I am reprinting part of this essay that appeared in Renovatio, the literary magazine of a small Muslim liberal arts college — Zaytuna — in […]
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Cole/Goodman Interview on the Obama Drawdown and the Afghanistan War
Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow! interviewed me Wednesday on the significance of President Obama’s announcement of a significant drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan. Here is […]
DemocracyNow! On Bush/CIA Spy Mission against Juan Cole
Amy Goodman devoted her whole program on Wednesday to an interview with Glenn Carle and me, much of which centered on Mr. Carle’s revelations about […]
Obama: The Tides of War are Receding
June 22, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery On the Way Forward in Afghanistan Washington, D.C. June 22, 2011 As […]
The End of the Beginning in Afghanistan
Breaking news: CNN is reporting that President Obama has decided to take 30,000 troops out of Afghanistan over the next year eighteen months, including 10,000 […]
Stewart Figures out what Rupert is Up To
Jon Stewart explains what Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Cable News thinks it is actually about, and it has nothing to do with fair reporting. The Daily […]
Key developments in the Arab Spring Today
Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets Monday to demand an end to the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh and a move to […]
Response to Bush/CIA Spying Allegations by the University of Michigan
U-M responds
Gates: Winding down the Wars
Outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley on Sunday, and he sees a diminished American superpower […]
Top Ten Mistakes in the Libya War
In the post-World War II international legal regime, there are only two grounds for going to war, according to the United Nations Charter. One is […]