Playing Russian Roulette with Middle Eastern Oil
April 17, 2024 | Despite hellish heat waves and epic floods, the Middle East gets failing grades on climate action.
Articles by Juan Cole
How Washington’s Anti-Iranian Campaign Failed, Big Time
March 4, 2024 | How the Gaza conflict made democracy's name mud for millions.
Greenwashing the Planet
December 21, 2023 | With the world the hottest in 125,000 years, we're being gaslighted by Big Oil.
How Israel Occupied Itself
August 10, 2023 | Israel's crisis is not about democracy but occupation.
China Hangs Washington Out to Dry in the Middle East
May 17, 2023 | America's divide-and-rule strategy in the Middle East has backfired.
Tucker Carlson’s ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Comes from an Anti-American Nazi
May 18, 2022 | Why has the American far right adopted an anti-American conspiracy theory as its rallying cry?
Islam Wasn’t the Threat — Islamophobia Was
February 3, 2022 | While peaceful American Muslims were hounded and harassed after 9/11, far more dangerous right-wing extremists got a pass.
Don’t Count Out the Arab Youth
June 30, 2014 | Three ways rebellious young people are still reshaping the Middle East.