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Archives: January 2017
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Turkey’s Syrian blowback
Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - With the New Year terrorist attack in Istanbul now being claimed by the Islamic State (IS) movement, it is clear that Turkey has suffered…![Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump’s Deportation Plans?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/can-popular-mobilization-sanctua-187x137.jpg)
Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump’s Deportation Plans?
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect's anti-immigrant scheme. President-elect Donald Trump built his…![GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump: McCain Says he Must ‘Stand Up’ to Putin](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/gop-russia-hawks-attack-trump-mc-187x137.jpg)
GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump: McCain Says he Must ‘Stand Up’ to Putin
TeleSur | - - On Friday, Trump congratulated Putin for not retaliating to Obama's expulsions. On the same day a top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said the White House may have…![Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/preparing-for-the-normalization-187x137.jpg)
Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - It is 2017, and shortly the White House will be inhabited by an unscrupulous, corrupt narcissist who has shamelessly mobilized the Neo-Nazi fringe…![No, it’s not a new Cold War: The USSR is Gone Forever](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/no-its-not-a-new-cold-war-the-us-187x137.jpg)
No, it’s not a new Cold War: The USSR is Gone Forever
By Ghia Nodia | (Project Syndicate) | - - MOSCOW – This New Year’s Eve marks the 25th anniversary of the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union. But, rather than celebrating, many…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/393363C-1-187x137.jpg)
2016: A deadly year in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory and Israel
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The past year has been one of the deadliest and most violent in recent years for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank…![Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Call a Lie a Lie If Trump Says It](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/wall-street-journal-wouldnt-call-187x137.jpg)
Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Call a Lie a Lie If Trump Says It
TeleSur | - - The paper is worried about objectivity, said WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker. The Wall Street Journal would not call a lie a lie if it was told by President-elect…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trumpme-1-187x137.jpg)
America’s Major Challenges in Middle East Policy, 2017
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The incoming Trump administration is riven by a profound division between those determined to avoid deep entanglements in the Middle East, such as…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/20161230-agent-orange--187x137.jpg)
Rethinking The Cost of War
By Mike Hixenbaugh for The Virginian-Pilot, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica | - - There are many ways to measure the cost of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War: In bombs (7 million…![2016 mean till the end: New Year’s Eve Massacre in Istanbul](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/2016-mean-till-the-end-new-years-187x137.jpg)
2016 mean till the end: New Year’s Eve Massacre in Istanbul
Aljazeera English | (Video News Report) | - - Aljazeera English: "Dozens killed in Istanbul nightclub shooting"![Palestine 2017: Time to bid farewell to Washington and embrace the globe](http://web.archive.org./web/20170103171730im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/palestine-2017-time-to-bid-farew-187x137.jpg)