamed Secret Service field officers have revealed to the press that Sarah Palin’s attacks on President-Elect Obama provoked numerous white supremecist assassination plots against him: […]

Juan Cole

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Ramadi Bombings Kill 8; Shiite Clerics Condemn Draft Security Agreement

Ramadi Bombings Kill 8; Shiite Clerics Condemn Draft Security Agreement

Two suicide bombers struck at a village near Ramadi in al-Anbar Province on Saturday, killing 8 and wounding 27. Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that officials […]

Juan Cole

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Obama and Iran

Obama and Iran

President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that “Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon, I believe is unacceptable. . . Iran’s support of terrorist organizations, I think […]

Juan Cole

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Rather on the Broken US News Industry

Rather on the Broken US News Industry

Dan Rather blames the decline of television news in the US on media consolidation and the corporate bottom line. Rather prescribes greater courage on the […]

Juan Cole

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Can Obama Get out of Iraq in 16 Months? Bombings Shake Baghdad

Can Obama Get out of Iraq in 16 Months? Bombings Shake Baghdad

The daily bombings in Baghdad that appear to signal a resurgence of the guerrilla movement continued on Thursday, with three bombings in the capital killing […]

Juan Cole

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Monsters on Television

Monsters on Television

Paul Krugman, among my favorite political commentators, has spoken forthrightly of how during the past few years we have had “monsters” in office, naming Tom […]

Juan Cole

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Karzai: President Obama, Stop this Bombing

Karzai: President Obama, Stop this Bombing

Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on president-elect Barack Obama to reverse the increasing US and NATO dependence on air strikes to combat anti-government guerrillas. The […]

Juan Cole

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