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Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self
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Juan Cole: Islam, History and the Enlargement of the Self

Juan Cole

They discuss Cole’s career, ranging from his upbringing in a military family to becoming a leading public intellectual during the Iraq War

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

An Atomic Armageddon? Will the U.S. and Russia Abandon All Nuclear Restraints?

01/09/2026 By Michael T. Klare

Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

Melting Ice Makes the Greenland Minerals Trump Wants Dangerous to Extract: Climate Change

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President Erdoğan to participate in key TÜSİAD meeting

President Erdoğan to participate in key TÜSİAD meeting

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will join a meeting hosted by Turkey’s top business group next week, in a possible sign of improved relations with the […]

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Arabs without God

Arabs without God

By Brian Whitaker, author of Arabs without God In the midst of sectarian turmoil in the Middle East, one section of Arab society rarely gets […]

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Dissent
The Israeli version of Steven Salaita:  Occupation University fires Professor for Insufficient Zionism

The Israeli version of Steven Salaita: Occupation University fires Professor for Insufficient Zionism

By Amir Hetsroni This is how I became the Israeli version of Steven Salaita:   I was teaching at Ariel University when administrators summoned me to […]

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Israel
How the Gaza War Backfired on Netanyahu

How the Gaza War Backfired on Netanyahu

By Ramzy Baroud (Maan News Agency) Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly — his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried […]

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Barack Obama
Russia denounces Obama Plan for Syria Air Strikes as Violation of Int'l Law

Russia denounces Obama Plan for Syria Air Strikes as Violation of Int’l Law

By Juan Cole Russia on Thursday pushed back against President Obama’s state plans for taking on the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant […]

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Counter-Terrorism
Obama's ISIL Actions are Defensive, Despite Rhetoric of going on Offense

Obama’s ISIL Actions are Defensive, Despite Rhetoric of going on Offense

By Juan Cole President Obama’s speech launching his war on ISIL avoided the qualifications that he had earlier made, which had produced caviling inside the […]

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Iraq
ISIL isn't Medieval:  Revolution, Terror and Statemaking are Modern

ISIL isn’t Medieval: Revolution, Terror and Statemaking are Modern

By Kevin McDonald, Middlesex University Over recent weeks there has been a constant background noise that Islamic State and its ideology are some sort of […]

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Free Syrian Army
ISIL Fighting With Weapons From US and 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels: Report

ISIL Fighting With Weapons From US and 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels: Report

By Sarah Lazare via Commondreams.org The Islamic State (IS) is now in possession of lethal weapons formerly owned by so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels, as well […]

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Crime
US, Iraq have same child homicide rate – UNICEF

US, Iraq have same child homicide rate – UNICEF

RT America: “America leads all Western nations in the number of child homicide victims, according to a new report from UNICEF. In 2012, there were […]

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