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Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Cherry-Picking Intel, Nunes and the Iraq War Disaster

Cherry-Picking Intel, Nunes and the Iraq War Disaster

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Here is a caution against the Nunes memo that the Republican Party intends to release: it is the sort of thing that got us into the disastrous Iraq War. Cherry-picking raw intelligence is one of the ways the hawks around Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld bamboozled Washington […]

Authoritarianism
Egypt: Sisi Warns Opposition After Call for Elections Boycott

Egypt: Sisi Warns Opposition After Call for Elections Boycott

Juan Cole

TeleSur | – – Opposition parties and leaders are calling for a boycott of Egypt’s presidential elections after other candidates were arrested or intimidated. Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned its political opponents after a boycott on next presidential elections was announced. “Be warned. What happened seven or eight years ago, will not happen again […]

Donald Trump
The Fascist underpinnings of Trump's State of the Union

The Fascist underpinnings of Trump’s State of the Union

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s State of the Union address had all the elements of fascism except brownshirts marching in the street beating people up (and he veered toward even that in his praise of the Klan and Neo-Nazis at Charlottesville). Fascism pretends to incorporate the good of the masses […]

Democracy
Egyptian opposition call for boycotting presidential elections

Egyptian opposition call for boycotting presidential elections

Juan Cole

Middle East Monitor | – – Egyptian former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi called today for boycotting the country’s upcoming presidential elections due in March. Speaking at a press conference held at the opposition Dignity Party headquarters in the capital Cairo, Sabahi called for the formation of a “unified coalition” to boycott the elections. “These are […]

Featured
Trump declines to Sanction Russia, Spurring Speculation about Putin Hold

Trump declines to Sanction Russia, Spurring Speculation about Putin Hold

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Trump administration has refused to implement new sanctions on the Russian defense sector, as mandated by Congress’s “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act,” or CAATSA. Congress passed the bill last year and it was reluctantly finally signed by Trump in August. It is vaguely worded […]

Internet
Is The Internet A Luxury Or A Right? (Video)

Is The Internet A Luxury Or A Right? (Video)

Juan Cole

AJ+ | – – “Ten percent of people in the U.S. don’t have broadband internet, and the number is much higher among rural communities and the urban poor. “ Is The Internet A Luxury Or A Right? | AJ+

Climate Change
No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth

No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Associated Press did a useful fact check of Trump’s bizarre assertions on climate change in the interview with his friend Piers Morgan. Since Trump is not good with reading books and the like, it may be helpful to reply to his falsehoods with graphs. TRUMP: […]

Climate Change
In the Age of Big Climate Change we have to stop Farting Carbon

In the Age of Big Climate Change we have to stop Farting Carbon

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This past year is what the era of Big Climate Change looks like. We are only at the beginning of the massive changes we are making to our environment by farting 41 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (a heat-trapping gas) into our atmosphere every year, […]

Corruption
Blood oil: more than half of the oil traded across the world has been stolen

Blood oil: more than half of the oil traded across the world has been stolen

Juan Cole

By Leif Wenar | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump tweeted something true recently. Responding to the protests in Iran, the US president stated that “The people are finally getting wise as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered.” Trump’s point is correct: what vice-president Mike Pence called Iran’s “unelected […]

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