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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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Displaced and Refugees
Top 10 Reasons Governors are Wrong to Exclude Syrian Refugees

Top 10 Reasons Governors are Wrong to Exclude Syrian Refugees

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Some half of US governors have announced their opposition to their states taking in Syrian refugees […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Whether Jewish Refugees in '30s or Syrians today, USA Falls Short of own Ideals

Whether Jewish Refugees in ’30s or Syrians today, USA Falls Short of own Ideals

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reprint ed., slightly revised. More than half of US governors have abruptly announced that they will […]

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Authoritarianism
After Paris, Rights Groups warn against Police State Tactics

After Paris, Rights Groups warn against Police State Tactics

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘Whilst closed oppressive societies breed hatred and barbarism, open reflective states built on rights, freedoms […]

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Islam-hatred
Trump: We Should Strongly Consider Closing Mosques

Trump: We Should Strongly Consider Closing Mosques

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “Who’s going to step in after Paris to demagogue? Donald Trump of course. He would […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Exxon investigation: A warning shot for fossil fuel companies as climate lies unveiled

Exxon investigation: A warning shot for fossil fuel companies as climate lies unveiled

The Tree | – – In the first concrete legal action against ExxonMobil’s web of climate lies, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced […]

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Islam
How Islamic law can take on ISIL

How Islamic law can take on ISIL

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im | (The Conversation) | – – The media coverage of the terrorist atrocities of Friday November 13 in Paris would seem […]

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Is Daesh/ ISIL a modern Raiding Pirate state?

Is Daesh/ ISIL a modern Raiding Pirate state?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Some analysts trying to understand Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) had suggested that it differs from al-Qaeda in […]

Juan Cole

Republican Party
Can we Take another Year of GOP Candidates’ ‘Bright Ideas’?

Can we Take another Year of GOP Candidates’ ‘Bright Ideas’?

By Martha Burk | (Otherwords.org) | – – Can we really take another year of nasty rhetoric and nonsense proposals? We’re officially just under a […]

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National Security State
No, Sending thousands of US Ground Troops won't Fix the ISIL Problem

No, Sending thousands of US Ground Troops won’t Fix the ISIL Problem

by DAVID SCHANZER for ISLAMiCommentary David Schanzer Last night’s attacks will increase calls for more vigorous military action than the coalition has mustered to date. […]

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