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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 […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

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Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate As Iraqi

Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate As Iraqi

Pachachi Envisages Triumvirate as Iraqi Executive AFP/al-Zaman report that Adnan Pachachi, the octogenarian interim president of the Iraqi Governing Council, envisages that the new transitional […]

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Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair

Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair

Hutton Inquiry Whitewashes Blair Government’s Exaggerations Seumas Milne of the Guardian argues that the report by Lord Hutton on the David Kelly affair is biased […]

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Bomb At Baghdad Hotel Kills 3 In Other

Bomb at Baghdad Hotel kills 3; In other attacks, 6 US Troops Killed, 2 CNN Employees, 4 Iraqi Policemen; 6 US troops Wounded There was […]

Juan Cole

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Humanitarian Grounds For Iraq War Re

Humanitarian Grounds for Iraq War? Re: Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth, “War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention“, 26 January 2004, Keynote essay […]

Juan Cole

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Sachedina Interview By Cobban Sistani

Sachedina Interview By Cobban Sistani

Sachedina Interview by Cobban: Sistani is Trying to Bring in the UN Helena Cobban’s interview with Shiite thinker Abdulaziz Sachedina of the University of Virginia […]

Juan Cole

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Bush Saddam Posed Grave Threat To Us

Bush: Saddam posed grave threat to US Bush maintains that despite the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Saddam Hussein posed “a […]

Juan Cole

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Breaking News Kerry Wins New Hampshire

Breaking News Kerry Wins New Hampshire

Breaking News: Kerry Wins New Hampshire Caught Kerry’s victory speech on CNN. With 73% of precincts reporting, he still has 38% of the vote, a […]

Juan Cole

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Breaking News Same As Headline Below

Breaking News Same As Headline Below

Breaking News: Same as Headline Below Still watching CNN. With 30% of precincts reporting, Kerry has a very impressive lead over Dean still. Kerry is […]

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