Juan Cole

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Blood money

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

  • 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...

  • Targeting journalists

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • On ‘subjects’

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Reality of apartheid

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Grand larceny

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Wind power

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

  • 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...