Stories by Juan Cole

Juan Cole is a professor of history at the University of Michigan and maintains the blog Informed Comment. subscribe to Juan Cole's feed

Detroit's Collapse Reveals the Awful Dystopia that the United States Is Becoming

Posted on: Jul 19, 2013, Source: Informed Comment

The Motor City's problems -- deindustrialization, robotification, long-term unemployment, racial division -- are America's problems.

Obama Has Good Reason Not to Intervene in Syria

Posted on: May 2, 2013, Source: Informed Comment

Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan show US military intervention in the Middle East doesn't work.

Top Ten Ways Islamic Law Forbids Terrorism

Posted on: Apr 19, 2013, Source: JuanCole.com

Islam’s holy book forbids coercing people into adopting any religion. They have to willingly choose it.

Can the Boston Bombings Increase our Sympathy for Iraq and Syria, for All Such Victims?

Posted on: Apr 16, 2013, Source: Informed Comment

To fight our contemporary pathologies, the tragedy has to be turned to empathy and universal compassion rather than to anger and racial profiling.

Congress Obsessed with Peaceful American Muslims, Neglects Real Threat of White Supremacist Terrorists

Posted on: Apr 5, 2013, Source: Informed Comment

Congress not only has held few or no hearings on the danger of white terrorism, it has actually pressured the DHS not to produce studies on the phenomenon.

Top Ten Republican Myths on Benghazi that Justify Hillary Clinton’s Anger

Posted on: Jan 24, 2013, Source: Informed Comment

Here's why Clinton grew frustrated at Benghazi hearings yesterday.

Top 10 Myths About Israel's Attack on Gaza

Posted on: Nov 19, 2012, Source: Informed Comment

These misconceptions are spread by the American media.

Top 10 Coming Disasters in 2016 If America Picks Romney

Posted on: Nov 5, 2012, Source: Informed Comment

There's plenty of evidence about what kind of a "direction" Romney might take the country.

5 Disturbing Signs Romney Would Steer Us to Towards a Capitalist Dictatorship

Posted on: Nov 3, 2012, Source: Informed Comment

The lies and activities of Mitt's campaign show a contempt for democracy itself.

Israeli Government Consciously Planned to Keep Palestinians "on a Diet", Controlling Their Food Supply, Damning Document Reveals

Posted on: Oct 18, 2012, Source: Informed Comment

Israeli military forced to reveal that Israel calculated the amount of calories Palestinians would need to avoid malnutrition.

Top 10 Things Mitt Romney Gets Dead Wrong about U.S. Policy in the Middle East

Posted on: Oct 3, 2012, Source: Informed Comment

Mitt Romney completely misunderstands the history of the U.S. role in the region, which causes him to misunderstand its present dilemmas.

9 Big Myths We're Being Peddled to Scare Us About Iran

Posted on: Sep 18, 2012, Source: Informed Comment

The truth about Iran's nuclear designs is almost nowhere to be found in the corporate media.

Paul Ryan's Top 10 Falsehoods and Outrages... from Just His First Week on the Campaign Trail

Posted on: Aug 22, 2012, Source: Informed Comment

Ryan's early roll-out for campaign 2012 has been quite the disaster.

The Top Ten Differences Between White and Non-White Terrorists

Posted on: Aug 10, 2012, Source: Informed Comment

Not all terrorism is created equal.

Juan Cole: Iran Election Numbers Don't Add Up

Posted on: Jun 14, 2009, Source: Informed Comment

It looks like the election was stolen.

Iraqi Government Gridlocked: No Oil Law; No Election Law Likely

Posted on: Aug 5, 2008, Source: Informed Comment

Faux democracy, with little legitimacy and no sovereignty, doesn't work terribly smoothly.

Controversy Swirls Around Baghdad as Member of Parliament Calls for President's Ouster

Posted on: Jul 28, 2008, Source: Informed Comment

Is impeachment off the table over there too?

Iraq Update: Missed Deadlines; Sadrists in the Streets; "Security Agreement" Watered Down

Posted on: Jul 24, 2008, Source: Informed Comment

John McCain thinks that Iraq borders Pakistan while the troop agreement misses deadline and Mosul, Diyala, and Fallujah experience violence.

Will Petraeus' Imperial Delusions Prolong Iraq's Civil War?

Posted on: Apr 9, 2008, Source: Informed Comment

Let's look at what transpired in Lebanon.

US Iraq War Death Toll Reaches 4,000

Posted on: Mar 24, 2008, Source: Informed Comment

The Bush administration still has not told us why they died.

Top Ten Middle East Policy Challenges for the US in 2008

Posted on: Dec 31, 2007, Source: Informed Comment

The US must insist that the Israeli siege of Gaza must be lifted and more...

The Top Ten Myths About Iraq in 2007

Posted on: Dec 27, 2007, Source: Informed Comment

How many times have you heard the war won't matter in the 2008 election? Wrong!

190,000 Guns Go Missing in Iraq

Posted on: Aug 6, 2007, Source: AlterNet

Juan Cole: The Bush Administration is clueless as to where 190,000 machine guns and pistols went, and believe it or not, that may be one of their smaller problems in Iraq right now.