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The Unexpected Winner of the Iran War? Green Energy in Asia and Europe
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The Unexpected Winner of the Iran War? Green Energy in Asia and Europe

Neil Thompson

China’s decision to invest in a transition to a green economy has also helped buffer it from the Iran War Fall-Out

Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus (HRW)

Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus (HRW)

03/10/2026 By Human Rights Watch

Anti-Iran Policy as a Sacred Mission of Israeli Propagandists

Anti-Iran Policy as a Sacred Mission of Israeli Propagandists

03/10/2026 By Farhang Jahanpour

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Afghanistan
Militant Secularism in the Middle East?

Militant Secularism in the Middle East?

The youth organizations that made the 2011 revolutions were predominantly leftist or liberal. They revolted against seedy police states run by family cartels and their […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Top Ten Things Ted Cruz did to the NSA and other Security Agencies that Edward Snowden Couldn’t

Top Ten Things Ted Cruz did to the NSA and other Security Agencies that Edward Snowden Couldn’t

Edward Snowden’s revelations about the excesses of the National Security Agency have so far had no effect whatsoever on actual practices. But Ted Cruz’s conspiracy […]

Juan Cole

Israel
On how American Jews are Mostly the Opposite of Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu

On how American Jews are Mostly the Opposite of Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu

A huge Pew Charitable Truest telephone poll of American Jews confirms many of the things learned by previous religious polls conducted by Barry Kosmin and […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Would Israel's Netanyahu really Drag US into war with Iran?

Would Israel’s Netanyahu really Drag US into war with Iran?

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged at the United Nations on Tuesday to attack Iran himself if Washington won’t do it, and in order to […]

Juan Cole

Gulf
The Other Lobby: Newspapers of Gulf Oil Monarchies Condemn US-Iran Rapprochement

The Other Lobby: Newspapers of Gulf Oil Monarchies Condemn US-Iran Rapprochement

The USG Open Source Center paraphrases Arabic news items in the newspapers of the Sunni Arab monarchies of the Gulf, many of which express concern […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Ted Cruz and America’s Super-Rich say “Let them eat Cake”

Ted Cruz and America’s Super-Rich say “Let them eat Cake”

The anecdote goes that Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, inquired as to why the crowds were in the street demonstrating in 1789. She was […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Israeli Nuclear & other Arms compared to Iran’s

Israeli Nuclear & other Arms compared to Iran’s

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to the US on Monday to lobby Washington against a diplomatic resolution of the conflict over Iran’s civilian nuclear […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
US all Right with Arming Syrians, Bombing Syrians:  But no Syrian Refugees need Apply (Meyer)

US all Right with Arming Syrians, Bombing Syrians: But no Syrian Refugees need Apply (Meyer)

Theodoric Meyer writes at ProPublica Authorized by Congress, the CIA has started sending weapons to Syrian rebels. But under a legal definition of terrorism adopted by […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Ghoul’s Glossary:  Shutdown

Ghoul’s Glossary: Shutdown

Shutdown: n. A maneuver whereby persons elected and paid by the public to do little but pass budgets refuse to do so unless they are […]

Juan Cole

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