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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*
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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

08/27/2025 By Juan Cole

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

08/27/2025 By Andrea Mazzarino

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Iraq
Hard Of Hearing When It Comes To Saudis

Hard Of Hearing When It Comes To Saudis

Hard of Hearing when it Comes to the Saudis Iraqslogger discovers that the State Department suddenly can’t hear very well when the Saudi foreign minister […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Al Anbar Resident Approval Of Sunni

Al Anbar Resident Approval Of Sunni

Al-Anbar Residents approve of Sunni withdrawal Remember all that reporting about “progress” against “al-Qaeda” in al-Anbar Province? But for Sunni Arab Iraqis to hate the […]

Juan Cole

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Arc Of Crisis Panel At Yearly Kos Heres

Arc Of Crisis Panel At Yearly Kos Heres

Candidates at Yearly Kos Reactions to Arc of Crisis Panel Alas, although I heard the Democratic candidates for president at Yearly Kos and attended the […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
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

Iraq
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 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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