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Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan

Juan Cole

Andersen said, “I mean, you can’t really fathom that this is actually something that is being said out loud. It just seems too crazy.”

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

01/25/2026 By The Conversation

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

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Justin Bieber on Sen. Klobuchar’s Criminalization of the Internet: She should be put away in Cuffs

Justin Bieber on Sen. Klobuchar’s Criminalization of the Internet: She should be put away in Cuffs

Justin Bieber went off on Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Friday, slamming her proposed legislation imposing criminal penalties for copyright violations on the internet and […]

Juan Cole

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Political Pluralism breaks out in Tunisia

Political Pluralism breaks out in Tunisia

Tunisia’s election outcome gives 41% to the Muslim fundamentalist party Al-Nahda. One of the other two winners is the Rally for the Republic– of long-time […]

Juan Cole

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Sefat: Top 10 ways OWS can Excel: Counsel from Iran’s Green Movement

Sefat: Top 10 ways OWS can Excel: Counsel from Iran’s Green Movement

Kusha Sefat writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Following the disputed Presidential election in Iran, our Western compatriots gave many suggestions on combating […]

Juan Cole

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If American Land were Distributed the way American Wealth Is

If American Land were Distributed the way American Wealth Is

The Congressional Budget Office confirms that the top 1% has tripled its income since 1979, while the upper middle class has increased its wealth much […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Is Syria in Civil War?

Is Syria in Civil War?

Robert Fisk uses the “C” word about Syria– Civil War. He takes seriously both the human rights organizations’ allegation that the regime has killed some […]

Juan Cole

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Grossman:  Call your Congressman and Save International Studies in the US!

Grossman: Call your Congressman and Save International Studies in the US!

The current House of Representatives don’t hold with Amurkins knowin’ ’bout furriners, and seems determined to defund federal support for international studies in the US. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Islamic Law not a problem in Bush’s Afghanistan & Iraq, but a Problem in Libya?

Islamic Law not a problem in Bush’s Afghanistan & Iraq, but a Problem in Libya?

George W. Bush said of Iraq and Afghanistan,, “I’d like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people…” The 2004 Constitution […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Namibia: Largest Solar Plant in S. Hemisphere Planned

Namibia: Largest Solar Plant in S. Hemisphere Planned

US-based SSI Energy Solutions plans to construct the largest solar power plant in the southern hemisphere in the southern African country of Namibia (population 2 […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Ambassador Ford’s Departure a Defeat for al-Assad

Ambassador Ford’s Departure a Defeat for al-Assad

With the departure of the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, from Damascus and the summoning home of Syrian ambassador Emad Moustafa, President Obama’s original […]

Juan Cole

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