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Iraq’s Climate Crisis

Juan Cole TomDispatch
You don’t want to be in the Iraq that this country invaded in what was, in essence, a giant oil grab and helped turn into a land of overheated rubble, dust, sand, drought, and increasingly over-the-top temperatures.

Hollow Men: All the Cowards of Jan. 6

Juan Cole Informed Comment
Much of the Republican Party has been reduced to quivering protoplasm, whimpering under the lash of Trump’s whiny invective.

Can Ms. Marvel Change the Image of Islam in America?

Juan Cole Informed Comment
In the first episode of this tv series, the 16-year-old Pakistani-American superhero despairs of being allowed to go to a comic book convention, saying, “Anyway, it is not as if the brown girls are the ones who save the world.” Obviously, the point of this series is to disprove this defeatist point of view.