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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

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Israel/ Palestine
Hawking joins Academic Boycott of Israel

Hawking joins Academic Boycott of Israel

Physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the annual President’s Conference in Jerusalem this year has been confirmed by Cambridge University. The university initially attempted to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Russia Warns Israel:  Hands off Syria, as PFLP threatens Guerrilla Strike

Russia Warns Israel: Hands off Syria, as PFLP threatens Guerrilla Strike

The Iranian press is reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has vehemently warned Israel against further airstrikes on Syria. Putin is said to be accelerating […]

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Iraq
Another view of Baghdad: Timelapse Video

Another view of Baghdad: Timelapse Video

Baghdad timelapse

Juan Cole

Turkey
ReOrienting the Veil (Gökariksel)

ReOrienting the Veil (Gökariksel)

Banu Gökariksel writes for for ISLAMiCommentary Fatih neighborhood of Istanbul, 2009. photo by Banu Gökarıksel Banu Gökarıksel The veil is a piece of fabric that […]

Juan Cole

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A Million Newborns die the Day they are Born, every Year: Save the Children

A Million Newborns die the Day they are Born, every Year: Save the Children

Save the Children reports that a million newborns every year die the same day they are born. Most of these babies die of infections and […]

Juan Cole

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Fisk on Syria and Stenography “Journalism” (Democracy Now! Video)

Fisk on Syria and Stenography “Journalism” (Democracy Now! Video)

Veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk is interviewed by Amy Goodman on his experiences in Syria. In the course of the interview, he denounces the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
On how Rightwing Israel-firsters don't actually like Jews: Glenn Beck's Nazi Bloomberg

On how Rightwing Israel-firsters don’t actually like Jews: Glenn Beck’s Nazi Bloomberg

The wingnut psychopathology of Glenn Beck and many other hyper-conservatives doesn’t prevent them from being lionized in the media, turned into millionaires by media corporations, […]

Juan Cole

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Unsustainable:  The American Empire Project and the Health of the Planet (Engelhardt)

Unsustainable: The American Empire Project and the Health of the Planet (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the […]

Juan Cole

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The Worst Places to be a mother-- Save the Children

The Worst Places to be a mother– Save the Children

Save the Children has issued its annual report on mothers and newborns. The best place to be a mother? Finland! The worst? The Congo. Save […]

Juan Cole

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