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Trump set off a Bomb in the Cockpit of the World Economy; Does Global Recession Loom?
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Trump set off a Bomb in the Cockpit of the World Economy; Does Global Recession Loom?

Juan Cole

Today’s increase was different, since the price skyrocketed fully 30% in one day, something that hasn’t happened for decades

A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk

A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk

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The War on Iran — and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

The War on Iran — and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

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Abu Ghuraib Redux Arabic Satellite

Abu Ghuraib Redux Arabic Satellite

Abu Ghuraib Redux The Arabic satellite television programs showed the new Abu Ghuraib pictures repeatedly late last week, and they provoked a new round of […]

Juan Cole

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Blogging Fallujah And Us Air War

Blogging Fallujah And Us Air War

Blogging Fallujah, and the US Air War against Iraqi Civilians Thomas E. Ricks has a characteristically piercing examination of the way in which a single […]

Juan Cole

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Arabkurdish Sunnishiite Violence

Arabkurdish Sunnishiite Violence

Arab/Kurdish, Sunni/Shiite Violence Flares, Killing Dozens The violence in Iraq on Saturday, which killed at least 40 and wounded many more, was particularly worrying because […]

Juan Cole

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30 Killed In Tsunami Of Attacks Arab

30 Killed In Tsunami Of Attacks Arab

30 Killed in Tsunami of Attacks Arab satellite stations are reporting mortar attacks on the Green Zone in Baghdad (where the US embassy and government […]

Juan Cole

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Hollowness Of War On Terror Madrid Hit

Hollowness Of War On Terror Madrid Hit

Hollowness of War on Terror: Madrid hit Again Madrid was thrown into chaos on Friday when the Basque separatist organization ETA set off five bombs […]

Juan Cole

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Card Wins Legal Action Against Pipes

Card Wins Legal Action Against Pipes

Card wins Legal Action against Pipes Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer settled a libel suit out of court with University of Oregon instructor Douglas Card. […]

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More Violence In Iraq Associated Press

More Violence In Iraq Associated Press

More Violence in Iraq Associated Press reports that the fortified Green Zone (US offices and Iraqi government buildings) in Baghdad took heavy mortar fire on […]

Juan Cole

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Psy Ops And News Los Angeles Timess

Psy Ops And News Los Angeles Timess

Psy-Ops and News The Los Angeles Times’s Mark Mazetti writes about a US military psy-ops campaign against the guerrillas in Fallujah in mid-October, in which […]

Juan Cole

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Election News Al Hayat Says That Sunni

Election News Al Hayat Says That Sunni

Election News Al-Hayat says that the Sunni tribal shaikhs with whom Prime Minister Iyad Allawi met in Jordan on Thusday pleaded with him to postpone […]

Juan Cole

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