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Juan Cole is an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (juancole.com) which is also syndicated on Truthdig.com.
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Final Defeat of the John Bolton Hawks? Russia and China could humiliate Trump Eve of Election Lifting Iran Arms Embargo Trump is about to go up against China and Russia at the United Nations Security Council over the looming end to the UNSC arms embargo on Iran, and is facing a humiliating defeat that will further harm the US standing in global affairs.
Thursday, June 25, 2020Final Defeat of the John Bolton Hawks? Russia and China could humiliate Trump Eve of Election Lifting Iran Arms Embargo Trump is about to go up against China and Russia at the United Nations Security Council over the looming end to the UNSC arms embargo on Iran, and is facing a humiliating defeat that will further harm the US standing in global affairs.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The Ostrich Policy: Trump ready to Kill Hundreds of Thousands to avoid bad Coronavirus Optics for Election Trump and Pence on Monday were busy trying to spread the Big Lie that the only reason the US coronavirus numbers are spiking is increased testing.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020The Ostrich Policy: Trump ready to Kill Hundreds of Thousands to avoid bad Coronavirus Optics for Election Trump and Pence on Monday were busy trying to spread the Big Lie that the only reason the US coronavirus numbers are spiking is increased testing.
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Monday, June 15, 2020
Tucker Carlson Rises to Defense of Confederates who Killed 360,222 Federal Troops, 100x more than Al-Qaeda Last week Sen. Elizabeth Warren led a successful bipartisan effort to amend the National Defense Act this year to require that Confederate symbols be removed from US military bases and that the bases named for horrible people like Braxton Bragg be renamed.
Monday, June 15, 2020Tucker Carlson Rises to Defense of Confederates who Killed 360,222 Federal Troops, 100x more than Al-Qaeda Last week Sen. Elizabeth Warren led a successful bipartisan effort to amend the National Defense Act this year to require that Confederate symbols be removed from US military bases and that the bases named for horrible people like Braxton Bragg be renamed.
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
All the Lies Trump told the West Point Graduates about American Militarism Trump endangered the health of the graduating class at West Point -- for the purposes of a photo op for his reelection campaign by insisting on bringing them back to campus. He gave an alarming performance in which some observers saw an advancing dementia and during which he had difficulty lifting a glass of water.
Sunday, June 14, 2020All the Lies Trump told the West Point Graduates about American Militarism Trump endangered the health of the graduating class at West Point -- for the purposes of a photo op for his reelection campaign by insisting on bringing them back to campus. He gave an alarming performance in which some observers saw an advancing dementia and during which he had difficulty lifting a glass of water.
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Saturday, June 13, 2020
Another Screw-Up: Iraq announces Gradual US Troop Withdrawal, in Aftermath of Trump's Strike on Local Generals Trump clearly wants to be able to run on having won the war against ISIL in the Fertile Crescent and against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and it is rumored that he wants out of Afghanistan completely by September 1. It remains to be seen if he will decide he wants to be able to boast he got the US out of Iraq, as well.
Saturday, June 13, 2020Another Screw-Up: Iraq announces Gradual US Troop Withdrawal, in Aftermath of Trump's Strike on Local Generals Trump clearly wants to be able to run on having won the war against ISIL in the Fertile Crescent and against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and it is rumored that he wants out of Afghanistan completely by September 1. It remains to be seen if he will decide he wants to be able to boast he got the US out of Iraq, as well.
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Monday, June 8, 2020
George Floyd and Mohamed Bouazizi: What Americans can Learn from Tunisia's Arab Spring If US protesters are going to be as successful as the Tunisian ones, they must get real legislative changes. And the biggest hope for those changes on a national scale is to get Trump out of the White House in November and to take the Senate away from the Republicans.
Monday, June 8, 2020George Floyd and Mohamed Bouazizi: What Americans can Learn from Tunisia's Arab Spring If US protesters are going to be as successful as the Tunisian ones, they must get real legislative changes. And the biggest hope for those changes on a national scale is to get Trump out of the White House in November and to take the Senate away from the Republicans.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020
How American cities were Reduced to Esper's "Battlespace": From Fallujah to Minneapolis Bush's war of aggression contained within itself the accumulated evil of the whole, and now that evil is spreading out to turn us all into Fallujans.
