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Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis
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Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

09/14/2025 By Human Rights Watch

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

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More Than 35 Killed By Iraqi

More Than 35 Killed By Iraqi

More than 35 Killed by Iraqi Guerrillas US Kills 40 Fighters with Missile Strike CBC/AP reports: The new wave of violence began Friday evening when […]

Juan Cole

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Cole On Iraq 2002 2003 By Way It Has

Cole On Iraq 2002 2003 By Way It Has

Cole on Iraq, 2002-2003 By the way, it has been alleged by some of my detractors that I supported the Iraq War. Someone wrote me […]

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5 Marines Killed 4 Wounded 21 Bodies

5 Marines Killed 4 Wounded 21 Bodies

5 Marines Killed, 4 Wounded 21 Bodies Found Sunnis Reject offer on Constitutional Committee Guerrillas killed 5 Marines near Haqlaniyah in Anbar Province on Thursday. […]

Juan Cole

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Attacks In Yusufiyah Mosul Kut Islamic

Attacks In Yusufiyah Mosul Kut Islamic

Attacks in Yusufiyah, Mosul, Kut Islamic Parties Meet to Shape the Constitution A vehicle accident near Hit in Iraq left a Marine dead on Wednesday, […]

Juan Cole

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Piles Of Smoking Guns Kind Readers

Piles Of Smoking Guns Kind Readers

Piles of Smoking Guns Kind readers have drawn my attention to other leaked documents on the British side that lend support to the implications of […]

Juan Cole

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Downing Street Memo And Fixing Around

Downing Street Memo And Fixing Around

The Downing Street Memo and “Fixing Around” At least one commentator has been quoted in the press as questioning what British Intelligence chief Richard Dearlove […]

Juan Cole

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Hersh On Journalism And Internet

Hersh On Journalism And Internet

Hersh on Journalism and the Internet Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh is interviewed in The Guardian. He has some canny comments on journalism and blogging. […]

Juan Cole

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Revenge Of Baghdad Bob Revenge Of

Revenge Of Baghdad Bob Revenge Of

The Revenge of Baghdad Bob “The Revenge of Baghdad Bob” is my current piece in Salon.com about the bizarrely unrealistic assessments of the Iraq War […]

Juan Cole

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Talabani And Al Hakim Call For Role

Talabani And Al Hakim Call For Role

Talabani and al-Hakim Call for Role for Shiite, Kurdish Paramilitaries 4 US Soldiers Killed Guerrillas killed 4 US servicemen on Wednesday in separate incidents. Other […]

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