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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.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 18, 2018 Trump tries to counter CIA Leak on Bin Salman complicity in Khashoggi Murder
Trump attempted on Saturday to push back against his own Central Intelligence Agency's assessment that Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his brother Khalid (the Saudi ambassador to the US) were behind the assassination at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 13, 2020 Trump's "WMD" Scandal? Was the Charge of "Imminent" Soleimani Attack Just Made Up?
The Trump administration's claims that it assassinated Gen. Qasem Soleimani because he posed an imminent threat to American lives and was coming to Baghdad to launch an immediate attack on the US embassy there have fallen apart.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, May 31, 2019 A Wroth Mueller Comes for Nancy Pelosi: Rashida Tlaib is Right
When Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) colorfully called for us to "impeach the" mofo, Pelosi called her in and told her to stick to "representing her district." Mueller knows that however big a disaster an impeachment of Trump might be for American politics, letting him continue in office is far more dangerous. Mueller spent his life putting criminals behind bars, and he knows that Trump is a criminal who has committed criminal acts.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 6, 2019 Iraqi Gov't Teeters as Protest Death toll Rises to 100, with 4,000 Wounded
The youth protesters are upset about the spoils system in the Iraqi government, whereby the parties with the most seats are given cabinet ministries in which they hire party members. They are upset about the government's inability to deliver basic services or sufficient jobs. They are exercised about severe corruption.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 22, 2019 Bribery & High Crimes and Misdemeanors: Did Trump finally go Full Impeachable in Ukraine Calls?
Trump may have broken two laws if the reporting on this incident is correct so far. One was to offer Zelensky a bribe, which is explicit constitutional grounds for impeachment. The other was to solicit campaign contribution of sorts from a foreign national. Surely that would fall under "high crimes and misdemeanors."
SHARE Saturday, October 19, 2019 No, Trump's Withdrawal from Syria is not Like Obama Leaving Iraq
Trump makes the Mad Hatter look like the sanest, soberest person in the world. He has single-handedly started back up the Syrian civil war. In essence, Trump is playing the role in Syria that ISIL played in Iraq, of saboteur.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 3, 2018 If Giuliani's right Trump lied about Porn Star Hush Money, why believe him on Iran?
A president who serially lies is a particular problem for foreign policy. Trump is on the verge of pulling out of the 2015 Iran Deal, in part on the grounds provided by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in his stunt retailing old intelligence before 2003 which he attempted to portray as relevant to 2018. Trump appears to have bought the lie, what with being truth-challenged and all.
SHARE Monday, July 4, 2022 This Right-Wing U.S. Supreme Court Is the New King George III
The Trump Supreme Court self-evidently does not believe in these principles of liberty and pursuit of happiness on which the United States was founded. The justices hold that we have no right to personal autonomy or bodily privacy and liberty.
SHARE Thursday, August 8, 2019 White al-Qaeda, Trump and Economic Terrorism against El Paso
The people of El Paso also understand something most outsiders do not. Both Trump's rhetoric and the shooter's murders target El Paso's economy in classic terrorist style. Singling out and demonizing an ethnic group is the first step toward attempting to destroy them.
SHARE Sunday, March 31, 2019 Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return
Despite occasional UN condemnation of the Israeli blockade on Palestinian civilians (which is illegal in international law, especially given that Israel is still the Occupying Power in Gaza), the world has turned a blind eye to this ongoing Israeli atrocity. That the world would remain silent about these criminal tactics is unimaginable.