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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America
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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America

Juan Cole

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

01/03/2026 By The Conversation

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

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Congress Needs to Pass some Laws on controversial issues

Congress Needs to Pass some Laws on controversial issues

The thing that concerns me most about the investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogators is that US law served as such a poor guide to […]

Juan Cole

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Shiite Fundamentalist Coalition Announced Al-Maliki Might Not win Second Term

Shiite Fundamentalist Coalition Announced Al-Maliki Might Not win Second Term

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that five major Shiite fundamentalist parties along with some other personalities and small parties have announced the National Iraqi Alliance, the […]

Juan Cole

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Regime Broadcasts Baathist Confession re: Bombings;

Regime Broadcasts Baathist Confession re: Bombings;

Wissam Ali Kadhem Ibrahim was put on television in Iraq confessing his role in last Wednesday’s bombings. The former Baathist official described an operation that […]

Juan Cole

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Silverman: Religion and Politics in Iraq: What Type of Sectarianism Really Exists?

Silverman: Religion and Politics in Iraq: What Type of Sectarianism Really Exists?

Adam L. Silverman writes in a guest op-ed for IC The recent increase in political violence in Iraq has once again led to renewed discussions […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Differences Between Bush & Obama First 7 Months

Top Ten Differences Between Bush & Obama First 7 Months

Obama, unlike Bush: 1. Has no plans to invade any new oil countries.2. Knows who president of Pakistan is3. Knows how to safely consume pretzels4. […]

Juan Cole

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Obama's Fate as much in the Balance as Afghan Presidential Candidates

Obama’s Fate as much in the Balance as Afghan Presidential Candidates

The Financial Times argues that the final judgment on how upright the Afghan elections were matters enormously to the Obama administration. If the US public […]

Juan Cole

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Bush Admin. worse than our Nightmares

Bush Admin. worse than our Nightmares

It was worse. Back in the bad old days of Bush’s corrupt gang, we on the left were pilloried for suggesting that the administration was […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan: 50 Dead on Election Day, with Low turnout in Some Districts

Afghanistan: 50 Dead on Election Day, with Low turnout in Some Districts

Violence that left some 50 dead, and a relatively low turnout in some provinces marred Afghanistan’s presidential election on Thursday. McClatchy reports that the largest […]

Juan Cole

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6 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan; War Loses Majority Support

6 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan; War Loses Majority Support

The US military announced on Wednesday that 6 US troops had been killed in Afghanistan. As Afghans go to the polls in what is being […]

Juan Cole

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