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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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Pakistani Protests Against Obama

Pakistani Protests Against Obama

Pakistani Protests against Obama; Clinton leaves Nukes on the Table; Tancredo an Inspiration to the Criminally Insane that They, Too, Could run for President I’m […]

Juan Cole

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Shiite Militia Attacks On Us And

Shiite Militia Attacks On Us And

Shiite Militia Attacks on US and British Troops;The Kurds and the Kirkuk Crisis Remember that spate of newspaper stories about July seeing the lowest number […]

Juan Cole

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Cole Interview From Yearly Kos

Cole Interview From Yearly Kos

Cole Interview from Yearly Kos An interview with me at Josh Marshall’s Talkingpointsmemo from the Yearly Kos conference. (Top video frame.) Thanks to Josh’s staff […]

Juan Cole

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News From Yearly Kos Yearly Kos

News from Yearly Kos The Yearly Kos netroots convention is celebrating grassroots democratic activism. The Sun-Times covers the events Thursday evening. Howard Dean spoke with […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Us And Iraq Troops Are Mounting Major

Us And Iraq Troops Are Mounting Major

13 Killed in Hibhib US-Iraqi Operation in Samarra’ US and Iraq troops are mounting a major operation in the northern Sunni Arab city of Samarra, […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Sunni Arab Withdrawal From Al Maliki

Sunni Arab Withdrawal From Al Maliki

Sunni Arab Withdrawal from Al-Maliki Government The USG Open Source Center analyzes the recent withdrawal of the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accord Front from the al-Maliki […]

Juan Cole

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Quote Of Day Major Power Can Afford

Quote Of Day Major Power Can Afford

Quote of the Day “A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.” – Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Juan Cole

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April 12 2007 Destruction Of Sarafiya

April 12 2007 Destruction Of Sarafiya

April 12, 2007 Destruction of Sarafiya Bridge, Baghdad My American readers often tell me that they have difficulty gauging the scale of death and destruction […]

Juan Cole

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142 Dead In Heat Wave Of Violence 5_02

142 Dead In Heat Wave Of Violence 5_02

142 Dead in Campaign of Violence 5 Coalition Troops Announced Killed Sunni Arabs Withdraw from Government The Associated Press reported that 142 Iraqis were killed […]

Juan Cole

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