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How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied
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How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied

Juan Cole

Occupied people do not have rights, and they do not even have the right to have rights. They are lesser.

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

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Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

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Crime
Why Oklahoma's Botched Execution is an Argument for ending Death Penalty

Why Oklahoma’s Botched Execution is an Argument for ending Death Penalty

Yet more evidence that the death penalty is cruel and inhumane arrived today at 8:00PM from the state of Oklahoma. Charles Warner, convicted of raping and murdering an 11-month-old girl, found his execution stayed today after the attempted execution…

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The PLO-Hamas Unity Agreement: an Opportunity for the United States and Israel

The PLO-Hamas Unity Agreement: an Opportunity for the United States and Israel

(By Joel Migdal) The unity agreement announced last week between Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization drew swift, negative reactions from Israel, including suspending its […]

Juan Cole

media
On how the Death of Turkish Democracy this Year wasn't exactly Clickbait

On how the Death of Turkish Democracy this Year wasn’t exactly Clickbait

(By Ola Claësson) I can’t help being surprised of how little that has been reported in the foreign media about the development in Turkey after […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Fox censors ‘Scientific American’ editor on Climate Change because, Future

Fox censors ‘Scientific American’ editor on Climate Change because, Future

(By Scott Kaufman) ‘Scientific American’ editor: Fox censored my discussion of climate change as ‘future trend’ (via Raw Story ) Scientific American editor Michael Moyer […]

Juan Cole

Featured
Iraq's first Post-American Elections by the Numbers

Iraq’s first Post-American Elections by the Numbers

(By Juan Cole) Iraqis went to the polls on Wednesday in the first national parliamentary elections since US troops pulled out of the country completely […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Egyptian Judges shock world again, condemning 683 Muslim Brothers to Death

Egyptian Judges shock world again, condemning 683 Muslim Brothers to Death

Egypt’s judiciary accused of being arm of repression (via AFP) A wave of mass sentences in Egypt, including hundreds sentenced to death this week after […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Did the Supreme Court just Kill Dirty Coal Plants & Save the World?

Did the Supreme Court just Kill Dirty Coal Plants & Save the World?

(By Juan Cole) The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed that the Environmental Protection Agency has the prerogative to regulate air pollution that spills across state […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Longest War: How the US drove potential Afghanistan Allies into the Arms of the Taliban

The Longest War: How the US drove potential Afghanistan Allies into the Arms of the Taliban

(By Anand Gopal via Tomdispatch.com) It was a typical Kabul morning. Malik Ashgar Square was already bumper-to-bumper with Corolla taxis, green police jeeps, honking minivans, […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Saudi Fatwa against "THE 99" Tolerant Muslim Superhero Comics as "Evil"

Saudi Fatwa against “THE 99” Tolerant Muslim Superhero Comics as “Evil”

(By Naif Al-Mutawa) Seven years ago, THE 99 [super-hero comics] were granted approvals to Saudi Arabia. What began as a suspicious relationship, my not expecting […]

Juan Cole

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