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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
Donald Trump

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

Dan Steinbock

The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

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Trumped!  The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

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Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria

Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria

After President Obama’s remarks about chemical weapons use in Syria, many newspaper articles appeared suggesting that he was rethinking his opposition to US involvement there. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession

Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession

Secretary of State John Kerry has wrung a concession from the Arab League, which now says that some minor changes in the 1967 border between […]

Juan Cole

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After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)

After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)

As deaths in the Bangladesh textile factory fire mount to over 400, on May Day workers demand they be afforded as many legal protections as […]

Juan Cole

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UNICEF: Facebook likes don't save lives, Contributions do

UNICEF: Facebook likes don’t save lives, Contributions do

UNICEF reminds us that Facebook ‘likes’ don’t save children’s lives– cash contributions do. Plus, it helps if the US Congress steps up. The Israel lobbies […]

Juan Cole

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Saudi Arabian hunter stalks desert Gazelle with pet Cheetah

Saudi Arabian hunter stalks desert Gazelle with pet Cheetah

Saudi Arabian man keeps cheetah as pet to help with hunting gazelle in the desert.

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Problems in South Carolina Lindsey Graham should worry more about than Benghazi

Top Ten Problems in South Carolina Lindsey Graham should worry more about than Benghazi

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) slammed President Obama for a deterioration in US security because, he said, of four Americans having been killed in Benghazi last […]

Juan Cole

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Cargo Plane Crash at Bagram (Video)

Cargo Plane Crash at Bagram (Video)

Warning: some may find this footage disturbing. A cargo plane crashed Monday at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, killing all 7 passengers aboard (Americans). . […]

Juan Cole

US politics
The Failure of Gun Legislation in the Senate Tells us we Need to fight for our Democracy (Graeber)

The Failure of Gun Legislation in the Senate Tells us we Need to fight for our Democracy (Graeber)

David Graeber, author of The Democracy Project, writes in a guest column for “Informed Comment” The recent defeat of gun buyers’ background check legislation in […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Karzai admits taking CIA money; Galbraith: We're not getting what we pay for

Karzai admits taking CIA money; Galbraith: We’re not getting what we pay for

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Monday confirmed an NYT report that he has been receiving cash payments in a paper bag every month from the […]

Juan Cole

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