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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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Post-Revolution Yemen between Dialogue and Violence

Post-Revolution Yemen between Dialogue and Violence

(by Tobias Thiel) A Map of Yemen’s Six Federal Regions, copyright: Yemen Times After ten months of deliberations, Yemen’s 565-member National Dialogue Conference (NDC) closed […]

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Climate Change
 Climate Change: Who’s Campaigning Against Our Environment?

Climate Change: Who’s Campaigning Against Our Environment?

(By Todd Smekens) Climate Change: Who’s Campaigning Against Our Environment? (via www.muncievoice.com) MUNCIE, Indiana – The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued […]

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Constitution
America's Post-9/11 Dystopia: No-Fly Lists, Secret Gov't Databases and Guilty even if Proven Innocent

America’s Post-9/11 Dystopia: No-Fly Lists, Secret Gov’t Databases and Guilty even if Proven Innocent

(By Peter van Buren) Rahinah Ibrahim is a slight Malaysian woman who attended Stanford University on a U.S. student visa, majoring in architecture. She was […]

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Top Ten Ways in which it was Actually the Israeli Gov't that Derailed the Peace Talks

Top Ten Ways in which it was Actually the Israeli Gov’t that Derailed the Peace Talks

(By Juan Cole) Right wing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday blamed the Palestinians for the collapse of peace negotiations that began last August […]

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“Who is Hilal al-Assad?” By Mohammad D.

“Who is Hilal al-Assad?” By Mohammad D.

Hilal al-Assad Who is Hilal al-Assad?  By Mohammad D. For Syria Comment, April 5 2014 By the time Hilal al-Assad reached Zahi Azraq Military Hospital […]

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Domestic Surveillance
The Limitations of Washington's Proposed NSA Surveillance Reforms

The Limitations of Washington’s Proposed NSA Surveillance Reforms

(By Kara Brandeisky for ProPublica) Ten months after Edward Snowden’s first disclosures, three main legislative proposals have emerged for surveillance reform: one from President Obama, […]

Juan Cole

CIA
State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry

State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry

While the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to declassify its $40 million, 6,300 page report detailing the CIA’s torture regime — including the facts that it went beyond what was authorized, produced no useful intelligence and then the CIA lied about…

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Human Rights
US: Stop Blocking Palestinian Rights! (HRW)

US: Stop Blocking Palestinian Rights! (HRW)

(By Human Rights Watch) (Jerusalem) – The US government should support rather than oppose Palestinian actions to join international treaties that promote respect for human rights. […]

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Climate Change
World Bank Head:  Climate Change and Growing Inequality threaten Global Upheaval

World Bank Head: Climate Change and Growing Inequality threaten Global Upheaval

(By Jon Queally) President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, is warning that the combined crises of planetary climate change and rising global inequality […]

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