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Archives: History
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![How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/10/how-were-failing-the-u-s-citizen-187x137.jpg)
How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico
By Jill Richardson | (Otherwords.org) | - - Wanting federal aid in a natural disaster isn't wanting "everything done for you." It's what we should all expect. Hurricane-struck Puerto Rico wants “everything…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/file-20170919-12924-1w0026y-187x137.png)
How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes
By Levi Gahman and Gabrielle Thongs | (The Conversation) | - - Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked…![250px-Cairo_-_Islamic_district_-_Al_Azhar_Mosque_and_University](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/250px-Cairo_-_Islamic_district_-_Al_Azhar_Mosque_and_University-187x137.jpg)
Why we should be wary of Calls for an “Islamic Reformation”
By Todd Green | ( Mizan Project ) | - - This year marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Reformation in Germany, a monumental event in Christian history that generated permanent…![Syria’s Heritage, and the World’s, that the War Destroyed–From Palmyra to Castles](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/syrias-heritage-and-the-worlds-t-1-187x137.jpg)
Syria’s Heritage, and the World’s, that the War Destroyed–From Palmyra to Castles
Written by Alreem Kamal | ( GlobalVoices.org) | - - Syria's story is one that has been weaved through families from one millennium to the next. Subjugated as a Roman province under…![White Supremacy was already dying in the 1860s & can’t be Revived](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/white-supremacy-was-already-dyin-187x137.jpg)
White Supremacy was already dying in the 1860s & can’t be Revived
By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | - - One statue of Robert E. Lee that will probably remain standing is at the battlefield of Gettysburg. Here is an appropriate place for…![Trump on Barcelona: Recalls US War on Spain, Brutal Occupation of Filipino Muslims](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/trump-on-barcelona-recalls-us-wa-187x137.jpg)
Trump on Barcelona: Recalls US War on Spain, Brutal Occupation of Filipino Muslims
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A vehicular terror attack in Barcelona that left over a dozen people dead and 100 injured has been claimed by ISIL. Another terrorist…![The Historical Falsehoods That Feed White Supremacy](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/the-historical-falsehoods-that-f-187x137.jpg)
The Historical Falsehoods That Feed White Supremacy
Peter J. Hammer | ( Yes! Magazine) | - - Behind the racist slogans are historical tropes that the broader White America clings to, not just those who showed up for the…![What to do with Confederate statues?](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/what-to-do-with-confederate-stat-187x137.jpg)
What to do with Confederate statues?
James Glaser | (The Conversation) | - - Could Russia teach us something about how to deal with difficult aspects of our national history? Many places in the South – from New…![‘Locked & Loaded’ Trump’s 1960s Cowboyism re: N. Korea & Venezuela](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/locked-loaded-trumps-1960s-cowbo-187x137.jpg)
‘Locked & Loaded’ Trump’s 1960s Cowboyism re: N. Korea & Venezuela
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - If you were away from news on Friday, you might like to know that in addition to hot wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq…![Want Iranian Democracy? We had one & CIA overthrew it](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/07/want-iranian-democracy-we-had-on-187x137.jpg)
Want Iranian Democracy? We had one & CIA overthrew it
By Joseph McQuade | (The Conversation) | - - The US and Iran have a complicated relationship. At the moment, it is tense, divisive and delicate. Just over 60 years ago, things…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/dower_violent-2-180x137.jpg)
What can today’s Activists learn from the Summer of Love and the New Left?
Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/dower_violent-180x137.jpg)
First, the Soviets Collapsed: Is it America’s Turn Now?
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/file-20170530-23660-blxvj5-187x137.jpg)
Why Thomas Jefferson’s vision of American Islam matters today
Denise A. Spellberg | (The Conversation) | - - An estimated 3.3 million American Muslims are celebrating the month of Ramadan. It was during this month that Prophet Mohammad first received revelations…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/61GepBYfFnL._SY344_BO1204203200_-1-187x137.jpeg)
Was/Is there an Islamic Enlightenment? (de Bellaigue)
William Eichler interviews Christopher de Bellaigue | Informed Comment | - - Eichler: 1. In the conclusion to The Islamic Enlightenment you describe modern jihadists as “miracle-grow Muslims” who have been “incubated…![Alabama Passes Bill to Protect Confederate Monuments even at cost of Economy](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/alabama-passes-bill-to-protect-c-187x137.jpg)
Alabama Passes Bill to Protect Confederate Monuments even at cost of Economy
TeleSur | - - Some Southern cities are rethinking the appropriateness of keeping such emblems on public property. Not Alabama. Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that prohibits the removal of…![GOP Politician: ‘ISIS Has Won’ After Confederate Monument Removed](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/gop-politician-isis-has-won-afte-187x137.jpg)
GOP Politician: ‘ISIS Has Won’ After Confederate Monument Removed
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | Video News Clip | - - "Hey Confederates: your side lost. Yankees kicked your traitor slaver asses. Deal with it. Cenk Uygur, host of The…![Dear Marine Le Pen: Only a Fascist would Praise Colonialism . . . Oh Wait](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/dear-marine-le-pen-only-a-fascis-187x137.jpg)
Dear Marine Le Pen: Only a Fascist would Praise Colonialism . . . Oh Wait
Jessica Northey | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Marine Le Pen's declaration that colonialism was a positive thing is not only a denial of France's painful history, but an example of the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/9780520292154-639x960-1-187x137.jpg)
Mideast Partition Plans won’t Bring Peace, just Imperial Social Engineering
By Laura Robson | (Informed Comment) | - - The idea that partition and population exchange might represent “solutions” to Middle Eastern conflict, long advocated by a wide variety of observers and…![Washington’s demonization of Foes jumps Shark with Sean Spicer on Hitler](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010214005im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/washingtons-demonization-of-foes-187x137.jpg)