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Znet Article Engelhardt: The Women's Movement in the Middle East

Znet Article, April, 27 2011 Tom Engelhardt
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Women have been and often remain at the forefront of those protests

Znet Article Cole: An Open Letter to the Left on Libya

Znet Article, March, 29 2011 Juan Cole
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As I expected, now that Qaddafi’s advantage in armor and heavy weapons is being neutralized by the UN allies’ air campaign, the liberation movement is regaining lost territory.

Znet Article Cole: Scenarios for Egypt’s Future

Znet Article, February, 12 2011 Juan Cole
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Hosni Mubarak is gone to the wild elation of Egyptian crowds.

Znet Article Cole: The Corruption Game

Znet Article, January, 31 2011 Juan Cole
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What the Tunisian Revolution and WikiLeaks Tell Us about American Support for Corrupt Dictatorships in the Muslim World .

Znet Article Cole: "Egypt is a Praetorian Regime"

Znet Article, January, 29 2011 Juan Cole
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The Arab world has seen, in the last three decades, a series of Arab nationalist regimes, relatively secular, which have become increasingly sclerotic.

Znet Article Cole: Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War On Lebanon, Gaza

Znet Article, January, 04 2011 Juan Cole
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Israel could have a peace treaty with Syria and Lebanon tomorrow by giving back the Golan Heights and the Shebaa Farms, and by accepting a two-state solution.

Znet Article Cole: Obama in Asia

Znet Article, November, 13 2010 Juan Cole
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Blocked from major new domestic initiatives by a Republican victory in the midterm elections, President Barack Obama promptly lit out for Asia, a far more promising arena.

Znet Article Cole: Could Wikileaks Leave Iraq Without A Government?

Znet Article, October, 25 2010 Juan Cole
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The wikileaks document dump from the Iraq War may well derail the formation of a government by implicating caretaker prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in running death squads.

Znet Article Cole: Palin Fear-Mongers On Iran, Sharia

Znet Article, October, 18 2010 Juan Cole
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Republican gadfly Sarah Palin said in an interview with Newsmax Tuesday that Russia should be warned against helping Iran because if Iran got a nuclear weapon it would bring about Armageddon.

Znet Article Cole: The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened

Znet Article, September, 14 2010 Juan Cole
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The Pakistan flood in the mainstream media

Znet Article Cole: An Israeli Attack On Iran Would Reduce Barack Obama To A One-Term President

Znet Article, August, 18 2010 Juan Cole
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What should a poor warmongering Neoconservative do? This political grouping includes WASPS such as former CIA director James Woolsey and former UN ambassor John Bolton, but at its core is politically active and extremely wealthy Jewish former Demo...

Znet Article Cole: McChrystal Drama Is Sideshow

Znet Article, June, 25 2010 Juan Cole
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The Daily Telegraph in the UK talked to a senior congressional figure late Tuesday or very early Wednesday ET, who said that Gen. Stanley McChrystal had submitted his resignation in advance of Wednesday’s meeting at the White House between him and...

Znet Article Cole: Iran's Green Movement: One Year Later

Znet Article, June, 12 2010 Juan Cole
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How Israel's Gaza Blockade and Washington's Sanctions Policy Helped Keep the Hardliners in Power

Znet Article Cole: Ahmadinejad Blasts Medvedev Over UNSC Sanctions

Znet Article, May, 30 2010 Juan Cole
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The Iranian newspaper Tabnak reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a speech on Wednesday, took a hard line with Russia and also pressured the US to accept the deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil on Iranian low enriched uranium.

Znet Article Cole: Iraq: National Unity Government Or Return To Sectarianism?

Znet Article, March, 30 2010 Juan Cole
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Patrick Martin of the Toronto Globe and Mail gets the diction right when he says that Iyad Allawi's list won a thin plurality. The official results of the March 7 Iraqi parliamentary elections have been announced by the Independent High Electoral ...

Znet Article Cole: Major Iraqi Parties Anxious Over Possible Massive Ballot Fraud

Znet Article, March, 01 2010 Juan Cole
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Iraqis go to the voting booth on Sunday, March 7, to elect the second full-term parliament (4 years) since the fall of the one-party Baath regime in 2003. Given the turmoil surrounding last summer's elections in Iran and Afghanistan, with massive ...

Znet Article Cole: Five Questions For The Afghan Surge

Znet Article, February, 24 2010 Juan Cole
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Gen. David Petraeus, a straight shooter, admitted on Meet the Press Sunday that the Afghanistan War will take years and incur high casualties.. His implicit defense of President Obama from Dick Cheney on the issues of torture and closing Guantanam...

Znet Article Cole: Iraqi Appeals Court Upholds Ban On Secular, Nationalist Candidates

Znet Article, February, 16 2010 Juan Cole
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A string of bombings on Sunday targeted political offices of those parties willing to contest the March 7 parliamentary elections, including secular Sunnis. The violence comes as one more worry in the course of Iraq's most controversial election.

Znet Article Cole: Gates Strikes Out In Pakistan

Znet Article, February, 06 2010 Juan Cole
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates's trip to Pakistan this weekend has in many ways been public relations disaster, and I think it is fair to say that he came away empty-handed with regard to his chief policy goals in Islamabad. Getting Pakistan...

Znet Article Cole: Could The Pakistani Government Fall Over Karachi Violence?

Znet Article, January, 13 2010 Juan Cole
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The ongoing political turmoil in a major Pakistani city to which few Americans pay much attention could nevertheless prove pivotal to the Obama administration's AfPak project.

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