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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

Mitchell Zimmerman

Kristi Noem’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

01/17/2026 By Human Rights Watch

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

01/17/2026 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis (Cole at Truthdig)

Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis (Cole at Truthdig)

My column is out at Truthdig entitled “Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis” Excerpt: “At a time of continued unemployment and Republican assaults on workers’ […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Netanyahu Emerges Weakened, But Most under Israeli Apartheid were Disenfranchised

Netanyahu Emerges Weakened, But Most under Israeli Apartheid were Disenfranchised

Early returns for the Israeli elections suggest that turnout was high in secular areas like Tel Aviv and in some Palestinian-Israeli districts, whereas it was […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

President Obama addressed the big issues of war and peace in his inaugural address, and despite the vagueness of some of his pronouncements, they contain […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Top Ten Ways President Obama has Expanded our Rights, in Rev. King’s Footsteps

Top Ten Ways President Obama has Expanded our Rights, in Rev. King’s Footsteps

In holding his inaugural on Martin Luther King Day, President Obama is underlining his achievement as the first African-American president and the first and only […]

Juan Cole

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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights

In his last speech before being assassinated, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. complained about unjustified curbs on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly: It […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)

Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)

Obama Sworn in to Second Term: “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny Barack Obama a second term.” – […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?

Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?

140 nations meeting in Geneva have concluded an accord to limit mercury emissions, which must now be ratified by individual nations. It has implications for […]

Juan Cole

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Algerian Military Retakes Gas Plant: 16 Hostages, 32 terrorists Dead

Algerian Military Retakes Gas Plant: 16 Hostages, 32 terrorists Dead

The Algerian military took back the Ayn Imnas gas plant on Saturday, invading it and killing 32 radical fundamentalists, including their leader, Abdul Rahmani al-Nijeri, […]

Juan Cole

Energy
13 gigawatts of New Wind power in US in 2012, Renewables Half of all New Energy

13 gigawatts of New Wind power in US in 2012, Renewables Half of all New Energy

The US put in 13 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2012, 5 of it in December alone, according to a Bloomberg study. The […]

Juan Cole

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