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Juan Cole

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Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn't Work (Young Turks)

Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn’t Work (Young Turks)

Juan Cole

Cenk Uygur explains Romney’s apparent debate strategy, and explain why the media’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand approach obscures how outrageous the strategy is. Cenk has some fun with CNN’s, let us say generous, treatment of Romney’s misrepresentations. For more on the Gish Gallop click here.

Energy
Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Juan Cole

Desertec and Morocco’s future as a solar and wind energy powerhouse. Or, how veiled young Moroccan Muslim women engineers are more clear-eyed about the future than Mitt Romney. “We are too dependent on petroleum imports . . .” Desertec films explains: Morocco has plans to generate 2 gigawatts of power from solar by 2020.

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (472) “Wine, you are my insane sweetheart”

Omar Khayyam (472) “Wine, you are my insane sweetheart”

Juan Cole

       Wine, you are                       my insane                                  sweetheart;             I hit the bottle and         have no fear of disgrace. Drink […]

Iran
Israel Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack to start war with Iran

Israel Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack to start war with Iran

Juan Cole

Israel lobby flack Patrick Clawson strategizes how to trick the United States into going to war against Iran on behalf of Israel. The ‘Washington Institute for Near East Policy’ is itself one big false flag operation that uses ‘policy analysis’ to push far rightwing Israeli plans for perpetual war and Occupation in key US government […]

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On How Despite the Currency Crisis Iran’s State Revenues are not Collapsing

On How Despite the Currency Crisis Iran’s State Revenues are not Collapsing

Juan Cole

The steep decline of the Iranian rial against the dollar has produced a lot of extravagant claims about the collapse of the Iranian economy. While there is no doubt that Iran is seeing a form of hyper-inflation that is devastating to the people there, the government is in no danger of not having money. Because […]

Energy
Extreme Oil: Costly, Dirty and Dangerous (Klare)

Extreme Oil: Costly, Dirty and Dangerous (Klare)

Juan Cole

Michael T. Klare writes at Tomdispatch.com: The New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities By Michael T. Klare Last winter, fossil-fuel enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs, and free this country […]

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (284) “God is merciful: Here, have some wine”

Omar Khayyam (284) “God is merciful: Here, have some wine”

Juan Cole

I staggered, drunk, outside a bar last night and saw a tipsy older man emerge,  a bottle slung across his shoulder; and I said to him, “At your age, aren’t you  ashamed before the Lord Almighty?” He  laughed, “God is merciful: Here, have some wine!” Translated by Juan Cole from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 284

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Lyon:  CNN censored Ahmadinejad, engaged in War Propaganda

Lyon: CNN censored Ahmadinejad, engaged in War Propaganda

Juan Cole

Amber Lyon, Emmy-award-winning journalist who has worked for CNN, alleges to RT that the network left out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls for peace and an alternative world order when it covered his UN speech. She goes on to allege that CNN deep-sixed her documentary on Bahrain, possibly because CNN packages PR programming *for* the […]

Iran
Iran Bazaar Strikes signal Misery, not Sanctions 'Victory'

Iran Bazaar Strikes signal Misery, not Sanctions ‘Victory’

Juan Cole

On Wednesday, the Tehran covered bazaar was closed, and the traditional market in some other cities such as Mashhad also went on strike, with demonstrators protesting the collapse of the Iranian currency, the rial. Until last November, the rial was about 10,000 to the dollar. Then it fell to 12,000. Last summer it hit 16,000. […]

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