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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

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The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

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The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Terrorism

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Terrorism

At the Global Affairs group blog, Farideh Farhi tells us how Tehran is reacting to the Bush adminstration’s threat to declare sections of the Iranian […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
War in a Time of Cholera

War in a Time of Cholera

Violence at Karbala, Baghdad, Falluja dogged the al-Maliki government on Monday, while the significance of the agreements reached by the presidential council on national reconciliation […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Churchill on When to Throw in the Towel on Iraq

Churchill on When to Throw in the Towel on Iraq

Glenn Greenwald once remarked that “the highest achievement to which one can aspire in the neocon universe it to be compared to Winston Churchill.” So […]

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Williams Guest Op-ed: W. and Graham Greene

Williams Guest Op-ed: W. and Graham Greene

John S. Williams writes: “One of the most curious comments in Incurious Boy George’s recent speech before the Veterans of Foreign War in Kansas City […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Al-Maliki Threatens Journalists Al-Hashemi Plays Hard to Get

Al-Maliki Threatens Journalists Al-Hashemi Plays Hard to Get

Al-Maliki tells off US pols., threatens journalists with libel lawsuits. A hint to Mr. al-Maliki: This kind of shrillness does not look prime ministerial and […]

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Iraq
Who is the US Fighting in Iraq?

Who is the US Fighting in Iraq?

Who exactly is the US fighting in Iraq? Graphed by self-confessed identity of captives, it is largely Sunni Arab Iraqis, often motivated primarily by the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Lessons from Past Western Incursions in the Middle East

Lessons from Past Western Incursions in the Middle East

The video of my appearance at the New America Foundation is now online. Many thanks again to kind host Steve Clemons. The short version, covering […]

Juan Cole

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Rubin on Narcotics in Afghanistan

Rubin on Narcotics in Afghanistan

At the Global Affairs group blog, Barnett Rubin gives us the second in a series of three posts on the effort to confront narcotics production […]

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Iraq
Surge in Deaths 85 percent in US custody Are Sunni Arabs

Surge in Deaths 85 percent in US custody Are Sunni Arabs

The Bush administration talking points on the Iraq War are that the troop escalation has reduced violence and made Iraq safer for Iraqis, that the […]

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