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Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus

Juan Cole

An Israeli police statement blamed the demonstrators, saying that they had disturbed the peace, closed off streets, damaged buses

With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical

With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical

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Trump’s War on Women: Bodies, Roles, and Futures at Risk

Trump’s War on Women: Bodies, Roles, and Futures at Risk

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Ruling Hindu Tea Party wants to "Develop" India for its 1%

Ruling Hindu Tea Party wants to “Develop” India for its 1%

By Gyanendra Pandey New Delhi Through the President’s address to Parliament on June 9, 2014, the newly elected Indian Government has officially outlined its short […]

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Uneasy Caliphate: Inside Hawija in Iraq

Uneasy Caliphate: Inside Hawija in Iraq

By Shalaw Mohammed | Hawija NIQASH visited Hawija, a large northern Iraqi town near Kirkuk, which is currently controlled by Sunni Muslim extremists and local […]

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Blackwater: Nice State Dept. you have here, shame if Anything happened to It

Blackwater: Nice State Dept. you have here, shame if Anything happened to It

State Department official documented in memo that mercenary threatened him just weeks before Nisour Square massacre By Jon Queally As the trial continues against Blackwater […]

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In the Deaths of 3 Israeli Teens, Likud Policies are also Implicated

In the Deaths of 3 Israeli Teens, Likud Policies are also Implicated

By Juan Cole The kidnapping and killing of three Israeli squatter youth whose parents usurped Palestinian land has produced a paroxysm of hatred and calls […]

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Katrina to arch-Neocon Bill Kristol: Be Accountable, Enlist in the Iraqi Army

Katrina to arch-Neocon Bill Kristol: Be Accountable, Enlist in the Iraqi Army

“Katrina vanden Heuvel [editor of The Nation] and Bill Kristol tussled over Iraq on ABC’s This Week today when vanden Heuvel lumped in Kristol with […]

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What the Arab Youth Movements have Wrought:  Don’t Count them Out Yet

What the Arab Youth Movements have Wrought: Don’t Count them Out Yet

By Juan Cole via Tomdispatch.com Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by the massive crowds of youths mobilizing in Cairo’s Tahrir […]

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Photo of the Day:  Egyptian Youth Demanded end to Military Trials for Civilians

Photo of the Day: Egyptian Youth Demanded end to Military Trials for Civilians

By Juan Cole Now On the June 30 anniversary of the determined masses gathered in their millions at Tahrir Square and in city centers throughout […]

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The Debacle of the Caliphates:  Why al-Baghdadi's Grandiosity doesn't Matter

The Debacle of the Caliphates: Why al-Baghdadi’s Grandiosity doesn’t Matter

By Juan Cole Ibrahim al-Badri, a run-of-the-mill Sunni Iraqi cleric, gained a degree from the University of Baghdad at a time when pedagogy there had […]

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Hyenas vs. Rhinos:  Who could the NYT get to write an Op-ed on Iraq?  Hmm...

Hyenas vs. Rhinos: Who could the NYT get to write an Op-ed on Iraq? Hmm…

By Juan Cole New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan did a quick study and found that critics of the paper of record over its […]

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