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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

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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

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Pegasus: The Zero-Click Threat to Democracy and Human Rights from Israel

Pegasus: The Zero-Click Threat to Democracy and Human Rights from Israel

Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– Pegasus, the main cyber-surveillance weapon developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, had been at the center […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Lebanon: Israel's White Phosphorus Use risks Civilian Harm

Lebanon: Israel’s White Phosphorus Use risks Civilian Harm

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Israel’s widespread use of white phosphorus in south Lebanon is putting civilians at grave risk and contributing to civilian displacement, Human […]

Human Rights Watch

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Not just Bombs: Israeli-caused Hunger is killing Palestinian Children in Gaza

Not just Bombs: Israeli-caused Hunger is killing Palestinian Children in Gaza

By Wafa Aludaini | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Two Palestinian children died last week of starvation, dehydration and lack of medicine amid […]

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How Trump and Netanyahu are Tag-Teaming Biden on Gaza

How Trump and Netanyahu are Tag-Teaming Biden on Gaza

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – President Joe Biden has proposed a new peace plan for Gaza, which is provisionally accepted by Hamas. […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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The Enemy is Us: (And I’m not just thinking about Donald Trump)

The Enemy is Us: (And I’m not just thinking about Donald Trump)

( Tomdispatch.com) – Honestly, doesn’t it befuddle you? I mean, don’t you think we humans are kinda mad? And worse yet, at some deep level, […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Iran: President's death has set Hardliners Jostling for to Replace aging Supreme Leader

Iran: President’s death has set Hardliners Jostling for to Replace aging Supreme Leader

By Afshin Shahi, Keele University | – (The Conversation) – The death of Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash in May plunged Iran […]

The Conversation

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Why do Palestinians always "Die" in the Passive Mood, but Israelis are never named as the Killers?

Why do Palestinians always “Die” in the Passive Mood, but Israelis are never named as the Killers?

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Since the creation of Israel on Palestinian land in 1948 and even before then, Israel used language as […]

Mohammed Samaana

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Protesting San José State University’s Suspension of Professor Sang Hea Kil, Advisor of Students for Justice in Palestine

Protesting San José State University’s Suspension of Professor Sang Hea Kil, Advisor of Students for Justice in Palestine

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Cynthia Teniente-Matson President,  San José State University sjsupres@sjsu.edu . . . Dear President Teniente-Matson […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Why Are Any of Us Paying for the Scam That is Medicare Advantage?

Why Are Any of Us Paying for the Scam That is Medicare Advantage?

By Thom Hartmann | – ( Commondreams.org) – They’re competing unfairly with Medicare, and you and I are paying for it. It’s obscene. When former […]

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