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Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran
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Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran

Juan Cole

How the Ghost of Renee Nicole Good Haunts Trump’s Response to Iran’s Protests

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

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Iran regime: A Plato’s Republic thought experiment gone too far?

Iran regime: A Plato’s Republic thought experiment gone too far?

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Musharraf Places Benazir Under House Arrest; Moderate Daily Slams US on Iraq

Musharraf Places Benazir Under House Arrest; Moderate Daily Slams US on Iraq

Pakistani dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf has ordered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto of the Pakistan People’s Party placed under house arrest at her residence in Islamabad. […]

Juan Cole

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Napoleon, Spukt, and Cole in Chicago at Oobleck

Napoleon, Spukt, and Cole in Chicago at Oobleck

Theater Oobleck presents a conversation with Juan Cole of the “Informed Comment” blog and Chuck Mertz of the This is Hell radio program, to follow […]

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The Choice in Pakistan is Democracy or Talibanization: Guest Op-ed by Shahin M. Cole

The Choice in Pakistan is Democracy or Talibanization: Guest Op-ed by Shahin M. Cole

Shahin M. Cole, Esq., writes: ‘I am one of those Pakistan-trained lawyers you have been hearing about. I have spent the last few days watching […]

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Suggested Reading

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Barnett Rubin warns that knee-jerk support for Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf is not exactly ‘realism’ of the sort some Washington politicians like to boast […]

Juan Cole

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Major Bombing of KDP HQ in Kirkuk 12 Dead; 14% of Iraqis Displaced

Major Bombing of KDP HQ in Kirkuk 12 Dead; 14% of Iraqis Displaced

14 percent of Iraqis are now displaced from their homes. That would be the equivalent of 42 million Americans forced from their places of residence. […]

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Extremists Expand in Swat Bhutto, Iftikhar Call for Rallies Media Defiant

Extremists Expand in Swat Bhutto, Iftikhar Call for Rallies Media Defiant

While the Pakistani military is bothering innocent human rights activists and attorneys who want to defend the country’s constitution, it is ignoring Muslim radicals’ advances […]

Juan Cole

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Massive Bombing in Afghanistan Kills 50, including 6 MPs

Massive Bombing in Afghanistan Kills 50, including 6 MPs

In a further sign that the Bush-imposed order in Afghanistan (and the Middle East) is unraveling, a suicide bomber in Baghlan near Kabul unleashed a […]

Juan Cole

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2007 Deadliest Year Yet for US Troops 30 Bodies found in Tharthar Shiite on Shiite Tensions in South

2007 Deadliest Year Yet for US Troops 30 Bodies found in Tharthar Shiite on Shiite Tensions in South

2007 will be the deadliest year yet for US troops in Iraq. Seven American soldiers were killed on Monday alone, bringing this year’s total to […]

Juan Cole

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Cole in Salon on Bush and Musharraf’s Grand Illusion

Cole in Salon on Bush and Musharraf’s Grand Illusion

My article on the Pakistan crisis, “Bush and Musharraf’s Grand Illusion,” is now available online. Excerpt: ‘ In the fall of 1999, as he campaigned […]

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