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25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now:  Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths”
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25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now: Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths”

Juan Cole

The foreign ministers of 25 nations, including much of Europe along with Japan, Canada and Australia, have issued a Joint Statement demanding that the Israeli […]

Protesting Georgetown U’s Sanctioning of Prof. Jonathan Brown for Speaking out on Iran War

Protesting Georgetown U’s Sanctioning of Prof. Jonathan Brown for Speaking out on Iran War

07/22/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

How Electric Vehicles and Water Heaters are turning Cities into giant Batteries

How Electric Vehicles and Water Heaters are turning Cities into giant Batteries

07/22/2025 By The Conversation

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After Benedict:  Religions have to Democratize if they are to Survive

After Benedict: Religions have to Democratize if they are to Survive

The US television news coverage of Benedict XVI’s last day in office was extremely annoying because it mostly wasn’t good journalism. CNN kept talking about […]

Juan Cole

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New Light on the CIA Coup in Iran on its 60th Anniversary: Why “Argo” Needs a Prequel (Sternfeld)

New Light on the CIA Coup in Iran on its 60th Anniversary: Why “Argo” Needs a Prequel (Sternfeld)

Lior Sternfeld writes in a guest column for Informed Comment 2013 marks the sixtieth anniversary to the most atrocious intervention of the US in the […]

Juan Cole

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How the British Gov’t Stripped Alleged Militants of Citizenship before they were Droned to Death (Woods & Ross)

How the British Gov’t Stripped Alleged Militants of Citizenship before they were Droned to Death (Woods & Ross)

Chris Woods and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Harlem Shake as Protest in Tunis

Harlem Shake as Protest in Tunis

Hard line Salafi fundamentalists (who are small fringe in Tunis) showed up at a language school in Tunisia’s capital on Wednesday to attempt to stop […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Why Scalia is Wrong about Voting as “Racial Entitlement”: Texas’ Long History of Minority Vote Supression (Beckett & Lee)

Why Scalia is Wrong about Voting as “Racial Entitlement”: Texas’ Long History of Minority Vote Supression (Beckett & Lee)

Lois Beckett and Suevon Lee have updated their earlier article at ProPublica. Although published earlier, it inadvertently serves as a canny intervention in the debate […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Hagel Confirmed, but Bloodied by American Nationalists Seeking Wars & World Dominance

Hagel Confirmed, but Bloodied by American Nationalists Seeking Wars & World Dominance

The GOP senators have their own foreign policy, and it isn’t the same as that of President Obama or Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. For […]

Juan Cole

Energy
First, Shut down all the Coal Plants:  AEP forced to Shutter Engines of Climate Change, Mercury Poisoning (Chamberlain)

First, Shut down all the Coal Plants: AEP forced to Shutter Engines of Climate Change, Mercury Poisoning (Chamberlain)

Jacob Chamberlain writes at Common Dreams In a victory for advocates of clean air and water, energy giant American Electric Power will now be shutting […]

Juan Cole

Iran
“Argo” as Orientalism and why it Upsets Iranians

“Argo” as Orientalism and why it Upsets Iranians

The taking of US diplomatic personnel hostage by radical Iranian activists and angry crowds in November of 1979, and then the backing for this action […]

Juan Cole

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Redefining Torture and the Waterboarding of Americans (Turse)

Redefining Torture and the Waterboarding of Americans (Turse)

Nick Turse writes at Tomdispatch.com: Try to remain calm — even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race.  Try not […]

Juan Cole

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