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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

A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

01/16/2026 By Binoy Kampmark

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

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Obama/ Maliki Conflicts on the Future of Iraq

Obama/ Maliki Conflicts on the Future of Iraq

Al-Sharq al-Awsat carried an article on December 15 about the behind the scenes conflicts between US President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. […]

Juan Cole

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No War Crimes Trial for Bush/Cheney, While Chirac Convicted on minor Fraud

No War Crimes Trial for Bush/Cheney, While Chirac Convicted on minor Fraud

The United States is now officially more corrupt than the Old World. Former French president Jacques Chirac has been found guilty of corruption when he […]

Juan Cole

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Cole interview with Nobelist Tawakkul Karman

Cole interview with Nobelist Tawakkul Karman

My interview on Arab feminism, youth activism, and revolution with Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman of Yemen is now up at YouTube. I asked […]

Juan Cole

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Obama and NDAA:  Chipping away at the Constitution – HRW

Obama and NDAA: Chipping away at the Constitution – HRW

 Press release from Human Rights Watch:   Wednesday, December 14, 2011   Human Rights Watch   For Immediate Release US: Refusal to Veto Detainee Bill […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich, The Fall of the "Liberal Elite"

Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich, The Fall of the "Liberal Elite"

Until a few months ago, the 99% was hardly a group capable of articulating “the identity of their interests.” It contained, and still contains, most “ordinary” rich people, along with middle-class professionals, factory work…

Juan Cole

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Israel to defend its Military from Israelis

Israel to defend its Military from Israelis

Coddling violent fanatics who attack and steal from Palestinians might just backfire on the Right wing Likud government. What? It already has? I wonder if […]

Juan Cole

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Top Arab Revolution Stories the US Media Ignored

Top Arab Revolution Stories the US Media Ignored

Long time human rights activist Moncef Marzouki became Tunisia’s president this week. Tunisians wept, at the idea that this principled man, forced into exile by […]

Juan Cole

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US Congress Abruptly Passes Resolution Against Dogs

US Congress Abruptly Passes Resolution Against Dogs

Italian cat inherits $16 million. Feline lobby in the making?

Juan Cole

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Post-American Iraq by the Numbers

Post-American Iraq by the Numbers

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited Washington this week, in something of a commemoration of the withdrawal of all US troops from his country. As […]

Juan Cole

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