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Znet Article Cole: Erdogan Clears Gezi Park Protesters, sets Stage for Polarization

Znet Article, June, 17 2013 Juan Cole
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Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday evening into Sunday morning had police deploy water cannon and tear gas (some say laced with pepper spray) to clear Gezi Park

Znet Article Cole: It’s the Corporations, Stupid: Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count

Znet Article, June, 13 2013 Juan Cole
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Snowden upheld the Constitution and our basic Fourth Amendment rights. But there’s no corporation in his corner, so he is up the creek

Znet Article Cole: PRISM: The US Government Is Mad At Bradley Manning For Doing To It What It Is Doing To All Of Us

Znet Article, June, 09 2013 Juan Cole
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It turns out that Manning, in making government correspondence available for us to read, was just turning the tables on the US government

Znet Article Cole: Defiant Erdogan Risks Turkish Economy, as Unions enter the Fray

Znet Article, June, 05 2013 Juan Cole
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is now risking Turkey’s economic miracle by his imperious reaction to the protests in dozens of cities that have roiled Turkey

Znet Article Cole: Taksim Square Protests in Turkey Spread to other Cities, Police accused of Brutality

Znet Article, June, 01 2013 Juan Cole
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Protests at Taksim Square in Istanbul that began by opposing the privatization of a park took on a different life when they were met with a disproportionate response by police

Znet Article Cole: The Coming Israeli-Russian War?

Znet Article, May, 30 2013 Juan Cole
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Unless the Russians or the Israelis blink, they have by their rhetoric put themselves on a potential war footing

Znet Article Cole: President Obama and Counter-Terrorism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Znet Article, May, 25 2013 Juan Cole
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Here are the good, the bad and the ugly things in President Obama’s important speech on counter-terrorism

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Video 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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?

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

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