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Juan Cole

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Mentally Ill Trump Thinks It's Funny to Joke About Iran Bombing US Cities Into Oblivion

Mentally Ill Trump Thinks It's Funny to Joke About Iran Bombing US Cities Into Oblivion

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06.10.2026 5

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

The Best Propaganda Money Can Buy Can't Convince Americans to Like Trump's Iran War

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01.09.2026 9

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Spoiled Rotten Donald Trump Can't Buy His Way Out of the Mess He Made When He Started War With Iran

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19.08.2026 50

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Sen. Graham's Legacy: He Helped Israel Get Away With Genocide

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15.07.2026 10

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Embrace the US-Iran MOU, But Understand It's Only a First Step

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15.06.2026 10

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

​Trump Is Playing War Crime Roulette With the Livability of the Persian Gulf

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11.06.2026 20

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Without a US-Iran Peace Deal, the World Is Headed for an Energy Crisis Apocalypse

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06.06.2026 10

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

We Need More Brave Flotillas to End Israel's Genocide in Gaza

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23.05.2026 30

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

The Strait of Hormuz Oil Crisis Is the Biggest Ever

After British troops had beaten German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tank forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt on November 4, 1942,...

13.05.2026 60

CounterPunch

Juan Cole

How the Working Families Party Can Promote Black Political Independence

Anthony Conwright

12.05.2026 20

The Nation

Juan Cole

The Rapid-Fire Political Education of Zohran Mamdani

D.D. Guttenplan

12.05.2026 20

The Nation

Juan Cole

This Is Why the Hormuz Crisis Is Different From Other Oil Crises

Juan Cole

12.05.2026 20

The Nation

Juan Cole

Choking on Trump's Gas Prices? Electric Vehicles Are the Heimlich Maneuver

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12.05.2026 20

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

The Winner of Trump's Iran War? Iran

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08.04.2026 20

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Trump and the Return of the White Man’s Burden

Under President Donald J. Trump, the United States has now become an engine for the promulgation of White nationalism. Not since the 1930s has such an...

13.03.2026 60

CounterPunch

Juan Cole

Trump's White Nationalism Will Only Lead to Division, Poverty, and Mass Violence

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12.03.2026 20

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Trump Is Right to Discuss His Gaza Peace Plan and the Melania Film in the Same Speech

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment...

21.02.2026 30

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Electricity Prices Down 30% in Australia Expose Idiocy of Trump's Attacks on Wind, Solar

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16.02.2026 60

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Trump's Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Are Pure Hypocrisy

05.02.2026 30

The Nation

Juan Cole

Fascist Trump Has No Moral Authority to Criticize Iran

03.02.2026 20

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow

The pro-democracy protesters in Iran deserved so much better. They deserved the support of a democratic United States that could sincerely urge the...

03.02.2026 30

CounterPunch

Juan Cole

Backward American Capitalism (and Trump) Are Getting Electrical Vehicles All Wrong

26.12.2025 30

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

AI Will Only Intensity Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don't Care.

05.12.2025 20

The Nation

Juan Cole

200+ Luminaries Back Demand for Israel to Free Marwan Barghouti

04.12.2025 20

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Amnesty Confirms What It's Plain to See: Israel's Genocide in Gaza Continues

30.11.2025 30

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

The War of the AI Moguls on Climate Science

In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the...

25.11.2025 40

CounterPunch

Juan Cole

Why Is Bill Gates Attacking Climate Science?

Silicon Valley has a financial reason for wanting to slow down the global movement to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

25.11.2025 30

Truthout

Juan Cole

Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Hot Tub of Death

25.11.2025 40

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Hurricane Melissa Was a Third More Powerful Due to Human-Driven Climate Chaos

01.11.2025 30

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

Israel’s Wreaking of Devastation From the Sky Is Vintage Colonialism

17.10.2025 40

The Nation

Juan Cole

Terror from the Skies in the Middle East

Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the blood of...

16.10.2025 40

CounterPunch

Juan Cole

Israel's Air-Power Colonialism

14.10.2025 50

Common Dreams

Juan Cole

With Trump, the US Is Getting a Taste of Its Own Medicine

01.08.2025 30

The Nation

Juan Cole

Trump Brings the Authoritarianism We Propped up in the Middle East Back Home

24.07.2025 30

Common Dreams

Juan Cole