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Juan Cole

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Should Memorial Day include Commemoration of Thoreau?

Should Memorial Day include Commemoration of Thoreau?

Juan Cole

Memorial Day began as a commemoration for the dead in the US Civil War, and especially for the Northern dead. Southern states for the most part had their own days of mourning for Confederate dead (some still do). Only after World War I when the day was repurposed as a commemoration of the soldiers killed […]

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Help Build a Hospital in Karbala, Iraq!

Help Build a Hospital in Karbala, Iraq!

Juan Cole

Karbala, Iraq, doesn’t have enough good medical care. The number one killer is heart attacks, but a whole range of ailments are not being effectively combatted. There is an opportunity for us all to do something about that, now. An Iraqi philanthropy backed by the well-known al-Qazwini family is founding a state-of-the-art hospital there (click […]

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Who’s the Threat?  Western Powers have invaded and Killed Millions of Muslims

Who’s the Threat? Western Powers have invaded and Killed Millions of Muslims

Juan Cole

Listening to Newt Gingrich, the great bloviator, go on this morning on the alleged Muslim threat, set me off. Gingrich did his dissertation on Belgian educational policy in the Congo, where he managed to miss the genocide perpetrated by the Europeans. Gingrich knows better, he is just hate-mongering. But since he brought it up, it […]

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Rockets in Beirut Target Hizbullah as Violence spreads from Syria to Lebanon

Rockets in Beirut Target Hizbullah as Violence spreads from Syria to Lebanon

Juan Cole

Four persons were wounded by GRAD rockets that fell in south-western Beirut, a Hizbullah stronghold, on Sunday. The strikes come a day after the head of Hizbullah pledged to continue fighting for the al-Assad regime in Syria. Most Sunni Muslims in Lebanon support the rebels against the Baath government, and so are annoyed with Hizbullah […]

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Turkey:  Kissing Protest in Ankara

Turkey: Kissing Protest in Ankara

Juan Cole

After a subway official chastised a young couple in Ankara for kissing in public, internet activists organized a small flashmob at the Kurtuluş metro station in the Turkish capital, where lots of couples engaged in a public display of affection. They attracted the ire of a group of religious men, but were protected by the […]

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Media Ignores Climate Change Background of Increased Flooding (Media Matters Short)

Media Ignores Climate Change Background of Increased Flooding (Media Matters Short)

Juan Cole

As The Scientific American noted a couple of years ago: In a 2011 study published in Nature, “. . . researchers examined daily records of rainfall, snowfall and sleet from more than 6,000 weather stations between 1951 and 1999. They found a rise in cases of extreme precipitation, such as rainstorms that deliver 100 millimeters […]

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Checkpoint: The Every Day Life of Humiliation for Palestinians (Short Documentary)

Checkpoint: The Every Day Life of Humiliation for Palestinians (Short Documentary)

Juan Cole

Checkpoint – Every Day Life in Palestine Documentary ( Subtitles ) ” Published on Apr 27, 2013 A film showing the day to day reality of Palestinians subjected to demeaning humiliation at Israeli military checkpoints as they attempt to go about their daily lives in their own lands. No political speeches. No opinions. Just an […]

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Taliban Attack UN Agency in Kabul, Wounding 7

Taliban Attack UN Agency in Kabul, Wounding 7

Juan Cole

The Taliban launched a major attack in the capital of Kabul on Friday, injuring 7 people with a car bomb at the International office of Immigration, a UN-affiliated organization. In the firefight between the attackers and the Afghanistan military (which was aided by Norwegian troops), 7 persons were killed, including 5 4 Taliban and three […]

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Civil Disobedience and Jail Time for Opposing Big Oil: Tim DeChristopher (Moyers Interview)

Civil Disobedience and Jail Time for Opposing Big Oil: Tim DeChristopher (Moyers Interview)

Juan Cole

Bill Moyers interviews Tim DeChristopher, leader of Peaceful Uprising, who just got out of jail after serving a two-year sentence for peacefully disrupting an oil and gas auction on public land that the Obama administration declared invalid.

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