Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghrebi at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that tens of thousands of Israelis participated on Sunday evening in […]Al Jazeera English Video: “Israelis hit the streets en masse to demand captive deal”
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What would America be like if it was like Gaza? On October 8, 2023, the Alien invasion long feared by […]
What would America be Like if it was Like Gaza?
This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain discuss the trajectory of the U.S. long war in the Middle East with Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan and a longtime writer and commenter on the region. Cole discusses the basis of the ongoing U.S.–Israel security relationship, the perspective of anti-Israel militant groups in the region, and the prospects of the expansion of the war despite the Biden administration’s stated desire to keep it contained.”
Source: Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at “Intercepted”
Trump’s presidency was trivial, having no accomplishments but one give-away of billions to his cronies in the form of a tax cut. It was so predictable. He seems to have sat around all day in his pajamas watching Fox Cable News and spewing out nonsensical tweets. He spent a third of his time playing golf, and went out on the hustings telling his 30,000 trivial lies. The evil my title is because of the real damage Trump has done. But trivial little mosquitos can give people malaria.
Source: Trump and the Triviality of Evil
Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson excused one of the leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers organization implicated in the January 6th insurrection by describing him as “a devout Christian.” It’s safe to surmise that he wouldn’t have offered a similar defense for a Muslim American. Since September 11th, and even before that ominous date, they have suffered bitterly from discrimination and hate crimes in this country, while their religion has been demonized. During the first year of the Trump administration, about half of Muslim Americans polled said that they had personally experienced some type of discrimination. No matter that this group resides comfortably in the American mainstream, it remains under intensive, often unconstitutional, surveillance. In contrast, during the past two decades, the Department of Justice for the most part gave a pass to violent white supremacists. No matter that they generated more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil than any other group. The benign insouciance of the white American elite toward such dangerous fanatics also allowed them to organize freely for the January 6th assault on the Capitol and the potential violent overthrow of the government.
It is time to look back at 2021 and consider the most consequential developments, as covered here at Informed Comment.
This groundbreaking volume fills a gaping hole in the literature on global peace movements, bringing to the fore the many peace movements and peacemakers of the Muslim world. From Senegalese Sufi orders to Bosnian women’s organizations to Indian Muslim freedom fighters who were allies of Mahatma Gandhi against British colonialism, it shows that history is replete with colorful personalities from the Muslim world who made a stand for peaceful methods.”
Source: You heard that Right – “Peace Movements in Islam” – Juan’s new Book Challenges Stereotypes
CO2 emissions don’t cause hurricanes, but they do heat up water, which puts more moisture in the atmosphere and feeds the strength and speed and longevity of hurricanes. Warm water expands (pay attention, Breitbart; I know you failed 8th grade chemistry because you were sniffing glue in the toilet), which raises the sea level. Global heating also melts surface ice, which likewise raises sea level. Higher sea level contributes to higher storm surges. Climate scientist Michael Mann explains at the Scientific American, which the Breitbart folks can’t read because it is hard to hold a magazine while dragging your knuckles on the ground. Mann points out that for every degree C. of warming, you get a 26 foot per second increase in wind speed. The 2019 world average surface temperature is up nearly one degree from the 1950-1980 average.
via Failing Breitbart Comes for Juan Cole on Climate History and it Won’t Go Well
John Bolton helped lie our country into an illegal war of aggression that killed several hundred thousand Iraqis, wounded over a million, and displaced 4 million from their homes, helped deliver Baghdad into the hands of Iran, and helped create ISIL, which blew up Paris. In a just world, Bolton would be on trial at the Hague for war crimes. Instead, he has been promoted into a position to do to Iran what he did to Iraq.
via Let’s Call Bolton What He Is: A War Criminal with Terrorist Ties, Not Just “Hawkish”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In his unhinged news conference on Tuesday, Trump equated what he …
Source: Fascism in Charlottesville: Why it had a monopoly on violence & Intimidation
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – German Chancellor Angela Merkel ran rings around Trump at the G20 …
Source: G19 outmaneuvers climate Rogue Trump, ignores Donald & Ivanka
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Syrian Civil War has a domestic, a regional and an …
Source: Trump intervenes in the Great Mideast Civil War in Syria | Informed Comment
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – – One-man fake news channel Sean Spicer, Trump’s spokesman, said Wednesday that anyone …
Source: Spicer: Trump can Criticize Iraq War but no one can Slam Trump’s Yemen Raid
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The hysteria about Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and …
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald J. Trump has picked another fight with the elders of …
Source: Circus of Liars: How Trump & GOP are Twisted into Pretzels over Putin Hack
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It is 2017, and shortly the White House will be inhabited …
Source: Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House | Informed Comment
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In 2016, the Middle East continued to be a major focus …
Source: Top Eight Mideast Stories of 2016 that Shaped our World | Informed Comment
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