Stories by Juan Cole
Juan Cole is a professor of history at the University of Michigan and maintains the popular blog Informed Comment.
The latest, as violence flares up across Iraq.
Posted on Mar 28, 2008
There are three major conflicts in Iraq -- and the U.S. is virtually powerless to stop them.
Posted on Mar 6, 2008
The passage of the new law will be hailed by the War party as a major achievement. But as usual they're misreading what really happened.
Posted on Jan 14, 2008
Romney's "landmark" speech didn't follow in Kennedy's footsteps -- it was the antithesis of JFK's call for religious tolerance.
Posted on Dec 9, 2007
Texas oil cronies readying to clean up.
Posted on Sep 10, 2007
Juan Cole slices and dices the administration's spin.
Posted on Sep 1, 2007
There are times when the resonances of history are positively eerie. The parallels of Napoleon's occupation of Egypt with Bush's disaster in Iraq are enough to make you jump out of your chair.
Posted on Aug 25, 2007
Iraqi-Turkish relations are strained, and the Kurds pass an oil law before the national government in Baghdad.
Posted on Aug 8, 2007
Sunnis, Civil War, Sadr and the prospects of 'victory.'
Posted on Dec 29, 2006
Shiite leader Ayatollah Sistani's call for a ceasefire should be heeded, or else the U.S. military mission in Iraq could quickly become untenable.
Posted on Aug 3, 2006
Juan Cole chastises Christopher Hitchens and tells warmongers to 'sit down and shut up.'
Posted on May 5, 2006
Despite Bush's new national security report, it's clear that Iran presents little threat, so the administration must have other motivations.
Posted on Mar 17, 2006
President Bush and his supporters are taking credit for spreading freedom across the Middle East. But where changes are genuinely occurring they have nothing to do with the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Posted on Mar 19, 2005
The details behind the ballyhooed elections – that Bush first opposed them and then postponed them for his own benefit – tend to get lost in the media's boosterism.
Posted on Feb 2, 2005
In a new video, bin Laden indicts Bush for still hiding the truth from Americans, saying that the reasons for attacking the U.S. are still there. In other words, Bush has not made us safer.
Posted on Oct 30, 2004
The so-called handover is merely a symbolic act that does little to alter the daunting reality on the ground. The only move that could bring real change is the complete withdrawal of the United States.
Posted on Jun 28, 2004
The man who will determine the shape of the new Iraq is not Iyad Allawi but Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. The good news: He's no Khomeini.
Posted on Jun 10, 2004
The problem of war images from Iraq alienating Iraqis and Arabs has dogged the Bush administration from the start of the war. Now, the administration is losing the battle of images with the American public, as well.
Posted on May 3, 2004
