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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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President Obama zings Zach Galifianakis on "Between Two Ferns"

President Obama zings Zach Galifianakis on “Between Two Ferns”

President Obama on funnyordie.com plugging the Affordable Health Care Act: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama —– Related […]

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Climate Change
 By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis

By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis

(By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch) As the San Francisco bureaucrats on the dais murmured about why they weren’t getting anywhere near what we in the […]

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Domestic Surveillance
When it is Feinstein being Spied on, Suddenly she Squawks

When it is Feinstein being Spied on, Suddenly she Squawks

(By Juan Cole) Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) took to the senate floor on Tuesday to denounce the Central Intelligence Agency for spying on her staff […]

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Economy
Libya's Parliament dumps PM Zeidan, Elects al-Thinni, over Oil Tanker Crisis

Libya’s Parliament dumps PM Zeidan, Elects al-Thinni, over Oil Tanker Crisis

(By Juan Cole) In a series of dramatic political moves, the Libyan General National Congress on Tuesday carried out a vote of no confidence in […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
“Normalizing” Suicide Bombing:  What the Assassination of Abu Khaled al-Soury Says about Jihadism Today

“Normalizing” Suicide Bombing: What the Assassination of Abu Khaled al-Soury Says about Jihadism Today

(Jeffrey William Lewis) On February 23 the Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia concluded peacefully. A terrorist attack by Chechen Black Widow suicide bombers—much feared and […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Edward Snowden:  The US is Undermining its own Cybersecurity

Edward Snowden: The US is Undermining its own Cybersecurity

SXSW: Snowden Touts Encryption, Swipes at NSA (via slashdot) In a Google Hangout with an auditorium full of South by Southwest attendees, government whistleblower (and […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Obama's Rules:  US Drones in Yemen - 'Psychological Torture' from Above

Obama’s Rules: US Drones in Yemen – ‘Psychological Torture’ from Above

(By Sarah Lazare) As the United States steps up covert drone strikes on Yemen, with three suspected U.S. drone attacks killing at least four people in Yemen […]

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Bahrain
The War on Terror Jumps the Shark as Everyone in the Mideast accuses everyone else of Terrorism

The War on Terror Jumps the Shark as Everyone in the Mideast accuses everyone else of Terrorism

(By Juan Cole) In early December of last year, Lebanese Shiite leader Hassan Nasrallah of Hizbullah accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the bombing of […]

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Islam
Ukraine Muslims wary of Crimea Referendum on Joining Russia

Ukraine Muslims wary of Crimea Referendum on Joining Russia

Crimean Tatars wary of Russia referendum (via AFP) Victims of Stalin’s mass deportations in 1944, Crimea’s Tatar Muslim minority look warily on next week’s referendum […]

Juan Cole

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