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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives
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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

H. Scott Prosterman

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

01/13/2026 By Human Rights Watch

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

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Live-Blogging 11:00 am Sorry I’m getting to the Brookings event on blogging, which is being webcast here, a little late this morning. One of the […]

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10 Killed In Iraq Sistani Impatient Ed

10 Killed In Iraq Sistani Impatient Ed

10 Killed in Iraq Sistani Impatient Ed Wong does his usual good job of reporting on developments in Iraq. The guerrilla war continued apace, with […]

Juan Cole

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Schiavo Case And Islamization of the Republican Party

Schiavo Case And Islamization of the Republican Party

The Schiavo Case and the Islamization of the Republican Party The cynical use by the US Republican Party of the Terri Schiavo case repeats, whether […]

Juan Cole

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45 Dead In Continued Guerrilla War

45 Dead In Continued Guerrilla War

45 Dead in Continued Guerrilla War Baghdad Pitched Battle Kills 24 AFP reports that violence in Iraq on Sunday left 45 dead in separate incidents. […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq And Vietnam Although Martin Van

Iraq And Vietnam Although Martin Van

Iraq and Vietnam Although Martin van Creveld in the Boston Review is pushing the analogy between Iraq and Vietnam (with Moshe Dayan in Saigon as […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Two Years Later Tom Engelhardt

Iraq Two Years Later Tom Engelhardt

Iraq Two Years Later Tom Engelhardt pulls it all together in his essay on the state of affairs in American Iraq. It is a comprehensive […]

Juan Cole

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Hariri And Al Qaeda Really I Dont Have

Hariri And Al Qaeda Really I Dont Have

Hariri and al-Qaeda? Really? I don’t have a dog in the fight about who killed Rafiq Hariri, but I don’t find the case for the […]

Juan Cole

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Wave Of Bombings In Middle East

Wave Of Bombings In Middle East

Wave of Bombings in Middle East (Revised). The continued instability in the Middle East yielded on Saturday a harvest of deadly bombings in the region. […]

Juan Cole

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Jaafari Iraq Headed Toward Religious

Jaafari Iraq Headed Toward Religious

Jaafari: Iraq headed toward Religious Law On the second anniversary of the launching of the Iraq War, crowds demonstrated throughout the world. Among the larger […]

Juan Cole

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