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Juan Cole

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Trumpocalypse

My name isn’t important, only what I have to say. I’m writing with a pencil because I need to conserve my batteries tonight. It’s Year 24 of Our...

23.01.2025 20

CounterPunch

Juan Cole

A Dispatch From the Trumpocalypse

A Dispatch From the Trumpocalypse
22.01.2025 4

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

With Airport Attack, Israel Is the Latest Country to Endanger Yemeni Lives

The Israeli doctrine of total war, in which civilian harm is completely disregarded, is now being applied to Yemen.

27.12.2024 10

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Syrians Finally Won the Arab Spring. Can They Avoid Pitfalls and Win Democracy?

Overthrowing a dictator is very difficult, but it is no guarantee of liberty.

08.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

The Fallout of Biden's Middle East Policy Is Now Trump's Responsibility

12.11.2024 3

The Nation

Juan Cole

President Biden’s Gaza Policy Leaves the Middle East in Flames

President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned...

12.11.2024 1

CounterPunch

Juan Cole

Biden’s Apocalyptic Middle East Failure: an Autopsy

By his insistence on impunity for the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden has left the Middle East in flames and the U.S. and...

11.11.2024 7

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

American Influence in the Middle East Is Evaporating Before Our Eyes

30.09.2024 10

The Nation

Juan Cole

The Path to Nasrallah's Assassination and What Lies Ahead

The Israeli government had long been determined to go into Lebanon and to wipe out Hezbollah—and perhaps to reoccupy the Lebanese south.

29.09.2024 3

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Is Undermining His Middle East Goals

The alliance of U.S. partners in the region with Israel against Iran that Washington has long worked for seems to be coming apart at the seams.

18.09.2024 2

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu

At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: the Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving the region in...

18.09.2024 30

CounterPunch

Juan Cole

The US Should Follow Australia Into the Sun

Here, in a country 13 times the size of Australia, only 4.5 million households have rooftop solar; to be at the same level as Australia, we’d need...

07.09.2024 2

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

US Media Weeps for Georgia School Shooting Victims, But Not Those Killed and Wounded in Gaza

The carnage and suffering inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli military is daily, so it has ceased being reported on at all.

05.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

UN Pleads for Gaza Cease-Fire to Administer Polio Vaccines. Israel Is Refusing

At the medical front in Gaza, the war to save the children is going very badly. It will be lost without a cease-fire.

24.08.2024 3

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Can Tim Walz Take Minnesota’s Climate Success National?

Minnesota’s numbers on renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and EV uptake are across the board better than those of the United States as a...

22.08.2024 3

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Political Violence: From 'Hang Mike Pence' to the Failed Assassination of Donald Trump

Political violence has brought our country to the most dangerous moment of its nearly 250-year history.

14.07.2024 8

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Is a US war in the Middle East coming? No, because it's already here

In mid-June, the Associated Press announced that the U.S. Navy had been engaged in the most intense naval combat since the end of World War II,...

14.07.2024 10

Salon

Juan Cole

The People of Gaza Starved as US Built a Public Relations Ploy in the Form of Pier

The entire operation took place as the Biden administration sat on its hands while the extremist Netanyahu cabinet imposed a famine on the...

12.07.2024 1

Common Dreams

Juan Cole