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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?

Mitchell Zimmerman

Minnesota is an occupied land, abused by lawless thugs. We are all Minnesotans.

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

01/28/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

01/28/2026 By Andrea Mazzarino

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Republican Scandal-Mongering on Benghazi and the Bush Embassy Attacks (plus Daily Show video)

Republican Scandal-Mongering on Benghazi and the Bush Embassy Attacks (plus Daily Show video)

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show makes fun of the Republican obsession with the Benghazi events of last September and their unsupported allegations of some […]

Juan Cole

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The Chinese Diplomatic Pivot to the Middle East and Beijing’s Middle East Studies Establishment (Ma)

by HAIYUN MA writes at ISLAMiCommentary : Haiyun Ma This week China’s new president, Xi Jinping, separately hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Republican Myths on Libya

Top Ten Republican Myths on Libya

Reprint edn.; since they don’t change their talking points, why should we change our blog entries? 1. Republican senators keep saying that it should have […]

Juan Cole

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Is the Government reading your Email without a Warrant?

Is the Government reading your Email without a Warrant?

Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) has demanded that the FBI and other Federal agencies obtain a warrant to read private emails. He said that Americans’ “right […]

Juan Cole

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Minorities and the Arab Revolutions (Cole Video)

Minorities and the Arab Revolutions (Cole Video)

Here is an excerpt from my recent talk on minorities and the Arab Revolutions at Portland State: Here is the video

Juan Cole

Syria
Has the Obama administration Given into Russia on Syria?

Has the Obama administration Given into Russia on Syria?

The joint communique issued by Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this week regarding Syria has in retrospect raised […]

Juan Cole

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Obama’s War on Whistleblowers who are  trying to out Government Waste, Fraud (Van Buren)

Obama’s War on Whistleblowers who are trying to out Government Waste, Fraud (Van Buren)

Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com: What do words mean in a post-9/11 world? Apart from the now clichéd Orwellian twists that turn brutal torture […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Hawking joins Academic Boycott of Israel

Hawking joins Academic Boycott of Israel

Physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the annual President’s Conference in Jerusalem this year has been confirmed by Cambridge University. The university initially attempted to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Russia Warns Israel:  Hands off Syria, as PFLP threatens Guerrilla Strike

Russia Warns Israel: Hands off Syria, as PFLP threatens Guerrilla Strike

The Iranian press is reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has vehemently warned Israel against further airstrikes on Syria. Putin is said to be accelerating […]

Juan Cole

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