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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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Kurds of Afrin looted by Turkey-backed Arab Militias, as Syria blocks Kurdish Exodus

Kurds of Afrin looted by Turkey-backed Arab Militias, as Syria blocks Kurdish Exodus

Human Rights Watch | – – Turkish-Allied Groups Loot, Destroy People’s Property (Beirut) – Syrian government forces are blocking some civilians fleeing the Turkish-led military […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers assassinate one Palestinian Journalist, Wound 3 others

Israeli Snipers assassinate one Palestinian Journalist, Wound 3 others

TeleSur | – – The Great March of Return began on March 30th and will continue until May 15. A Palestinian journalist covering the Great […]

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Donald Trump
Psychopathocracy Matures: Trump asks why CIA did not Massacre family of Militant with Drone

Psychopathocracy Matures: Trump asks why CIA did not Massacre family of Militant with Drone

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Greg Jaffe at the Washington Post reports that Trump has reversed an Obama-era push to get […]

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Green Energy
Solar is taking over the World and China is taking over Solar

Solar is taking over the World and China is taking over Solar

By Frédéric Simon | EURACTIV.com | – – Solar power dominated a global ranking of new renewable energy investments “like never before” last year, with […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Peaceful Protest: More Palestinians Killed, Injured on Day of the Burning Tires

Peaceful Protest: More Palestinians Killed, Injured on Day of the Burning Tires

Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A second Palestinian protester was shot and killed by Israeli forces along the Gaza border, […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli occupation denying Palestinians ‘right to development’ says new UN study

Israeli occupation denying Palestinians ‘right to development’ says new UN study

Middle East Monitor | – – Decades of Israeli occupation and appropriation of land and resources has denied the Palestinian people the right to development, […]

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Three Countries show how Near a 100% Green Grid is

Three Countries show how Near a 100% Green Grid is

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The aspiration for a 100% green electricity grid is no longer a dream. It is regularly […]

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Drone Warfare
Trump's Increasingly Secret Air and Drone Wars

Trump’s Increasingly Secret Air and Drone Wars

By Jessica Purkiss and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( Bureau of Investigative Journalism) | – – Civil rights group calls the transparency clampdown “deeply disturbing” Share […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli peace group urges soldiers to refuse orders to shoot Gaza protesters

Israeli peace group urges soldiers to refuse orders to shoot Gaza protesters

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem launched a campaign entitled “Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot,” on Thursday urging Israeli soldiers to refuse orders […]

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