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Cole: The FBI’s Plan to ‘Profile’ Muslims
Znet Article, July, 12 2008
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have required the FBI to have some evidence of wrongdoing before it ope...
Barsamian: Invading the Middle East: Napolean to Bush
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
David Barsamian
Barsamian's ZSpace page
Juan Cole, a widely respected expert on the Middle East, teaches history at the University of Michigan. He is a guest on major news programs. He is the author of many books including Sacred Space and Holy War. His latest is "Napoleon’s Egypt." I t...
Cole: The Unraveling Of Pervez Musharraf's Presidency Has Dealt A Severe Blow To Bush's Fatally Flawed Policy In The Region
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
Feb. 20, 2008 | The party that slavishly supported Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf went down to a humiliating defeat in Monday's election, and took the failing fortunes of the Bush administration to a new nadir. Musharraf's main political riva...
Cole: Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007
Znet Article, December, 28 2007
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
10. Myth: The US public no longer sees Iraq as a central issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Goodman: Middle East Analyst & Historian Juan Cole on U.S. War Plans Against Iran, Turkey and His New Book "Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East”
Znet Article, October, 23 2007
Amy Goodman
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AMY GOODMAN: President Bush has asked Congress for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The request brings this year's total to more than $196 billion, by far the highest amount since the 9/11 attacks. If the trend continu...
Cole: Turning Ahmadinejad Into Public Enemy No. 1
Znet Article, September, 24 2007
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly has become a media circus. But the controversy does not stem from the reasons usually cited.
Cole: Pitching the Imperial Republic
Znet Article, August, 23 2007
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East. The Bush administration's already failed version of the conquest of Iraq is, of course, on everyone's mind; while the French conques...
Cole: Bush Comment on Najaf Farcical;
Znet Article, February, 02 2007
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
Bush Comment on Najaf Farcical;
Cole: Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches
Znet Article, April, 14 2006
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches
Cole: Fishing for a Pretext in Iran
Znet Article, March, 18 2006
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
On March 13, President Bush told an audience at George Washington University, “Coalition forces have seized IEDs and components that were clearly produced in Iran...Such actions--along with Iran’s support for terrorism and its purs...
Cole: At Hussein's Hearings, U.S. May Be on Trial
Znet Article, December, 01 2005
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
The ongoing trial of Saddam Hussein could prove increasingly uncomfortable for the Bush administration. The first crime of which the deposed dictator is accused, the secret execution of 143 Shiites arrested in 1982, seems an odd choice for the pro...
Cole: Throwing Grenades in the Global Economic Cockpit
Znet Article, October, 19 2005
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
[Note: The argument advanced here by Juan Cole has been addressed in three articles by Gilbert Achcar, posted on Juan Cole's site, as well as on ZNet: Achcar on Cole Proposals for Withdrawal of US Grou...
Cole: The Treasure, the Strongbox, and the Crowbar
Znet Article, October, 17 2005
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
The man who starts my every on-line day is standing at the door. He's small-framed with short, wavy hair and fragile-looking specs. Nattily dressed in a dark suit and tie, he apologizes, as he enters, for being so formally togged out on a Sunday m...
Cole: The U.S. Has Lost the Battle of the Photographs
Znet Article, May, 03 2004
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
The war of guns is only part of any great military enterprise. It is always supplemented by a war of words and, in the modern world, a war of images. The Bush administration, despite the savvy of its spinmeisters and Hollywood-trained publicists, ...


