Mexico Fully Recognizes Palestine as an Independent State, welcomes formal Palestinian Embassy
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History Prof, U Michigan: Global affairs, Environment, Progressivism, Lit., Pop Culture, Spirituality; jricardocole threads.net; @jricole@mastodon.social
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Oslo, the Capital of Norway, Announces boycott of Goods Produced in the Israeli-Occupied Territories
You don’t have the faintest idea what Muslim belief is; you are apparently incapable of reading contextually twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/s
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As a social scientist, are you saying that is a weighted sample or a sufficient ‘N’? And would we really investigate Islam as a religion that way alone? And if I challenged you on your knowledge of Christianity would you reply that you are good friends with Richard Dawkins? twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/s
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The US press also made Reagan and Bush sound more coherent than they were. And they keep prefacing 'analysis' of some Trumpism by saying 'this president' says X, giving respect to their own construct
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Would be nice if US reporters also highlighted this and stopped normalizing his crazy. twitter.com/maggieNYT/stat…
Don't miss my new book, ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires,’ (Nation Books, Oct. 2018); order now! John Esposito says ‘Best book I’ve read in years’
On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)
whiteness covers a multitude of sins
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As a mob raided the Capitol, a Capitol Police officer gave them directions to Chuck Schumer's office, per this Times report: "But they could not find Mr. Schumer’s office. He said they asked a Capitol Police officer, who tried to direct them." nyti.ms/3ou2PcH
Texas Wind turbines went right on Turning under Harvey’s impact, as Refineries Shut Down
How did we Become so Backward? S. Korea has US Equivalent of 1,311 Coronavirus Deaths as we hit 16,000
Look at the work of Robert Pape at U Chicago. There have been hundred os secular such attacks. It is a tactic deployed by people who view themselves as under foreign occupation thenation.com/article/heres-
Ilhan Omar represents 708,000 people in a district that voted for her by 78.2%; nobody elected Lou Dobbs to anything at all & he represents 1 white nationalist Australian billionaire
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Lou Dobbs on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "Who is she representing? Because it isn't America" mm4a.org/4EN
75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032
The Stupidity of Evil: Teens Shouting 'Build that Wall' at Native American Vet -
A Fourth Woman has contacted Montgomery County with Kavanaugh Rape Allegations -
US Embassy in Baghdad Invaded after SecState Pompeo Slashed Security Funding, Took no Preventive Steps in wake of US Airstrikes -
he should have to pay us that much for therapy to get that smirk out of our minds
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Judge dismisses $250 million lawsuit from MAGA teen bit.ly/2GBvJnr
The War on Terror is over
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MSNBC beats Fox in key ratings for first time in 17 years | TheHill thehill.com/media/422929-m
On how Everything Sam Harris says about Islam is Wrong: Part 2 on “Unbelievers”
Since 2002, Right-wing White Terrorists have Killed More Americans Than Muslim Extremists - juancole.com/2015/06/terror
Every popular movement in the Middle East demanding parliamentary democracy since 1876 has been opposed by the West and often resulting gov't's have been overthrown by invasions or covert ops; only Tunisia has survived
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Iraq & democracy do not easily coexist. Whether b/c of history, demography, religion, pol culture, outside influence, and/or something else, it was the wrong place (& arguably there was no right one) to project American ambitions for a transformed MidEast. washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e
Did the National Enquirer blackmail Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Protect the Saudi Crown Prince?
Trump’s App’t of Nauert at U.N. is a National Security Threat to the U.S.
my increasing fear is that large numbers of Americans are so poorly educated because of tax cuts pushed by people like the Lincoln Project that they do not know how to read a graph and this means nothing to them
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Donald Trump might not know it, but this is his resignation letter.
huge story blacked out by wall to wall election speculation
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Something like 80% of New Orleans is without power and many won't have lines repaired for 3-5 days. For context if you're not seeing this on the news, Zeta is the strongest hurricane in recorded history to have its eye directly pass over New Orleans.
Trump tries to Camouflage Muslim Ban with a Few Venezuelans and N. Koreans
Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. It has a civilian enrichment program, making fuel for its Bushehr reactor. This inexcusably shoddy reporting in NYT is the kind of thing that got us into the Iraq War
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Breaking News: Iran’s top nuclear scientist was fatally shot in northern Iran, state media reported. He was seen as the force behind its nuclear weapons program. nyti.ms/2KFUe7D
40% of California Grid Power from Solar, Sometimes Costs less than Nothing juancole.com/?p=167805
Hillary Clinton goes full Neocon at AIPAC, Demonizes Iran, Palestinians juancole.com/?p=159351
it isn't a settler boom; it is the state-backed theft of others' property, encouraging squatting on it, and implementing race segregation
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Israel continues settlement boom, issuing 2,500 tenders for new settler homes just before Biden inauguration bit.ly/3sJTZdm
Top 5 Reasons We must, despite Trump, change the name of Fort Bragg, since Braxton Bragg was a horrible Human Being
Arab-Americans, including 'Watan' Newspaper, Endorse Bernie Sanders - juancole.com/2016/04/arab-a
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This super-spreader type event hit the Iranian government last spring, striking cabinet members & 10% of parliament. Theocrats.
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The number of senior level Republican government officials who have contracted the coronavirus is growing by the hour. I don't think there's a parallel in the developed world to what the United States is going through right now.
