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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring
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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring

Mohammed Samaana

Israel and its hard line supporters have long relied on weaponizing charges of antisemitism to silence critics

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

03/06/2026 By Juan Cole

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

03/06/2026 By Al-Shabaka

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Iraq
Daesh/ ISIL close to Taking al-Anbar Province as Tribal Levies lack Ammunition, Funding, Unity

Daesh/ ISIL close to Taking al-Anbar Province as Tribal Levies lack Ammunition, Funding, Unity

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | — Last week, fighters from tribes in Anbar were forced to give up their hold on the […]

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5 Countries where Solar Power is making a Revolution

5 Countries where Solar Power is making a Revolution

By Juan Cole | — Developing countries of the global south don’t have enough electricity. Sometimes rural populations are only just now getting electricity. Ironically, […]

Juan Cole

Books
Blogging Colbert (In honor of the Finale of the Colbert Report)

Blogging Colbert (In honor of the Finale of the Colbert Report)

Reprint: So I was on the Colbert Report, hosted by Stephen Colbert at Comedy Central, on Wednesday night, to promote my new book, Engaging the […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Top 7 Ways Assassination Fails USA as Policy

Top 7 Ways Assassination Fails USA as Policy

By Juan Cole Wikileaks has released a government assessment of drone strikes aimed at assassinating top leaders. The document urges such strikes, but is amazingly […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Roots of Militancy among some Muslim Youth: What can be Done?

Roots of Militancy among some Muslim Youth: What can be Done?

By Mustafa Gurbuz Gruesome ISIS beheadings, the Sydney siege, and now Taliban’s slaughter of children in Pakistan have haunted the media, along with the Senate’s […]

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Displaced and Refugees
The Yezidi Minority, Daesh/ISIL,  and Iraq's Human Rights Catastrophe

The Yezidi Minority, Daesh/ISIL, and Iraq’s Human Rights Catastrophe

by Patrick Ball Patrick Ball with Yezidi boys at an informal camp in Sharya, Iraq. Farhad (not his real name) got the call from ISIS […]

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Free Syrian Army
The Israeli Hospital Admitting Syrian Fighters: The War Next Door

The Israeli Hospital Admitting Syrian Fighters: The War Next Door

Vice News | — “In August, al Nusra Front jihadists took control of Syria’s side of the border crossing with Israel and kidnapped over 40 […]

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Central Intelligence Agency
Torture, Assassination and the Other Shoe:  The Coming Great Senate Drone Report of 2019

Torture, Assassination and the Other Shoe: The Coming Great Senate Drone Report of 2019

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | — It was December 6, 2019, three years into a sagging Clinton presidency and a bitterly divided Congress. That […]

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Cuba:  Top 5 other Dictatorships with which US has Diplomatic Relations

Cuba: Top 5 other Dictatorships with which US has Diplomatic Relations

By Juan Cole | — The US sanctions on Cuba were justified by their supporters with reference to the Communist government’s human rights record. That […]

Juan Cole

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