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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America
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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America

Juan Cole

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

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The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

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NSA Surveillance is about Control & Leverage, not Security

NSA Surveillance is about Control & Leverage, not Security

By Alfred McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – For more than six months, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring […]

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Barack Obama
After Defending Pot, Obama has to Pardon Medical Marijuana Growers He Jailed

After Defending Pot, Obama has to Pardon Medical Marijuana Growers He Jailed

(By Juan Cole) Barack Obama has a weed problem. Not just that he’s admitted using it. He said clearly when campaigning for president in 2008 […]

Juan Cole

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Gov't used Surveillance of MLK in Bid to Destroy Him: Now they want us to just Trust Them

Gov’t used Surveillance of MLK in Bid to Destroy Him: Now they want us to just Trust Them

(By Juan Cole) Among the ironies of Barack Obama trying to sell us the gargantuan NSA domestic spying program is that such techniques of telephone […]

Juan Cole

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Turkey Purges Officials in Bid to Quash Corruption Probes

Turkey Purges Officials in Bid to Quash Corruption Probes

(By AFP) Turkey widens purge after graft probe (via AFP) The Turkish government’s mass purge of police and prosecutors has extended to the banking and […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Fear is Driving Diplomacy on Syria, not Humanitarianism

Fear is Driving Diplomacy on Syria, not Humanitarianism

(By Martin Gascoigne) Syria, like many countries in the region, is a demographically young country. With a population of 23 million. Slightly over a third […]

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US Intel Officials keep Talking about Killing Snowden, then say "trust us with your data"

US Intel Officials keep Talking about Killing Snowden, then say “trust us with your data”

(By Mike Masnick) The Fact That The US Intelligence Community So Readily Admits To Fantasies Of Killing Ed Snowden Shows Why They Can’t Be Trusted […]

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The Shame and the Danger of Egypt's 98% Vote

The Shame and the Danger of Egypt’s 98% Vote

(By Juan Cole) The announcement on Saturday by the Egyptian government that there was a 38% turnout for the referendum on the new constitution was […]

Juan Cole

Turkish police break up Internet protest

Turkish police break up Internet protest

Riot police in Istanbul have used water cannons against hundreds of people protesting a government plan to expand controls over the public’s use of Internet.

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Israel Tries to Bully Europe over Criticism of Planned 1800 Squatter Units on Palestinian Land

Israel Tries to Bully Europe over Criticism of Planned 1800 Squatter Units on Palestinian Land

(By AFP) Israel hits back at EU over settlement protest (via AFP) Israel called in European ambassadors in a tit-for-tat move on Friday after four […]

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