Category
- Africa (96)
- Asia (526)
- Authoritarianism (99)
- Cats (1)
- Culture (333)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (152)
- Dissent (259)
- Economy (429)
- Education (50)
- Elderly (2)
- Energy (727)
- Environment (847)
- Europe (463)
- Featured (1,364)
- fiction (5)
- Food (5)
- Guns (8)
- History (142)
- Human Rights (795)
- Immigration (13)
- International (464)
- Islamophobia (193)
- Juan Cole (264)
- Latin America (28)
- Latinos (3)
- leisure (21)
- media (278)
- Middle East (4,770)
- Arab World (3,508)
- Iran (415)
- Israel (575)
- Israel/ Palestine (1,096)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (173)
- Turkey (279)
- military (101)
- Modernism (1)
- nationalism (86)
- NATO (3)
- Natural Disasters (7)
- nuclear weapons (22)
- Peace (51)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Popular Culture (22)
- Poverty (3)
- privacy (19)
- racism (181)
- religion (583)
- Rights (107)
- Romance (1)
- science (73)
- Secular (West) (7)
- Secularism (18)
- South Pacific (1)
- Spirituality (18)
- Statelessness (14)
- Surveillance (239)
- Terrorism (939)
- Tolerance (2)
- Uncategorized (7,998)
- United Nations (53)
- Urbanization (2)
- US Foreign Policy (388)
- US politics (2,019)
- Anti-War Movement (4)
- Campaign Finance (21)
- Censors (18)
- Central Intelligence Agency (49)
- Civil Rights (74)
- Constitution (205)
- Democratic Party (406)
- Domestic Terrorism (14)
- Drone Warfare (17)
- Espionage (99)
- Ethnicities (183)
- Far Right (106)
- FBI (26)
- Foreign Policy (151)
- Gay Rights (11)
- Guns (39)
- Immigration (90)
- Israel Lobbies (58)
- Militarization (179)
- National Security State (304)
- Native Americans (12)
- Nuclear arsenal (5)
- penitentiaries (5)
- Pentagon (143)
- Police (17)
- prison reform (1)
- Reproductive Choice (7)
- Republican Party (1,074)
- Supreme Court (17)
- Voter suppression (14)
- Whistleblowers (3)
- Xenophobia (4)
- Veterans (15)
- Voting Rights (4)
- War (164)
- Western Religion (295)
- White Supremacists (20)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (169)
- workers (99)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (93)
Archives: US politics
Trump’s new Clash of Civilizations: Carbonites v. Greens
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment…
Does Watching too much TV turn you into a Trump Voter?
By James Shanahan. | (The Conversation) | - - Many gallons of ink (and megabytes of electronic text) have been devoted to explaining the surprise victory of Donald Trump. Reasons range from…
Tillerson-Trump Rumble over Qatar shows White House Divisions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday called on Saudi Arabia and its allies to halt their blockade of Qatar. "There are humanitarian…
GOP Rep. urges US Terror alliance with ISIL against Iranian civilians
NIAC | (Video News Clip) | - - NIAC Action: "Shocking: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Suggests Tehran ISIS Attack Was "Positive"
UK hung Parliament: Is Trumpism pushing Europe Left?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As of very early Friday morning, it looks as though the election in the UK has produced a hung parliament, with the Conservative…
As Comey Bolsters “Obstruction” Case, could Trump be Impeached?
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - "Impeachment takes time but we need to start the process now. It's time to call for impeachment hearings." On the heels of…
Hawaii defies Trump, commits to Paris Accords
TeleSur | - - Even the limited environmental reforms of the Paris Agreements were too much for the United States. Hawaii has broken from the White House's abrupt exit from the Paris…
Top 10 Ways Americans judge Trump in the Comey Covfefe
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On the eve of former FBI director James Comey's testimony, Trump seems to be tanking in the polls, and his firing Comey seems…
How Trump Used the London Attacks to Further His Agenda (Cole Rising Up Interview)
Rising Up with Sonali | Sonali Kolhatkar | (Audio and Video Interview) | "Just days before the UK elections, US president Donald Trump has wielded his Twitter account as a weapon once…
First, the Soviets Collapsed: Is it America’s Turn Now?
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has…
London Mayor Sadiq Khan uninvites Trump as opposed to Humane British Values
By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | - - Trump's shameful and out of context attacks on Sadiq Khan, the popular mayor of London, have only reminded us of what a boor…
It isn’t just Trump: The American System is Broken
By Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | - - NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump’s ravings against the 2015 Paris climate agreement are partly a product of his ignorance and…
US faces risks as Trump misreads the Middle East
Francis Ghilès | (OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Militarising the region further and taking sides in a recently concocted sectarian conflict will likely end in tears. Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Saudi King…
Apocalypse Soon: Does Trump Downgrade of Diplomacy in Koreas threaten us All?
By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Defense Secretary James Mattis remarked recently that a war with North Korea would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale.” No kidding. “Tragic” doesn’t…
How Trump should have responded to London Attacks if he were Normal
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald J. Trump 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue/ Mar-a-Lago Florida (Golf Course) Dear Prime Minister May and Mayor Khan: I was devastated to learn that…
The Jeremy Corbyn response to Trump, May and Terror you won’t see on Corporate News
Jeremy Corbyn | (Video Clip) | - - Jeremy Corbyn | Terrorist Attack in London | criticism of May and Trump
What’s the most effective way to fight terrorism? – Juan Cole on CBS
Reena Ninan | CBS News | (Video Clip) | - - "A new article in The Nation suggests Ariana Grande has a better approach to fighting terrorism than Defense Secretary James Mattis.…
Trump’s Great Retreat, from Asia Too
John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Asia has been the future for more than a generation. When Americans try to glimpse what’s to come, images of the Pacific Rim…