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Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

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New Opinion Poll Results In Iraq 48

New Opinion Poll Results in Iraq: 48% View US Positively The results of an opinion poll done in 5 of Iraq’s provinces (Baghdad, Basra, Diwaniyah, […]

Juan Cole

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4 Us Soldiers Wounded Guerrillas

4 US Soldiers wounded Guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb as a US military convoy passed west of Baghdad, wounding three US soldiers on Monday. Other […]

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Clark Prescient On Nato Democratic

Clark Prescient on NATO Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark has been urging that NATO be given larger responsibilities in Iraq. AP reported that ‘Clark said […]

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Igc Complains About Announcement That

IGC Complains about Announcement that Coalition Troops will Stay The British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has now said that UK troops are likely to be […]

Juan Cole

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Baathists Being Rehabilitated To Offset

Baathists Being Rehabilitated To Offset

Baathists being Rehabilitated (to offset Shiites?) AFP (via az-Zaman) is reporting that Paul Bremer issued an order three weeks ago allowing Baath Party members to […]

Juan Cole

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Kirkuk Issue Made Complex By Turkmen

Kirkuk Issue Made Complex By Turkmen

Kirkuk Issue Made Complex by Turkmen, Kurdish Ethnic Nationalism The Turkmen representative on the Interim Governing Council, Songul Chapouk, called Monday for her hometown of […]

Juan Cole

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Resistance To Us Military Presence

Resistance to US Military Presence Continues Unabated in Iraq A reader asked me about my claim that the pace of attacks on US troops hasn’t […]

Juan Cole

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Us Soldier Shot Wounded In Tikrit On

US Soldier Shot, wounded in Tikrit On Sunday, a guerrilla in Tikrit managed to shoot and wound a US soldier while he was on foot […]

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Democratic Presidential Debate

Democratic Presidential Debate: Lieberman, Kerry slam Dean In the Democratic debate yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman slammed Howard Dean for saying that the capture of Saddam […]

Juan Cole

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