Wednesday, June 3, 2020How American cities were Reduced to Esper's "Battlespace": From Fallujah to Minneapolis Bush's war of aggression contained within itself the accumulated evil of the whole, and now that evil is spreading out to turn us all into Fallujans.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The Second Time as Farce: Donald Trump and James Madison and the Defense of the White House Trump called out the military police to expel protesters illegally from LaFayette Park near the White House, so that he and his imperial coterie could walk to St. John's Episcopal Church, Trump could briefly raise a Bible, and then they could walk back.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020The Second Time as Farce: Donald Trump and James Madison and the Defense of the White House Trump called out the military police to expel protesters illegally from LaFayette Park near the White House, so that he and his imperial coterie could walk to St. John's Episcopal Church, Trump could briefly raise a Bible, and then they could walk back.
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Sunday, May 31, 2020
Roots of Anger: Top 3 Reasons African-Americans have Lost Most in the Coronavirus Depression Some of the anger we see in US cities is a revolution of rising expectations. African-Americans were just beginning to experience some wage growth in recent years. That has just been wiped out.
Sunday, May 31, 2020Roots of Anger: Top 3 Reasons African-Americans have Lost Most in the Coronavirus Depression Some of the anger we see in US cities is a revolution of rising expectations. African-Americans were just beginning to experience some wage growth in recent years. That has just been wiped out.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally) Neither mail-in voting nor the outrageous accusations against Scarborough is the really urgent issue on Twitter. Trump's inaction in late February on the coronavirus and his push in May for a premature opening of the economy, along with his discouragement of the wearing of face masks are getting large numbers of people killed.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally) Neither mail-in voting nor the outrageous accusations against Scarborough is the really urgent issue on Twitter. Trump's inaction in late February on the coronavirus and his push in May for a premature opening of the economy, along with his discouragement of the wearing of face masks are getting large numbers of people killed.
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Monday, May 25, 2020
On Memorial Day: How the US Lost its "Battle of Aqaba" to the Coronavirus On Memorial Day, we have nearly 100,000 dead in the coronavirus pandemic and 38 million abruptly unemployed, we have entire US industries hanging on by a thread.
Monday, May 25, 2020On Memorial Day: How the US Lost its "Battle of Aqaba" to the Coronavirus On Memorial Day, we have nearly 100,000 dead in the coronavirus pandemic and 38 million abruptly unemployed, we have entire US industries hanging on by a thread.
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Saturday, May 23, 2020
Top 4 Reasons Trump is playing to Evangelicals by Demanding Church Reopening at cost of Mass Infection Trump has never been exactly what you would call a church-going man, preferring seedy trysts with porn stars and Playboy bunnies and barging into the dressing rooms of unclothed beauty contestants. So his alleged concern for church openings isn't moved by the holy spirit but more like the lowly spirit.
Saturday, May 23, 2020Top 4 Reasons Trump is playing to Evangelicals by Demanding Church Reopening at cost of Mass Infection Trump has never been exactly what you would call a church-going man, preferring seedy trysts with porn stars and Playboy bunnies and barging into the dressing rooms of unclothed beauty contestants. So his alleged concern for church openings isn't moved by the holy spirit but more like the lowly spirit.
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Thursday, May 21, 2020
The End of the Oslo Accords: Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu's Sudetenland Moment Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced after a cabinet meeting that his government will move to implement the end of Palestinian cooperation with Israel and the United States and its withdrawal from all agreements it had signed with them.
Thursday, May 21, 2020The End of the Oslo Accords: Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu's Sudetenland Moment Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced after a cabinet meeting that his government will move to implement the end of Palestinian cooperation with Israel and the United States and its withdrawal from all agreements it had signed with them.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia? Trump summarily fired the State Department Inspector General, Steve Linick. While in US law as it now stands, the president has the power to fire pretty much anyone in the executive, if he fired Linick as an act of retaliation for one of Linick's investigations, that could be illegal.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia? Trump summarily fired the State Department Inspector General, Steve Linick. While in US law as it now stands, the president has the power to fire pretty much anyone in the executive, if he fired Linick as an act of retaliation for one of Linick's investigations, that could be illegal.
