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How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied
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How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied

Juan Cole

Occupied people do not have rights, and they do not even have the right to have rights. They are lesser.

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

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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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Iraq Petroleum Crisis Bahr Al Ulum

Iraq Petroleum Crisis Bahr Al Ulum

Iraq Petroleum Crisis Bahr al-Ulum Forced Out Drivers in Baghdad are waiting in lines a quarter of a mile long, according to the NYT, as […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Petroleum Production Suffocating

Iraq Petroleum Production Suffocating

Iraq Petroleum Production “Suffocating”: Bahr al-Ulum An informed observer writes: ‘ Reuters reports that “average exports in November fell to 1.21 million barrels a day […]

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Middle East And America In 2005 How

Middle East And America In 2005 How

The Middle East and America in 2005: How the Region Has Changed The Bush administration has several major policy goals in the Middle East, which […]

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International Team To Assess Elections

International Team To Assess Elections

International Team to Assess Elections Al-Hakim meets Talabani In Baghdad, , AP reports that the International Mission for Iraqi Elections will send a team of […]

Juan Cole

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10 20 Dead In Failed Terrorist Prison

10 20 Dead In Failed Terrorist Prison

10-20 Dead in Failed Terrorist Prison Break Sunni Arabs Demonstrate Against Election Results in Samarra Prison guards killed between 4 and 16 inmates when some […]

Juan Cole

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Kurds Plan To Seize Kirkuk Militarily

Kurds Plan To Seize Kirkuk Militarily

Kurds Plan to Seize Kirkuk Militarily: Knight Ridder Tom Lasseter of Knight Ridder reports that the Kurds have seeded 10,000 peshmerga militiamen into the Iraqi […]

Juan Cole

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Over 10000 Sunnis Secularists March In

Over 10000 Sunnis Secularists March In

Over 10,000 Sunnis, Secularists March in Baghdad against Election Results; Al-Hakim meets Kurdish Leaders AP reports that in Iraq, over 10,000 mainly Sunni Arab demonstrators […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Myths About Iraq In 2005 Iraq

Top Ten Myths About Iraq In 2005 Iraq

Top Ten Myths about Iraq in 2005 Iraq has unfortunately become a football in the rough and ready, two-party American political arena, generating large numbers […]

Juan Cole

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Over 20 Dead 46 Wounded In Guerrilla

Over 20 Dead 46 Wounded In Guerrilla

Over 20 Dead, 46 Wounded in Guerrilla War; Governor of Diyala Wounded in Assassination Attempt Sunnis Threaten Boycott A wave of guerrilla bombings and apparently […]

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