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Juan Cole

  • November 14, 2022

    Protecting climate

    One of the issues that drove America’s youth to vote in unusual numbers in the midterm elections, and to tilt heavily Democratic, is the climate...

  • July 26, 2022

    Not enough

    CNN and The Independent reported this week on a massive ice melt in Greenland, with on the order of 6 billion tons of ice lost in three days. The...

  • May 03, 2022

    Climate crisis

    A global wheat crisis has been caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war there, which has drastically reduced Ukraine’s wheat...

  • April 19, 2022

    Blood money

    The BBC reports that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, during an interview, accused Germany and Hungary of paying “blood money” for Russian...

  • September 21, 2021

    A tragic mistake?

    The Associated Press reports that the survivors of family members killed in a US hellfire missile strike on a civilian vehicle after US troops and...

  • June 08, 2021

    Targeting journalists

    The Israeli police took another step toward criminalizing journalism on Saturday when they arrested al-Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara...

  • May 12, 2021

    Toothless outrage?

    The planting of more and more squatter settlements on land owned by Palestinian families is among the actions that produced massive unrest in...

  • September 02, 2020

    Covid-19 and the US

    The US reported its sixth million coronavirus case, and deaths are headed toward 200,000. It is hard to explain just how bad the US death rate under...

  • June 09, 2020

    A war crime

    Arab48 reports that some 6,000 Israelis gathered in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the Netanyahu government's plan to annex one...

  • June 02, 2020

    On ‘subjects’

    In an interview with corrupt casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s free newspaper, Israel ha-Yom, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the...

  • May 06, 2020

    The reopen fanatics

    Roughly 1,264,000 US soldiers have died in all the wars this country has ever fought. A new simulation by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton...

  • February 27, 2020

    Terror in white

    Last Thursday, a racist extremist went to two shisha bars in Hanau, Germany, randomly shooting the people there. Since smoking hookah is a Middle...

  • February 13, 2020

    Reality of apartheid

    The Israeli government blockade on Palestinian agricultural exports through Jordan illustrates the Apartheid character of Israeli rule over the...

  • December 29, 2019

    While America slept

    In 2019, the Middle East was shaken by a new round of street revolts. As the year began, Abdelaziz Bouteflika had announced a fifth run for the...

  • December 19, 2019

    War crime

    Abeer Butmeh writes at Al Jazeera English that because of the Israeli blockade on Gaza, equipment for water purification has not been imported and...

  • December 11, 2019

    Grand larceny

    Interim Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu committed again on Sunday that his government will steal the entire Jordan Valley from the...

  • June 24, 2019

    Trump’s war

    The warmongers on Trump’s national security team apparently convinced him to set in motion an aerial strike against Iran on Thursday in...

  • May 02, 2019

    Hatred of all

    One person is dead and other victims are wounded after a shooting at a synagogue in San Diego on Saturday, which the mayor has branded a “hate...

  • January 24, 2019

    Wind power

    Wind power is falling rapidly in cost, with turbines becoming bigger and more efficient.Alexandre Jeanblanc at Investor’s Corner explains that...

  • November 13, 2018

    War and no peace

    Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, about which he knows almost nothing.The outbreak of that war in 1914 took many...