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Monday, May 18, 2020
Top 3 Ways Netanyahu's New Gov't in Israel is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen Israel's leaders have finally formed a government, after three elections that left the country in a political quagmire. The new government is a catastrophe.
Monday, May 18, 2020Top 3 Ways Netanyahu's New Gov't in Israel is a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen Israel's leaders have finally formed a government, after three elections that left the country in a political quagmire. The new government is a catastrophe.
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Friday, May 15, 2020
Dr. Bright to Congress: With 85,000 Dead, US Coronavirus Inaction threatens us with "Darkest Winter in Modern History" In his prepared testimony, Bright warned that if the Trump administration continued to mishandle the crisis we could face a second, bigger wave of the novel coronavirus this winter at the same time as flu season hits (flu seems to kill about 35,000 people in the US every winter). He said it could be "the darkest winter in modern history."
Friday, May 15, 2020Dr. Bright to Congress: With 85,000 Dead, US Coronavirus Inaction threatens us with "Darkest Winter in Modern History" In his prepared testimony, Bright warned that if the Trump administration continued to mishandle the crisis we could face a second, bigger wave of the novel coronavirus this winter at the same time as flu season hits (flu seems to kill about 35,000 people in the US every winter). He said it could be "the darkest winter in modern history."
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Pence, who urged Impeachment of Bill Clinton for Lying, Would join Trump in Welcoming Confessed Liar Michael Flynn back Vice President Mike Pence says he would be happy to have disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn back in the White House. Now is the time to remind everyone that in the 1990s, Mike Pence argued that President Bill Clinton should be impeached and removed from office for telling a lie. In his smarmy way, Pence then said it was a moral issue.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020Pence, who urged Impeachment of Bill Clinton for Lying, Would join Trump in Welcoming Confessed Liar Michael Flynn back Vice President Mike Pence says he would be happy to have disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn back in the White House. Now is the time to remind everyone that in the 1990s, Mike Pence argued that President Bill Clinton should be impeached and removed from office for telling a lie. In his smarmy way, Pence then said it was a moral issue.
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Sunday, May 10, 2020
Your Crazy Uncle Sam strikes again, Vetoing Global Peace to own the ChiComs On Friday, the US used its veto power to block a United Nations resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic. The resolution had been called for by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The move left all the other countries in the world shaking their heads in disbelief at the pettiness and unhinged character of American diplomacy under Trump.
Sunday, May 10, 2020Your Crazy Uncle Sam strikes again, Vetoing Global Peace to own the ChiComs On Friday, the US used its veto power to block a United Nations resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic. The resolution had been called for by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The move left all the other countries in the world shaking their heads in disbelief at the pettiness and unhinged character of American diplomacy under Trump.
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
Trump Vetoes War Powers Restrictions on Attacking Iran as "Insulting"-- as Iraq's new PM enters Crosshairs The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday voted in a new government headed by Mustafa al-Kadhimi. In his acceptance speech, al-Kadhimi pledged that he would not allow Iraq to become an arena for foreign interference and conflict, which may have been a shot across Trump's bow.
Thursday, May 7, 2020Trump Vetoes War Powers Restrictions on Attacking Iran as "Insulting"-- as Iraq's new PM enters Crosshairs The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday voted in a new government headed by Mustafa al-Kadhimi. In his acceptance speech, al-Kadhimi pledged that he would not allow Iraq to become an arena for foreign interference and conflict, which may have been a shot across Trump's bow.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Americans are Dying to Die: Guard shot for asking Customers to wear Mask as Trump's CDC predicts 3k death / day by June Trump is using his bully pulpit to applaud irresponsible governors who open up their states even before the number of cases begins declining (a 14-day decline is what the CDC recommends). The US, with 4 percent of the world's population, has over a fourth of the deaths.
Tuesday, May 5, 2020Americans are Dying to Die: Guard shot for asking Customers to wear Mask as Trump's CDC predicts 3k death / day by June Trump is using his bully pulpit to applaud irresponsible governors who open up their states even before the number of cases begins declining (a 14-day decline is what the CDC recommends). The US, with 4 percent of the world's population, has over a fourth of the deaths.
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