They discuss Cole’s career, ranging from his upbringing in a military family to becoming a leading public intellectual during the Iraq War
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Impatient Rebels Critique NATO Aid
Gen. Abdelfatah Yunis, the commander of rebel military forces in Benghazi expressed dissatisfaction on Tuesday with the pace of the NATO/ UN intervention in his […]
Amnesty Int’l: United Nations Must Reject Israeli Campaign to Avoid Accountability for Gaza War Crimes
This came to me as a news release from Amnesty International: Amnesty International Public Statement Tuesday, April 5, 2011 United Nations Must Reject Israeli Campaign […]
UN Allies Strike Convoy near Brega as Rebels begin Oil Exports
NATO airstrikes near the oil city of Brega (Marsa al-Buraiqa) on Tuesday morning repelled the advance of an 8-vehicle military convoy of Qaddafi loyalists. The […]
Japan Nuclear Woes Galvanize Indian Protests
Indian peasants in Maharashtra are protesting plans to build a nuclear plant on an earthquake fault at Jaitapur. India has an ambitious set of plans […]
Libyan Rebels Aspire to Democracy
The USG Open Source Center translates an article about a rebel news conference in which they lay out their vision of Libya’ future: Libya’s TNC […]
Crackdowns Against Arab Spring Continue
1. Tens of thousands of protesters are said to have come out in the Yemeni city of Taizz on Monday, but were fired on by […]
Libyan Rebels Grateful to West, say Qaddafi Psycho
The USG Open Source Center translates radio broadcasts on Sunday of the Voice of Free Libya Radio, which is based in Benghazi: ‘ Libyan Rebel […]
Westbrook: Half-Measures in Libya will Fail
Here is David A. Westbrook’s guest column for Informed Comment It is in many ways a critique of the position Juan Cole has taken, that […]
Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Libya and the end of NATO
I have a set of questions for Glenn Greenwald. I ask them in the spirit of open and reasoned dialogue and am genuinely interested in […]
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