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Are Cyberattacks and Iran’s Port Explosion the First Salvo in Disrupting U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks?
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Are Cyberattacks and Iran’s Port Explosion the First Salvo in Disrupting U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks?

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Iran, Israel, the US, Russia, and China are interconnected by rumors of cyberattacks and sabotage By Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Marashi | – Braga, Portugal […]

Iran, US Conclude ‘Difficult But Useful’ Round Of Nuclear Talks In Oman

Iran, US Conclude ‘Difficult But Useful’ Round Of Nuclear Talks In Oman

05/12/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Donald Trump’s Feverish Lust for Green Energy Resources isn’t about the Climate

Donald Trump’s Feverish Lust for Green Energy Resources isn’t about the Climate

05/12/2025 By Joshua Frank

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In Iraqi Classrooms, Sunni Muslim Extremists Ban Evolution, Patriotism And Literature

In Iraqi Classrooms, Sunni Muslim Extremists Ban Evolution, Patriotism And Literature

By Ahmad Mohammed | Kirkuk | via Niqash.org In areas under the control of Sunni Muslim extremists, teachers have been issued a special set of […]

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Climate Change
As the Globe Warms, So Does the Climate Movement

As the Globe Warms, So Does the Climate Movement

By Todd Gitlin via Tomdispatch.com Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn’t too early to say it: the People’s Climate March changed […]

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7 Surprising Reasons Turkey is entering war on ISIL

7 Surprising Reasons Turkey is entering war on ISIL

By Juan Cole The Turkish parliament voted by a large margin Thursday to allow Turkish troops to make incursions into neighboring countries if necessary to […]

Juan Cole

Colonialism
Lessons from French Morocco:  “Fanaticism Anxiety” about Muslims has been with us since the Colonial Era

Lessons from French Morocco: “Fanaticism Anxiety” about Muslims has been with us since the Colonial Era

By Edmund Burke III Today we hear a great deal about the question of what went wrong in Middle Eastern societies. For an historian of […]

Juan Cole

American Jews
Statement by Professors of Jewish Studies in North America Regarding the AMCHA Initiative

Statement by Professors of Jewish Studies in North America Regarding the AMCHA Initiative

Received by email attachment) Statement by Professors of Jewish Studies in North America Regarding the AMCHA Initiative We the undersigned are professors of Jewish studies […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Denying ISIL Legitimacy and the problem of Radical Returnees

Denying ISIL Legitimacy and the problem of Radical Returnees

By Akil N. Awan via The National Interest Last week, President Barack Obama chaired a special meeting of the UN Security Council in which member […]

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Palestine goes to UN Security Council to Demand Israeli Withdrawal by 2016

Palestine goes to UN Security Council to Demand Israeli Withdrawal by 2016

By Juan Cole AP reports that Palestine is presenting a resolution to the United Nations Security Council (through its “Arab Group”) calling for a complete […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Netanyahu's Nuclear Hypocrisy on Iran; In fact, Everyone in the ME needs to Disarm

Netanyahu’s Nuclear Hypocrisy on Iran; In fact, Everyone in the ME needs to Disarm

By Farhad Malekafzali With negotiations to limit Iran’s enrichment in return for easing of economic sanctions on the verge of failure, hopes for a step-by-step […]

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Central Intelligence Agency
Failure Is Success:  How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century

Failure Is Success: How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century

By Tom Engelhardt [Note for TomDispatch Readers: My new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World (with […]

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