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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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The Real Zombie Apocalypse:  Climate Change

The Real Zombie Apocalypse: Climate Change

Bill McKibben | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, […]

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African-Americans
Palin for Trump:  'Political Correctness' (anti-racism) is a Suicide Bomb Vest

Palin for Trump: ‘Political Correctness’ (anti-racism) is a Suicide Bomb Vest

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The term “political correctness” has a long and varying history, but what do Donald Trump and […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Human Rights Watch:  Businesses must cut off Israeli squatter settlements

Human Rights Watch: Businesses must cut off Israeli squatter settlements

Human Rights Watch | – – (Jerusalem) – Businesses should stop operating in, financing, servicing, or trading with Israeli settlements in order to comply with […]

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Campaign Finance
GOP Billionaires Complain Super-Pacs aren’t Buying Election Effectively

GOP Billionaires Complain Super-Pacs aren’t Buying Election Effectively

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Republican billionaires are used to being able to buy elections, and are now crying […]

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journalism
The Failure of Aljazeera America proves that the future of TV is the Web

The Failure of Aljazeera America proves that the future of TV is the Web

By Scott Bridges | (The Conversation) | – – Yesterday came the surprising announcement that Al Jazeera America (AJAM), the not even three-year-old US news […]

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Israeli PM Netanyahu Still trying to derail Iran Nuclear Deal

Israeli PM Netanyahu Still trying to derail Iran Nuclear Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Monitoring reports that over the weekend, even as the great Powers were certifying that Iran […]

Juan Cole

Foreign Policy
A radical solution to Daesh/ ISIL:  Stop Intervening in the Middle East

A radical solution to Daesh/ ISIL: Stop Intervening in the Middle East

Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – How can we stop the [so-called] Islamic State [group]? Imagine yourself shaken awake, rushed off to a […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters scrawl hate graffiti on Jerusalem Church

Israeli Squatters scrawl hate graffiti on Jerusalem Church

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Suspected Israeli extremist wrote threatening hate speech on the doors of an ancient church in the […]

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Iran
Jubilation in Iran on "Implementation Day" ending Sanctions

Jubilation in Iran on “Implementation Day” ending Sanctions

By Mahsa Alimardani | ( Globalvoices.org) | – – Share this:         The Sunday January 17 cover for Iranian reformist newspaper Ghanoon states: […]

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