Juan Cole on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Reading in the New Millennium: Forward to the Past?

2012-01-03T18:13:00+00:00

I know many Americans do not read any books once they’re out of school or college. But some do, and what they read has been shaped not only by changing tastes but by availability. The availability consideration is being revolutionized.

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How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War

2011-11-22T09:32:00+00:00

University students, who face tuition hikes and state cuts to public education, find themselves victimized by the same neoliberal agenda that has created the current economic crisis, and which profoundly endangers democratic values.

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Protest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism

2011-11-12T20:26:00+00:00

If you are wondering why outraged young people around the globe are chanting such similar slogans and using such similar tactics, it is because they have seen more clearly than their elders through the neoliberal shell game.

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Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East

2011-11-01T07:54:00+00:00

As someone who has been running for president for many years, Romney should by now know something about foreign policy and he should know where he stands.

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Juan Cole on Palestinian Statehood

2011-09-29T09:00:00+00:00

This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Juan Cole reports from New York on Occupy Wall Street and Palestinians at the U.N. Also: The politics of immigration; women still earn less than men, and a jury convicts the Irvine 11. Pictured above, Nawaf Salam, Lebanon’s ambassador to the U.N.

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Palestine Vote Showcases the Decline of American Power

2011-09-27T09:27:00+00:00

It is often the little things that trip up empires and send them spiraling into geopolitical feebleness.

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President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

2011-08-16T07:57:00+00:00

A review of Michele Bachmann’s messianic and irrational foreign policy statements reveals a potential president looking for other conflicts, especially with Iran.

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The New Sputnik

2011-05-10T20:04:00+00:00

In 1957, a United States shocked by the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite bounced into action to compete on the world stage. More than 50 years later, in May of 2011, the U.S. is facing a new challenge.

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