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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East
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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After thirty years of agitation, incitement, lies and provocation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally succeeded in […]

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

06/24/2025 By The Conversation

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

06/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Rhetorical Terror:  GOP Candidates Pledge War Crimes, Carpet-Bombing, Asian Land Wars

Rhetorical Terror: GOP Candidates Pledge War Crimes, Carpet-Bombing, Asian Land Wars

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – At the Trumpless GOP debate Thursday evening, the candidates once again promised to bankrupt us with […]

Juan Cole

Pollution
While Flint Was Being Poisoned, Gov.'s office sent State Workers Water Coolers

While Flint Was Being Poisoned, Gov.’s office sent State Workers Water Coolers

By Common Dreams staff | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Following release of new document and emails, Gov. Snyder told he must ‘explain to the […]

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Saudi Arabia
Will Yemen be the Graveyard of the new Saudi Empire?

Will Yemen be the Graveyard of the new Saudi Empire?

By Helen Lackner | ( OpenDemocracy) | – – Those deciding for war in March 2015 gave little thought to Yemeni realities, military, logistic, topographic, […]

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Iran Unleashed:  Rouhani's Triumphant European Tour

Iran Unleashed: Rouhani’s Triumphant European Tour

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Virtually as soon as the Iran nuclear deal was finally approved by the UN Security Council, Iranian […]

Juan Cole

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Will Trump destroy the Republican Party, or Push it to Far Right?

Will Trump destroy the Republican Party, or Push it to Far Right?

By Liam Kennedy | (The Conversation) | – – When Richard Hofstadter described “a paranoid style in American politics” in 1964, he was referring to […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Daesh/ ISIL making Play for Moderate Muslims, as GOP Candidates deny they Exist

Daesh/ ISIL making Play for Moderate Muslims, as GOP Candidates deny they Exist

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – While ISIS makes war on the world’s vast majority of “moderate Muslims,” hardliners […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us

Gaza speaks: This is what the decade-long Israeli siege has done to us

By Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Whenever Mariam Aljamal’s children hear the sound of thunder at night, they wet their beds. […]

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Bundy White Terrorists detained, one Killed in suicidal Shoot-out

Bundy White Terrorists detained, one Killed in suicidal Shoot-out

Contessa Brewer | (CBSN Video News Report) | – – “Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed militia that occupied a national wildlife refuge in […]

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Why Israel's Netanyahu has no standing to accuse UN Sec. Ban of inciting Terrorism

Why Israel’s Netanyahu has no standing to accuse UN Sec. Ban of inciting Terrorism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke out this week in an address to the UN Security Council […]

Juan Cole

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