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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

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Fallujah Report And

Fallujah Report And

The Fallujah Report and the Liberal/Conservative Divide The “Fallujah Report” prepared by the Marines concerning their enemies in the most recent big campaign is now […]

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Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish Writer

Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish Writer

Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish writer Sabah Salih has an interesting piece on the way the image of the Kurds has changed among European leftists from that […]

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Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq 5 Us

Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq 5 Us

Fresh Wave of Violence in Iraq 5 US troops Killed The relentless guerrilla war continued apace in Iraq on Sunday. AFP reported that guerrillas killed […]

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Henry Siegman In New York Review Of

Henry Siegman in the New York Review of Books Amid the unwarranted outbreak of optimism about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the wake of Yasser Arafat’s […]

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Shock Of Week Liberals In Liberal Arts

Shock Of Week Liberals In Liberal Arts

Shock of the Week: Liberals in Liberal Arts George Will’s column this week is unusually unreflective. I don’t often agree with Will, but he is […]

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Elections In Iraq Will Be Held On

Elections In Iraq Will Be Held On

Elections in Iraq will be Held on Schedule, But with What Result? Or, how Khatami and Krauthammer are Both Wrong At least 12 persons died […]

Juan Cole

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Supporting Nawal Saadawi Al Hayat On

Supporting Nawal Saadawi Al Hayat On

Supporting Nawal Saadawi Al-Hayat on Saturday ran an attack from a Muslim fundamentalist point of view on Egyptian novelist Nawal Saadawi. She recently argued that […]

Juan Cole

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Things Are Not What They Seem

Things Are Not What They Seem

Things are Not What they Seem Department On Thursday night on the David Letterman Late Night show on CBS, actress Natalie Portman announced that she […]

Juan Cole

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Election Plans Roiled Sunni Extremist

Election Plans Roiled Sunni Extremist

Election Plans Roiled Sunni Extremist Death Threats against Sistani Hamza Hendawi of AP reports that the Shiite vote may get split. He says that Prime […]

Juan Cole

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