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Cole: Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria
Znet Article, May, 23 2013
Juan Cole
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Not since the end of the Cold War in 1991 has the Russian Bear asserted itself so forcefully beyond its borders
Cole: The Lotto Symbolizes the False Promises of Barracuda Capitalism, and it Won’t make you Happy to Win
Znet Article, May, 21 2013
Juan Cole
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One of the social control mechanisms deployed in a plutocracy to keep people quiet while their pockets are being picked is the lottery
Cole: Obama Must Make Fighting Climate Change National Project, Or Die The Death Of A Thousand Scandals
Znet Article, May, 18 2013
Juan Cole
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Climate change is the one area where public policy undoubtedly could do enormous good for people’s lives
Cole: Hawking Joins Academic Boycott of Israel
Znet Article, May, 10 2013
Juan Cole
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Physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the annual President’s Conference in Jerusalem this year has been confirmed
Cole: The Conservative Logic of Ferguson’s Smears of Gays, Muslims, Obama and Krugman
Znet Article, May, 08 2013
Juan Cole
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Contemporary conservatives do not want to admit that government plays an indispensable set of economic roles
Cole: Why Obama Doesn’t Want To Intervene In Syria
Znet Article, May, 06 2013
Juan Cole
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Obama said we don’t know who used the chemical weapons or to what extent. That isn’t building a case for intervention, it is knocking it down
Cole: The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World
Znet Article, May, 04 2013
Juan Cole
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In many countries solar is at grid parity -- it is as inexpensive to build a solar plant as a gas or coal one
Cole: The Changing Map Of Europe And The Middle East For The Last Thousand Years, In 10 Minutes
Video, April, 29 2013
Juan Cole
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The changing map Of Europe and the Middle East for the last 1,000 years, in 10 minutes
Cole: Terrorism and the other Religions
Znet Article, April, 24 2013
Juan Cole
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It takes a peculiar sort of blindness to see Christians of European heritage as “nice” and Muslims as inherently violent
Cole: CNN Fail: Imaginary “Dark Males,” “Accents,” and “Arrests” Haunt Reporters
Znet Article, April, 19 2013
Juan Cole
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Almost nothing the experienced CNN television reporters said was true
Cole: Can The Boston Bombings Increase Our Sympathy For Iraq And Syria, For All Such Victims?
Znet Article, April, 17 2013
Juan Cole
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Having experienced the shock and grief of the Boston bombings, cannot we in the US empathize more with Iraqi victims and Syrian victims?
Cole: The Top other thing Netanyahu Needs to Apologize For: The Gaza Blockade
Znet Article, March, 25 2013
Juan Cole
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A UN Report out last month predicts that if Israel does not change its policies toward Gaza, the strip will be uninhabitable by 2020
Cole: What We Did to Iraq
Znet Article, March, 22 2013
Juan Cole
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The US public was always carefully protected by its media from full knowledge of what the US government did to Iraq
Cole: Egypt on the Brink
Znet Article, March, 07 2013
Juan Cole
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Egypt has lurched from crisis to crisis in the wake of the Feb. 14, 2011 overthrow of the Mubarak regime
Cole: “Argo” As Orientalism And Why It Upsets Iranians
Znet Article, February, 27 2013
Juan Cole
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Ben Affleck’s otherwise fine, Oscar-winning film, “Argo,” about the escape of some US embassy personnel, functions as American propaganda and a sort of neo-Orientalism
Cole: Why Tunisia’s Arab Spring is in Turmoil
Znet Article, February, 11 2013
Juan Cole
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On Friday, tens of thousands of Tunisians took to the streets to protest the shocking assassination of leftist, secular politician Chokri Belaid earlier this week
Cole: Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo
Znet Article, February, 07 2013
Juan Cole
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The memo ratifies the Bush/Cheney theory that the whole world is a battlefield on which the US is continually at war
Cole: UN to look into US Drone Program, but the Biggest Victim is Democracy
Znet Article, January, 29 2013
Juan Cole
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The US use of armed drones in northern Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen is now being investigated by the United Nations as a human rights abuse or even a war crime
Cole: Egypt: The People Still Want the Fall of the Regime
Znet Article, January, 28 2013
Juan Cole
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Many of the protesters are demanding revisions to the hastily-passed, fundamentalist-leaning constitution, and are demanding that Morsi step down
Cole: Frankenyear 2012: Hottest on Record, as US emits 5 bn tons of CO2 Annually
Znet Article, January, 10 2013
Juan Cole
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The temperatures set records in 19 states and they were warmer than average in all of the lower 48
