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Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?
Bahrain

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers – Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities

You Deserve Better, Iran

You Deserve Better, Iran

03/03/2026 By contributors

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

03/03/2026 By Norman Solomon

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Afghanistan
Gates:  Winding down the Wars

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 […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Top Ten Mistakes in the Libya War

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 […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Maddow on Bloggergate

Maddow on Bloggergate

Warm thanks to Rachel Maddow for her cogent reporting on the Bush White House/ CIA plot to “get” Cole. As she notes, I was a […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Feinstein: Senate Intel Committee May Investigate CIA Targeting of Cole

Feinstein: Senate Intel Committee May Investigate CIA Targeting of Cole

Senator Diane Feinstein says that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence may open an investigation into allegations that the Bush White House attempted to use […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Carle and Cole on CNN: More Details about Bush/CIA Sting of Cole

Carle and Cole on CNN: More Details about Bush/CIA Sting of Cole

Below is a transcript of an interview by Eliot Spitzer on CNN’s “In the Arena” with Glenn Carle and Juan Cole concerning the Bush White […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Repeal the PATRIOT Act is the Lesson of Bush White House Spying

Repeal the PATRIOT Act is the Lesson of Bush White House Spying

Very unfortunately, President Obama just signed a four-year extension of the so-called PATRIOT Act, with three central provisions that permit warrantless spying by government agencies […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Cole on Goodman & CIA Surveillance

Cole on Goodman & CIA Surveillance

With something like being put under CIA surveillance by the Bush White House, you keep thinking to yourself, as in an old argument, about the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Ret’d. CIA Official Alleges Bush White House Used Agency to “Get” Cole

Ret’d. CIA Official Alleges Bush White House Used Agency to “Get” Cole

Eminent National Security correspondent at the New York Times James Risen has been told by a retired former official of the Central Intelligence Agency that […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Women to Protest Driving Ban in Saudi Arabia

Women to Protest Driving Ban in Saudi Arabia

Despite its vast oil wealth and the measures the kingdom has taken to buy off potential dissidents, Saudi Arabia is nevertheless not completely able to […]

Juan Cole

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