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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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War on Whistleblowers (ft. Edward Snowden & David Carr)

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Brave New Films | – Brave New Films: War on Whistleblowers (ft. Edward Snowden & David Carr) War on Whistleblowers highlights recent cases where American […]

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Climate Change
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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Here are some of the green energy good news stories of the past few weeks: 1. China put […]

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Climate Change
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Surprise: Noted Climate Change Denialist Secretly Took Oil Co. Payouts

By Nadia Prupis | (Commondreams.org) A prominent climate change denier and researcher quietly took more than $1.2 million in payouts from the energy industry, including […]

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Domestic Surveillance
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‘I would have come forward sooner’ – Snowden on NSA leak regrets

RT | – Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has frequently said that he does not regret blowing the whistle on the agency’s mass […]

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Iran
Leak:  Netanyahu's 2012 Iran Bomb Warning refuted by Israeli Intel

Leak: Netanyahu’s 2012 Iran Bomb Warning refuted by Israeli Intel

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) – “Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making […]

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Egypt
In Egypt, the Law itself is an Enemy of Women’s Rights

In Egypt, the Law itself is an Enemy of Women’s Rights

By Rana Allam | – CAIRO, Feb 23 2015 (IPS) – In November 2013, a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey ranked Egypt as the worst of […]

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Health
Israel denies Gaza govt floodwater allegations

Israel denies Gaza govt floodwater allegations

NB AFP has withdrawn the original story. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel on Monday rejected allegations by the government in the Gaza Strip that authorities had […]

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African-Americans
In New Gilded Age, Social Protest dominates Academy Awards Ceremony

In New Gilded Age, Social Protest dominates Academy Awards Ceremony

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – If social and economic inequality were a mine, and if America were deep in this mine with a […]

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Culture
Snowden Reacts as Documentary about his Leaks wins Oscar

Snowden Reacts as Documentary about his Leaks wins Oscar

By Rainey Reitman | (EFF) – CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras’ riveting documentary about Edward Snowden’s efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United […]

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