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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

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Iraqi Joke About Capture Of Saddam Ash

Iraqi Joke About Capture Of Saddam Ash

Iraqi Joke about the Capture of Saddam Ash-Sharq al-Awsat says the following is making the rounds in Baghdad: ‘Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, the former Information Ministry […]

Juan Cole

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Rumors Of Iran Connection To Arrest Of

Rumors Of Iran Connection To Arrest Of

Rumors of Iran Connection to Arrest of Saddam Questioned Ali Nourizadeh, writing in the London-based Saudi daily, ash-Sharq al-Awsat, reports that rumors have swirled in […]

Juan Cole

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Reflections On Capture Of Saddam

Reflections On Capture Of Saddam

Reflections on the Capture of Saddam Hussein Seeing a captive, disheveled Saddam on television this morning released a cascade of memories for me. I remembered […]

Juan Cole

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20 Die In Car Bomb At Khaldiya Police

20 Die In Car Bomb At Khaldiya Police

20 Die in Car Bomb at Khaldiya Police Station Guerrillas exploded a car bomb at an Iraqi police station in Khaldiya, west of Baghdad, on […]

Juan Cole

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Continued Opposition To Us Fiat In Iraq

Continued Opposition To Us Fiat In Iraq

Continued Opposition to the US Fiat in Iraq The possibility of a United Nations Commission that would decide whether early elections should be held in […]

Juan Cole

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3000 Iranian Pilgrims Day Foreseen For

3000 Iranian Pilgrims Day Foreseen For

3000 Iranian Pilgrims a Day foreseen for Iraq According to AFP, another son of SCIRI leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Muhsin al-Hakim, announced that he had […]

Juan Cole

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Sunnis Gear Up To Resist Shiite Rule

Sunnis Gear Up To Resist Shiite Rule

Sunnis Gear up to Resist Shiite Rule Meanwhile, Rich Potter of the Toronto Star reports that the resistance to the US occupation in Falluja is […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Calls For Un Decision According

Sistani Calls For Un Decision According

Sistani Calls for UN Decision According to the Gulf Daily News, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani stands by his ruling that Iraq should go to early […]

Juan Cole

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1 Us Soldier Killed 14 Wounded Three

1 Us Soldier Killed 14 Wounded Three

1 US Soldier Killed, 14 wounded Three guerrillas drove a car filled with explosives near the Champion US Army Base at Ramadi on Thursday and […]

Juan Cole

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