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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True

Juan Cole

A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

06/21/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

06/21/2025 By The Conversation

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Democratic Party
Massive Blue Wave Answered GOP Bigotry, but also Challenges Dem Establishment

Massive Blue Wave Answered GOP Bigotry, but also Challenges Dem Establishment

A new House majority will be nearly 1/2 women, 1/3 people of color, and include more Muslim Americans, Native Americans, and LGBTQ members

Tomdispatch

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Congressional Noose may Tighten around Saudi Crown Prince as Haspel Testifies

Congressional Noose may Tighten around Saudi Crown Prince as Haspel Testifies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration was so annoyed by the line of the Central Intelligence Agency that Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Earth’s Failing Climate Grade: 2x Extreme Weather Events, 100x Animal Extinctions

Earth’s Failing Climate Grade: 2x Extreme Weather Events, 100x Animal Extinctions

As COP24 Opens in Poland

Marlowe Hood

Donald Trump
A Rattled Trump Skates close to Obstruction: Praises Stone, Lashes out at Mueller, Cohen

A Rattled Trump Skates close to Obstruction: Praises Stone, Lashes out at Mueller, Cohen

Trump cited Stone’s pledge to never testify against him: “Nice to know that some people still have ‘guts!'”

AFP

Petroleum
Qatar, under Saudi Blockade, Quits a Declining OPEC

Qatar, under Saudi Blockade, Quits a Declining OPEC

Relations between Riyadh and Doha are at an all-time low

David Harding

astronomy and outer space
NASA Spacecraft rendezvous with Asteroid that could one Day Collide with Earth

NASA Spacecraft rendezvous with Asteroid that could one Day Collide with Earth

OSIRIS-REx may be able to aid in preventing asteroid strikes

The Conversation

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Israel turns unstable Abruptly, as Police urge PM Netanyahu be indicted

Israel turns unstable Abruptly, as Police urge PM Netanyahu be indicted

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli police over the weekend urged that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sarah, be indicted for corruption. The […]

Juan Cole

Books
Why Kahlil Gibran is one of the Best-Selling Poets of All Time

Why Kahlil Gibran is one of the Best-Selling Poets of All Time

By Antonia Pont | – (The Conversation) – Kahlil Gibran (original spelling at birth “Khalil”) is a strange phenomenon of 20th Century letters and publishing. […]

The Conversation

Yemen
Senate tumult reflects popular discontent with Yemen War

Senate tumult reflects popular discontent with Yemen War

(48Hills.com) – International relief organizations consider the conflict the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Now, it seems, the US is paying attention. I’m on a low-budget […]

Reese Erlich

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