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Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?
Bahrain

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers – Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities

You Deserve Better, Iran

You Deserve Better, Iran

03/03/2026 By contributors

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

03/03/2026 By Norman Solomon

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Iran
Iranian President Rouhani acknowledges Holocaust as Crime against Jewish People

Iranian President Rouhani acknowledges Holocaust as Crime against Jewish People

The speech of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the UNGA pledged that Iran has no nuclear weapons program and said that Iran never would. The […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil at UN delivers Stinging Rebuke to Obama on NSA Spying (Lazare)

President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil at UN delivers Stinging Rebuke to Obama on NSA Spying (Lazare)

Reuters reports on President Roussef’s speech condemning US spying on her country and on her personally: Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams: In a furious critique […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Is Iran Ready to do a Deal with Obama over its Nuclear Program?

Is Iran Ready to do a Deal with Obama over its Nuclear Program?

The United States, France, Germany, the UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE form a bloc that are convinced that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Is Hamas Finished?  Facing a Youth Rebellion and Egyptian, Iranian Hostility

Is Hamas Finished? Facing a Youth Rebellion and Egyptian, Iranian Hostility

The party-militia Hamas, a distant offshoot in Palestinian Gaza of the Muslim Brotherhood, has seldom been on the sunny side of the street. But a […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Orwell's 'Big Brother' Was less Intrusive than our own Feds & We OK'd That (Calabrese and Harwood)

Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ Was less Intrusive than our own Feds & We OK’d That (Calabrese and Harwood)

Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood write at Tomdispatch.com For at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database filled with […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Alshabab attack on Nairobi a Sign of Political Defeat

Alshabab attack on Nairobi a Sign of Political Defeat

The horrible attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi by members of the Alshabab terrorist group from neighboring Somalia is the act of a declining […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today

Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today

Wind energy at the moment is by the apparent numbers less expensive than solar, and huge wind farms are being opened throughout the world. There […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Americans Drawing the Line on Day of Action against Keystone XL (Lazare)

Americans Drawing the Line on Day of Action against Keystone XL (Lazare)

Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams.org: In towns and cities across the U.S., demonstrators are 'drawing the line' Saturday demanding that President Obama protect people and […]

Juan Cole

European Union
Israeli Troops attack European Diplomats on Aid Mission

Israeli Troops attack European Diplomats on Aid Mission

First the Israelis again erased a Palestinian population, ruling that the 120 Bedouin inhabitants of Khirbet Makhul in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank did not […]

Juan Cole

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