The Power of Right-Wing Slime: Juan Cole turned down for Yale Job
Body: Chicago Dyke had confidence in the integrity of academia, but as it turns out, not so much: Juan Cole, one of the country’s top Middle East scholars, was poised for the biggest step of his career.
View ArticleHow Many Ways to Skin a Cat?
Body: Here is a useful discussion that drives home a couple points I like to make whenever we discuss what "our options" are in Iraq, and in dealing with emerging Islamic powers around the world. Here...
View ArticleWhat the Saudi King Said: Juan Cole's Observations
Body: I was waiting to see what Juan Cole had to say about this matter from yesterday, as he is The Source on the ins and outs of politics in this entire region. He did not let me down:
View ArticleNPR is teh suck
Body: The Gonzales coverage on Morning Edition was just appalling. First, they lead with a quote from Spector. No Democrats quoted at all. That's been a continuing pattern--you'd think that Leahy...
View ArticleCreative Ways to End the War in Iraq
Body: Juan Cole's Modest Proposal (emphases mine):I don't try to start an internet campaign very often, because the blogosphere has its own priorities and logic that are democratic and should not be...
View ArticleBush-CIA’s Attempted SmackDown of Prof. Juan Cole’s Truth-Based Iraq War Dissent
Body: First Amendment: Protects the freedom of religion, speech, and the press, as well as the right to assemble and petition the governmentFourth Amendment: Prohibits unreasonable searches and...
View ArticleSTOP NSA! Authoritarianism Ending Individualism!
Body: Re the NSA scandal, Obama postures that he wants to open a CRIMINAL investigation of what amounts to an information leakage on his own CRIMINALITY in defying our first, fourth and fifth amendment...
View ArticleIsrael’s ‘Defensive Military Op’ Really Ethnic Cleansing
Body: Bill Van Auken in “Air strikes kill civilians as Israel prepares new Gaza bloodbath” calls out Jen Psaki, US State Department spokesperson who, after declaring that the Zionist regime of Israel...
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