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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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Immigration and the Future of America (Chart)

Immigration and the Future of America (Chart)

Immigration to the US is if anything accelerating. The 1924-1965 immigration law had been racist and set strict quotas for everyone but northern Europeans. Since […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Morsi invokes Emergency Law in 3 Cities, is Slammed by Opposition

Egypt: Morsi invokes Emergency Law in 3 Cities, is Slammed by Opposition

Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi on Sunday put three Suez Canal cities under emergency law on Sunday for a month. Port Said, Suez, and Ismailiya had […]

Juan Cole

Israel
How Pundits got the Israeli Elections Wrong & Ignored the Influence of Women (Goldman)

How Pundits got the Israeli Elections Wrong & Ignored the Influence of Women (Goldman)

Shalom Goldman writes at IslamiCommentary: Before the January 22 Israeli elections media pundits in the US and Israel were predicting a sharp rightward shift by […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan 2014: How the US will Lose Yet another fruitless War (Jones)

Afghanistan 2014: How the US will Lose Yet another fruitless War (Jones)

Ann Jones writes at Tomdispatch.com: Kabul, Afghanistan — Compromise, conflict, or collapse: ask an Afghan what to expect in 2014 and you’re likely to get […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: 31 Dead in Port Said Riots over Soccer/ Football Verdict

Egypt: 31 Dead in Port Said Riots over Soccer/ Football Verdict

An Egyptian court ruled against the fans of the Port Said al-Masri soccer/ football team, sentencing 21 of them to death for their role in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/Palestine
Dead Children and Arrested Babies: Palestinian Life under Israeli Colonialism

Dead Children and Arrested Babies: Palestinian Life under Israeli Colonialism

The Palestinian West Bank has been illegally de facto annexed by Israel. This territory was not awarded to Israel even in the UN General Assembly […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: The People Still want the Fall of the Regime

Egypt: The People Still want the Fall of the Regime

On the two-year anniversary of the demonstration that kicked off the Egyptian Revolution and the Second Republic, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians came out to […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq in Crisis as Troops Shoot Down unarmed 6 Sunni Protesters

Iraq in Crisis as Troops Shoot Down unarmed 6 Sunni Protesters

Sunni Arab tribes in Falluja (presumably branches of Dulaim) on Saturday demanded that the government turn over to them within 7 days the troops who […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Jon Stewart on the Israeli Elections:  50% of Israel is “anti-Semitic” since they rebuked Netanyahu

Jon Stewart on the Israeli Elections: 50% of Israel is “anti-Semitic” since they rebuked Netanyahu

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show comments on this week’s Israel election. The takeaway? If being critical of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is “anti-Semitic,” then […]

Juan Cole

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