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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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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...
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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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.
Cole: Serial Catastrophes in Afghanistan threaten Obama Policy
Znet Article, January, 06 2010
Juan Cole
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You probably won't see it in most US news outlets, but on Monday morning in Kabul and Jalalabad, hundreds of university students demonstrated against US strikes this weekend that allegedly killed a number of civilians. I want to underline the iron...
Cole: Iran and Nuclear Latency
Znet Article, October, 09 2009
Juan Cole
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When you tool around the blogosphere and the news sites, the discourse about Iran's nuclear program is maddeningly contradictory. But I think a single hypothesis can account for all the known facts...
Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!
Znet Article, July, 29 2009
Juan Cole
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Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant Western capitals for more than a century. That's certainly one for the reco...
Cole: Stealing the Iranian Election
Znet Article, June, 15 2009
Juan Cole
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Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen...
Cole: What to Do About Guantanamo?
Znet Article, May, 25 2009
Juan Cole
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The US Congress is refusing to allow President Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, a symbol of torture and abuse. Apparently their vote was driven by fears of public backlash if those detained were brought to prisons in the US. Obama had fai...
Cole: The Great Right-Wing Freak-Out
Znet Article, April, 14 2009
Juan Cole
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Symptoms of the conservative crack-up were on full display after President Obama's trip abroad. Bill Kristol, take a bow.
Cole: Obama's Domino Theory
Znet Article, April, 04 2009
Juan Cole
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Obama broke with his pledge of straight talk to the public and fell back on Bush-style boogeymen and implausible conspiracy theories.
Cole: Engaging the Muslim World
Znet Article, March, 17 2009
Juan Cole
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Juan Cole, a longtime analyst of US-Mideast affairs and a professor of history at the University of Michigan, takes an in-depth look at US foreign policy under the Obama administration, from the plan for withdrawal from Iraq, to the escalation of ...
Cole: Top Ten Myths about Iraq, 2008
Znet Article, December, 28 2008
Juan Cole
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The top ten myths...
Cole: The FBI’s Plan to ‘Profile’ Muslims
Znet Article, July, 12 2008
Juan Cole
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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...
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
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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...
