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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

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Colonialism
The lost fortunes of Palestine’s dynamic Ottoman-era merchants

The lost fortunes of Palestine’s dynamic Ottoman-era merchants

By Charlie Hoyle | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – The pink stone mansions hidden among the modern urban geography of Bethlehem —surrounded by an […]

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African-Americans
What if Kim Davis Refused to License Marriages of Inter-Racial Couples?

What if Kim Davis Refused to License Marriages of Inter-Racial Couples?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis was released from prison on Tuesday after having been jailed for […]

Juan Cole

Books
How Persian Literature shaped the culture of Iran and India

How Persian Literature shaped the culture of Iran and India

Sunil Sharma interviewed by Maryam Kamali | ( Iranian Medieval History) Sunil Sharma is the Associate Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature at Boston University’s […]

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Militarization
How the Sept. 11 Attacks Changed American Lives Forever

How the Sept. 11 Attacks Changed American Lives Forever

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.org) | – – Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we […]

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Foreign Policy
Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq

Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq

By William Beeman | (Informed Comment) | – – There are so many lies in Dick Cheney’s address to the AEI that one hardly knows […]

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Authoritarianism
The 3000: Why have some Tunisians joined ISIL/Daesh in Syria?

The 3000: Why have some Tunisians joined ISIL/Daesh in Syria?

by Youssef Cherif | (Middle East Center Blog, LSE Political Science) | – – Tunisia, regarded as the Arab ‘beacon of hope’ and the cliché […]

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Apartheid
Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine

Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has produced a report [pdf] in […]

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astronomy and outer space
Multiple views of Meteor Explosion over Bangkok

Multiple views of Meteor Explosion over Bangkok

Attila Nagy | (Video compilation) | – – “Several dashcams captured meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding over Bangkok, on the 7th of September, 2015.” […]

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Displaced and Refugees
As Germans welcome 1000s of Refugees, EU, Turkey Wrangle over Crisis

As Germans welcome 1000s of Refugees, EU, Turkey Wrangle over Crisis

Euractiv.com | – – Thousands of exhausted refugees and asylum seekers received a hero’s welcome Sunday (6 September) as they streamed into Western Europe. But […]

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