strip away all the b.s. and this is pretty much what you get... juan cole... Shorter AFP: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will try to tell Binyamin Netanyahu, the far rightwing prospective prime minister of Israel, that he should allow the rebuilding of Gaza and start up a peace process that lead...

you simply MUST read juan cole's excellent analysis of the bush, olmert, rice, khalilzad intrigue related to the un security council cease-fire resolution on gaza... it's complete, insightful, and probably pretty damn accurate......

It's funny how for lefties, "blowback" is only something that happens when we take violent actions; never: "Hamas is experiencing blowback for launching thousands of rockets into Israel"; not "al-Qaeda is incurring blowback for pissing off the United States". Juan Cole is one of those academics pois...

Here is an update on the Israel-Palestine situation on Juan Cole's blog. It provides a good historical framework with new information, at least for me. Cole concludes that possibly the only way to bring some kind of end to the......

i am at a total loss to explain this without resorting to the most despicable of terms: genocide and war crimes... juan cole... Israel blames Hamas for primitive homemade rocket attacks on the nearby Israeli city of Sederot. In 2001-2008, these rockets killed about 15 Israelis and injured 433, and t...

it ain't pretty... civilian casualties in two separate incidents... At least 13 Afghan police and civilians have died in two incidents involving international forces, officials say. Four Afghan police and five civilians died in an apparently mistaken air strike by international coalition forces in F...

i've noticed that professor cole is becoming much less reticent to mince words... David Addington, Cheney's legal capo, can't say whether he authorized waterboarding because he is afraid that al-Qaeda might be watching C-Span. Al-Qaeda is this crew's excuse for everything that they always wanted to ...

this is the nightmarish reality of iraq... juan cole chronicles the horrific results of our illegal war in iraq and laments that a death toll of well over one million rates nary a blip on our home television screens, yet we collectively wring our hands over the disasters in iowa, missouri, myanmar, ...

as well it should... look at what the u.s. is asking for... no wonder the iraqis are pissed off (see my post from saturday)... it's even uniting the sunnis and the shiites in a common cause... juan cole... Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that both Sunni and Shiite Iraqis have united to reject the draft o...

Just as New Orleans's Ninth War will still be a moonscape when Bush goes out of office, so will Iraq. Sadly, it's looking less, and less, likely that we will see him exit the White House, handcuffed, in a perp walk - as he so richly deserves. Mostly due to a brain-dead, Constitution-blinders-firmly-...