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George Will pretended to be a journalist while personally helping prep the addled far right wing Ronald Reagan for a presidential debate. There’s a straight line from that to Trumpism and Will owes the country an apology before he can pose as a member of the resistance
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From George Will, one of the most brutal assessments of any sitting president I’ve ever read: washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-
What if Israelis attacked the Basilica of St. Peter on Easter? That's how Muslims feel about Assault on al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem - juancole.com/2021/05/israel
Facebook illegally sold your private data to Bob Mercer and Steve Bannon so they could put Trump in the White House
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Weird & extraordinary to see this. Facebook fined $5bn. As direct result of our reporting. FTC’s biggest fine ever. Yet such is scale & size of company, it means *nothing*. Stock price actually surged on news. Facebook is well & truly out of all control
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Says the man who systematically distorted the documents on Benghazi
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Replying to @nickschifrin
.@SecPompeo on Saudi investigation into #Khashoggi: "We're going to give them the space to complete their investigations. And when they issue their reports, we'll form our judgment about the thoroughness, depth, and the decisions they make about accountability connected to that"
the Qur'an
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Name something people have strong opinions on, but actually know little about.
Sanders, AOC, Tlaib Threaten to Cut Israeli Funding if Netanyahu Annexes 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank -
Don't encourage him
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Trump says Afghanistan and Pakistan pose the worst terrorist threat to America. Interesting his travel ban applies to neither country.
Dirty, Hot, Deadly: The Real Trump Scandal is What He’s done to the Environment
Trump’s Worst Nightmare: Mueller’s Grand Jury Subpoena’s Russia Documents
Could Africa skip Pipelines straight to Solar Panels?
Canada’s Trudeau calls for inquiry into Israeli Killings in Gaza
#NottheEnemy: Ben Franklin warned that attack on Free Press Turns Liberty to Tyranny
Everyday War Crimes: Israeli PM Netanyahu Gets COVID Vaccine, Squatters get Vaccine, but Not Occupied Palestinians -
Dear Trump: CO2 is Polluting our Atmosphere and Acidifying our Water: They aren't "the Cleanest" -
Oh come on. What bullshit. They were mocking and blocking Phillips. The MAGA hats might be a clue twitter.com/rezaaslan/stat
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In anti-Trump surge, Renewables make 18% of US electricity & impel job growth - juancole.com/2018/02/renewa
Is Kushner Covering for Bin Salman Murder Charge so Israel can Usurp Palestinian West Bank?
When I started my blog, which I suppose was my crank move, I thought all tenured professors would have one. Then I realized that publicly standing for Palestinian rights and human rights generally, and debunking gov't propaganda, was like voluntary exile from polite society
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Do you know anyone who has used tenure to improve working conditions in academia, fight adjunctification, create lobbies in DC, improve public understanding of what academia is, etc.? Or is the point of the added security merely for writing weird crank books? twitter.com/DrFrancisYoung…
Sanders joins Striking Verizon Workers: says to CEOs, "I welcome their Contempt" - juancole.com/2016/04/as-san
Floridians with Solar Inverters had Electricity after Irma & other Green energy success stories
Bravo - we should refuse to speak of nonexistent voting fraud & speak of real voter suppression
Gov. Rick Scott enabled Irma's Fury through Climate Denialism & Should Resign - juancole.com/2017/09/enable
How Morocco Could use its Solar Energy and abundant Phosphorous to Feed the World and Offset Russia juancole.com/2022/07/morocc via
The American Tragedy: Veteran Rams Hindu Family, thinking they were Muslims, in Sunnyvale
The Bernie Sanders Miracle: American Crowd in Brooklyn Cheers Palestinian Dignity - juancole.com/2016/04/the-be
Now do Yemen
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#BREAKING US Senator Lindsey Graham wants no-fly zone in Syria's Idlib 'to save thousands of innocent men, women, and children from a horrible death'
Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment
Joe Biden on PBS NewsHour early Feb 2011: "I don't think it would be fair to call Mubarak a ... dictator."
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Not everyone has the moral clarity of your boss, who sides with the Contras, Saudi Arabia, and Netanyahu. twitter.com/AndrewBatesNC/…
This is illegal; the United Nations should be in Geneva
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The Trump administration is barring @JZarif from entering the United States this week to address the UN Security Council about the killing of Soleimani, report @columlynch and @RobbieGramer foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/06/tru
Sufi Boxer Muhammad Ali's last fight was against Extremism & Politicians' Islamophobia - juancole.com/2016/06/extrem
Were Humanity's Oldest Monumental Religious Sites Erected in NW Saudi Arabia? 1,000 'Rectangles' Older than Stonehenge - juancole.com/2021/05/monume
on average violent crime rates in the US have fallen for 40 years. apparently watching television is correlated with belief to the contrary
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"A new Pew survey found that violent crime is now the fifth-most important issue for votes, with 59% listing it as 'very important' to their vote. For context, it’s nearly as important to Americans as the coronavirus, which ranks fourth with 63%"
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Israel-Palestine 2 state solution is like 2 people negotiating over a chocolate cake while one of them is tied to a chair and the other is at the table eating the cake t.co/5HSXoTMphw
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Macron’s Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn’t note Dehumanization
“Lansing is more interested in passing an English-only bill than ensuring Michiganders have a good education in English.” Ypsi rally
Yes, Biden needs to Cancel Student Debt up to $50K: Society and Employers should pay for College to begin With, like High School
