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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

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Donald Rumsfeld Blames Bush For Iraq Democracy Fail

Donald Rumsfeld Blames Bush For Iraq Democracy Fail

Mark Sovel & Elliot Hill | (The Lip TV – Video) | – – “Donald Rumsfeld said George W. Bush was wrong about Iraq in […]

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Jon Stewart on Iran, Israel and Directing Rosewater: “It Turns out the Middle East is Somewhat of a Hotbed”

By Alexander Bisley | (Lumiere Reader) | – – N.B. Rosewater is now streaming at Amazon Instant Video and will be available on Netflix beginning […]

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Egypt: Year of Abuses Under al-Sisi -- President Gets Western Support While Erasing Human Rights Gains

Egypt: Year of Abuses Under al-Sisi — President Gets Western Support While Erasing Human Rights Gains

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has presided over the flagrant abuse of human rights since taking […]

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Implications for ICC?  SCOTUS Jerusalem Decision shows Limits of Israel Lobbies

Implications for ICC? SCOTUS Jerusalem Decision shows Limits of Israel Lobbies

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It has been the position of the US presidents for decades that the status of Jerusalem […]

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Obama: We don't have a "complete strategy" against ISIL

Obama: We don’t have a “complete strategy” against ISIL

CBS News | (Video Report) | – – “President Obama said Monday the United States does not have a complete plan to train and equip […]

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Israeli Military Blockade makes Fishing, Farming in Gaza Deadly for Palestinians

Israeli Military Blockade makes Fishing, Farming in Gaza Deadly for Palestinians

By Mel Frykberg | – – RAMALLAH, West Bank (IPS) – Three Palestinian fishermen were injured last week after Israeli naval forces opened fire on […]

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By the Time Washington wakes up to China's Eurasian Strategy will it be too Late?

By the Time Washington wakes up to China’s Eurasian Strategy will it be too Late?

By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – For even the greatest of empires, geography is often destiny. You wouldn’t know it in Washington, […]

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Did Jeb Bush's brother "Create ISIL" in Iraq?

Did Jeb Bush’s brother “Create ISIL” in Iraq?

by Brian Glyn Williams It was one of those moments that politicians dread. An unscripted incident last month when a voice in a crowd pinned […]

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Turkey:  How Pres. Erdogan damaged the AKP Brand

Turkey: How Pres. Erdogan damaged the AKP Brand

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Justice and Development Party (AKP) decisively lost its majority on Sunday, falling to only about […]

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