BREAKING: Chalabi out of running for Iraq PM
From Juan Cole: Breaking News: Jaafari PM Candidate for UIA Well, the United Iraqi Alliance held its internal vote among the 140 party members who got seated in parliament, and just announced that...
View ArticleSocial Security: Save It - Don't Replace It [Updated with Poll]
Joe Conason of salon.com has weighed in today on the Social Security battle with the recommendation that the Democrats come up with their own plan. He claims that the Republicans will blame the...
View ArticleI LOVE TEXAS!!!
Okay, maybe love is too strong a word. Maybe I just don't hate Teaxs anymore. Maybe it's the rum and coke talking (diet coke, but bacardi 151 rum - eeeeeeeeeeeeehhhaaaaaaaaaa!). I have said some mean...
View ArticleThe Death of Bob Johnson's Diary
I was there. I watched as it happened. I want to share with you the last, sad moments of Bob Johnson's diary. Please turn the page...
View ArticleJeb Bush Tries to Snatch Terri's Body. Not Kidding!
There is a diary on this, which I am pimping (does that mean I get half the mojo?). The diary is right here. Please click. It is not clear if the Florida State Department of Law Enforcement and the...
View ArticleI'm such a fucking idiot
We have argued ourselves into exhaustion that the war in Iraq is extrordinarily dangerous to the US, in addition to being based on falsehoods. That it is exactly what Osama bin Laden wanted. That Iraq...
View ArticleToday's diversion - the little Cessna that could
You may think that this is tin-foil territory, but it is interesting that the Cessna that violated the sovereign airspace of D.C. and caused F-16's to roar over the Capitol and sent government...
View ArticledKos asks what to do in Iraq and Juan Cole answers!
In a diary last weekend there was a spirited discussion on whether or not the US should negotiate with the Iraqi insurgents and whether or not the US should leave Iraq asap. I argued that a civil war...
View Article[UPDATED] Autism - Vaccines are poisoning our children with mercury
An article by RFK Jr. in today's Salon shows that thimerosal, a preservative contained in vaccines given to children in the US until last year, is the cause of the gigantic increase in autism in US...
View ArticleJuan Cole's response regarding "the UN Option"
Cross-posted at BoomanTribune.com Recently the noted historian, middle east expert, and blogger opined that a pullout of US troops from Iraq could be accomplished by way of a UN Option. This marks...
View ArticleAnother Republican congressman against the war!
As he told the Chicago Tribune: “The administration should clarify its intent’ he said. ‘People lack confidence in the credibility of our government.’ Even our allies are beginning to suspect what we...
View ArticleWhat does al Qaeda want? UPDATED
Cross-posted at Booman Tribune I had another informative, and this time amusing, email interchange with Juan Cole. It started out seriously enough with this email: "Mark"...
View ArticleThe Pet Scapegoat
Cross-posted at BoomanTribune.com I loved the negative press on Rove so much that I headed right down to the corner store to get an actual hardcopy of the SF Comicle, the one with Rove's face taking up...
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Spectacular Juan Cole post on the Middle East Mess *UPDATED*
I think Prof. Cole has outdone himself this time. From his post today: Fisking the "War on Terror" Once upon a time, a dangerous radical gained control of the US Republican Party. Reagan increased the...
View ArticleDo you wear glasses? [With Poll]
I do, have since 5th grade. I have noticed that many of my fellow students in college and grad school did as well. Let's get some stats with the poll. Does anyone have info on the fraction of people...
View ArticleJuan Cole Interview - What do you want to know??
Crossposted at BoomanTribune.com As some of you may recall, University of Michigan Professor and Middle East expert Juan Cole (whose work I have been pimping shamelessly here for the past few months)...
View ArticleMarkinsanfran seyz Recommend this diary! [UPDATED]
Not this one, this one: Astonishing NYTimes front pg: FAA alerted in '98 on Qaeda. From said diary: American aviation officials were warned as early as 1998 that Al Qaeda could "seek to hijack a...
View ArticleIraq - My Interview with Juan Cole
As some of you may have read, I was planning to travel to the University of Michigan and do an interview with Prof. Juan Cole, the noted expert on the Middle East and proprietor of the blog Informed...
View ArticleIraq - A Conversation with Juan Cole - Video Interview
As some of you may have read, I was planning to travel to the University of Michigan and do an interview with Prof. Juan Cole, the noted expert on the Middle East and proprietor of the blog Informed...
View ArticleMarkos and Juan Cole - Fantastic Video Interview!
I just finished watching Kos's interview on Evolve TV. Kos really does a great job interviewing Cole, and Cole really explains what has gone on, and what is now going on, in Iraq and the middle east in...
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