Anti-Discrimination Laws Proposed in Morocco Ribat – Al-Sharq al-Awsat, 22 April 2002. This sort of news almost never gets reported in the West. Yesterday a gathering of Moroccan politicians, cultural figures, and journalists called for strong legislation against racial and religious discrimination in Morocco. They specifically mentioned the difficulties some of the country’s 6,000 Jews […]
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:25:25 -0500 (EST) To: gulf2000 list Equal Opportunity Bigotry Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:23:12 -0500 From: Juan Cole Yes, I am outraged by Dr. al-Jalahma’s column, and by similarly outrageous pieces of gross bigotry that appear quite frequently in the Saudi press and the Arabic language press more generally. […]
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Re: Editor Suggests “Nuking Mecca” From: Juan Cole Re: Lowry and Coulter One reason that Lowry’s (and earlier Coulter’s) remarks are alarming is that the political Right in the United States has a track record of actually getting into power and then implementing policies earlier thought bizarre by mainstream American society. Ronald Reagan was widely […]
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:36:20 -0500 (EST) To: gulf2000 list Re: Oil and US politics From: Juan Cole . . . An irony occurs to me. The Saudis and OPEC did the U.S. a substantial favor after September 11 in not making further production cuts to offset the fall in petroleum prices caused by […]
Sunday April 21 2002 Cheney Strikes Out
Sunday, April 21, 2002 Cheney Strikes Out Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:13:27 -0500 (EST) To: gulf2000 list From: Juan Cole While we’ve been talking about press issues . . . the important event in the Gulf has been Dick Cheney’s 11-nation tour, which clearly aimed at drumming up support for a US strike on […]
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