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Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability
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Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability

Juan Cole

The thousands of ISIL fighters imprisoned by the Kurds in 14 detention centers had terrorized western and northern Iraq and eastern Syria

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

01/23/2026 By The Conversation

Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change and the Decline of Empire

Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change and the Decline of Empire

01/23/2026 By William D. Hartung

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Propaganda Terms in the Media and What They Mean - Noam Chomsky

Propaganda Terms in the Media and What They Mean – Noam Chomsky

This talk is from 1990 but it is astonishing how well it holds up. The terms of discourse haven’t changed. Propaganda Terms in the Media […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt’s Revocouption Part Deux:  Dueling Crowds leave 30 Dead

Egypt’s Revocouption Part Deux: Dueling Crowds leave 30 Dead

Egypt’s combination of popular street power and military power continued to dominate the unfolding events in that country on Friday. On Wednesday, Defense Minister Abdel […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Tunisia: Demos, Parliament Resignations and  the Republic of Sidi Bouzid Secedes

Tunisia: Demos, Parliament Resignations and the Republic of Sidi Bouzid Secedes

The assassination on Thursday of the leftist leader of the Popular Front, Mohamed Brahmi, provoked no end of trouble in Tunisia on Friday. The left […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Pentagon: Americans must give up Liberties to fight “enemies” but we won’t say who they are (Currier)

Pentagon: Americans must give up Liberties to fight “enemies” but we won’t say who they are (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Military announces 'War on Terror,' Calls for Massive Demos Against Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt: Military announces ‘War on Terror,’ Calls for Massive Demos Against Muslim Brotherhood

Here are two videos from AFP that help explain all those people milling in the street today in Egypt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Minister […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Tunisia Plunged into Crisis by Second Political Assassination

Tunisia Plunged into Crisis by Second Political Assassination

The assassination Thursday of opposition member of parliament Mohamed Brahmi (from the small far left Popular Front coalition) shook the country for the second time […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Pakistan: Civilian Drone Casualties from Poor US Intelligence: Gen. Shah (Woods)

Pakistan: Civilian Drone Casualties from Poor US Intelligence: Gen. Shah (Woods)

Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: US officials are claiming that an internal Pakistani assessment of civilian deaths from US drone strikes […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
What Congress Could do about NSA Spying if It were Serving the People (Brandeisky)

What Congress Could do about NSA Spying if It were Serving the People (Brandeisky)

Kara Brandeisky writes at ProPublica: Although the House defeated a measure that would have defunded the bulk phone metadata collection program, the narrow 205-217 vote […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Congress betrays vow to Uphold Constitution, abrogates 4th Amendment; Snowden is Better

Congress betrays vow to Uphold Constitution, abrogates 4th Amendment; Snowden is Better

The US House of Representatives narrowly declined on Wednesday to deny funding for National Security Agency collection and storage of millions of Americans’ phone records. […]

Juan Cole

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