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Juan Cole

Juan Cole is collegiate professor of history at the University of Michigan. He runs a news and commentary webzine on US foreign policy and progressive politics, Informed Comment. His new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires (Nation Books), has just been published.

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December 10, 2017
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Politics & Elections

Islamophobia Under Trump: The New McCarthyism

The Trump administration has made Muslims an enemy of the first order.
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Juan Cole,
TomDispatch
October 9, 2018
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Environment & Health

Israel’s Groundhog Day: Reverse Snowballs and the Horror of Lawn-Mowing

Ironically, the very mechanisms of economic sanction engineered by Israeli and pro-Israel lobbies against Iran and Syria are likely increasingly to be applied to Israel itself.
by
Juan Cole,
History News Network
July 20, 2014
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News Analysis

The Arab Millennials Will Be Back: Three Ways the Youth Rebellions Are Still Shaping the Middle East

Many of the millennial activists who briefly turned the Arab world upside down and provoked so many changes are putting their energies into non-governmental organizations.
by
Juan Cole,
TomDispatch
June 30, 2014
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Op-Ed

Juan Cole on the Vulnerability of the Network

There is much that is valuable in Mike Lofgren’s explication of vast network of unaccountable governmental and private institutions, which he calls the “Deep State.”
by
Juan Cole,
Moyers & Company
February 26, 2014
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War & Peace

Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster

It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians — and possibly in the long run among Americans, too. It might, in the end, even deeply…
by
Juan Cole,
TomDispatch
April 12, 2012
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Op-Ed

Reading in the New Millennium: Forward to the Past?

(Photo: The Daring Librarian) I’m a bibliophile of the first water. I have spent what seems half my life in bookstores all over the world. Some…
by
Juan Cole,
Truthdig
January 4, 2012
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How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War

The deliberate pepper-spraying by campus police of nonviolent protesters at UC Davis on Friday has provoked national outrage. But the horrific incident must not cloud the real question:…
by
Juan Cole,
Truthdig
November 22, 2011
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News Analysis

Protest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism

Occupy San Francisco, October 15, 2011. (Photo: Eric Wagner) From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the…
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Juan Cole,
TomDispatch
November 10, 2011
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Op-Ed

Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney before giving his first foreign policy speech as a presidential candidate in the Mark Clark Hall's Buyer Auditorium at The Citadel in Charleston,…
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Juan Cole,
Truthdig
November 6, 2011
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Op-Ed

The New Sputnik

In 1957, a United States shocked by the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite bounced into action to compete on the world stage. More than 50 years…
by
Juan Cole,
Truthdig
May 13, 2011
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