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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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Ryan steps down, with Lifetime dream of transferring Trillions from People to Super-Rich Fulfilled

Ryan steps down, with Lifetime dream of transferring Trillions from People to Super-Rich Fulfilled

By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Having successfully rammed through tax legislation that massively rewards America’s billionaires—including his long-time […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Trump, World Leaders outraged by Syria's Douma but ignore Children of Gaza & Yemen

Trump, World Leaders outraged by Syria’s Douma but ignore Children of Gaza & Yemen

By Amelia Smith @amyinthedesert | (Middle East Monitor) | – – In the aftermath of the chemical weapons assault that suffocated to death over 80 […]

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Climate Change
Our burning of Fossil Fuels slowing down Atlantic Currents and Spelling TROUBLE

Our burning of Fossil Fuels slowing down Atlantic Currents and Spelling TROUBLE

TeleSur | – – The findings imply that models used to project global warming scenarios had likely underestimated the contribution of a weakening AMOC, said […]

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Democratic Party
Protests won't stop Trump derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will

Protests won’t stop Trump derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The broad hints Trump gave Monday that the search of his personal attorney’s offices on a […]

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Militarization
America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport

America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The purpose of all wars, is peace. So observed St. Augustine early in the first […]

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Iran
Iraq’s al-Sadr offers to mediate between Riyadh, Tehran

Iraq’s al-Sadr offers to mediate between Riyadh, Tehran

Middle East Monitor | – – Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric and opposition leader Muqtada al-Sadr has declared his willingness to mediate between Saudi Arabia and […]

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Israel/ Palestine
‘Son of a Whore’: Video Shows Israeli Troops Cheering After Shooting Unarmed Palestinian

‘Son of a Whore’: Video Shows Israeli Troops Cheering After Shooting Unarmed Palestinian

TeleSur | – – While the world condemns Israel’s use of lethal force, Israeli politicians and policy makers defend soldiers’ cheering of shooting unarmed Palestinians. […]

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Syria
Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus

Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus

By Karen Pinto | (The Conversation) | – – Dozens of people, including children, were killed this past weekend by an alleged chemical weapons attack […]

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Corruption
Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?

Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times reports that FBI agents produced a warrant at the […]

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