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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives
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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

H. Scott Prosterman

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

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How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (162) “Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever”

Omar Khayyam (162) “Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever”

Be happy, since once you’re upset  it goes on forever– as stars move into conjunction  in the sky, it will go on. The brick they will […]

Juan Cole

Energy
How Lance Armstrong's Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2

How Lance Armstrong’s Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2

Understanding how performance-enhancing drugs raise the odds of success in sports helps us understand how dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere raises the chances of […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Algeria's Botched Rescue Leaves Dozens of Hostages Dead, Angers West

Algeria’s Botched Rescue Leaves Dozens of Hostages Dead, Angers West

Reuters reports that the Algerian government’s intervention against the hostage crisis at a BP natural gas plant in southern Algeria has left 30 of the […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Ansar Dine and How Climate Change Contributed to the Algeria-Mali Crisis

Ansar Dine and How Climate Change Contributed to the Algeria-Mali Crisis

The destabilization of Mali and southern Algeria is a complex political and social process that does not have only one cause. But a changing ecology […]

Juan Cole

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Congress:  The Broken Engine of our Stalled Economy (Jamiol cartoon)

Congress: The Broken Engine of our Stalled Economy (Jamiol cartoon)

By Paul Jamiol, courtesy Jamiol’s World.

Juan Cole

US politics
Gun Murders vs. Terrorism by the Numbers

Gun Murders vs. Terrorism by the Numbers

Number of Americans killed in domestic terrorist attacks, 2002-2011: 30 Number of Americans murdered by firearms, 2000-2011: 115,997 Cost of the War on Terror since […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (259) “Have some wine, since no one is given a long life”

Omar Khayyam (259) “Have some wine, since no one is given a long life”

The revolving sky, which has never revealed any mysteries, has brutally crushed a thousand innocents. Have some wine, since no one is given a long […]

Juan Cole

Syria
237 Dead in Syria day of Horrors, 87 killed at Aleppo U

237 Dead in Syria day of Horrors, 87 killed at Aleppo U

An enormous explosion hit Aleppo University on Tuesday, killing some 87 students and wounding over 150. The motive for the bombing is obscure. The regime […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Administration Seems Confused On Afghan ‘End Game’ – AP  (…. in 1988! – Screenshot)

Administration Seems Confused On Afghan ‘End Game’ – AP (…. in 1988! – Screenshot)

Juan Cole

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