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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves
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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]

“Look to the Rose:”  Edward FitzGerald’s  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

09/16/2025 By Juan Cole

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

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Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn't Work (Young Turks)

Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn’t Work (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur explains Romney’s apparent debate strategy, and explain why the media’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand approach obscures how outrageous the strategy is. Cenk has some fun […]

Juan Cole

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Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Desertec and Morocco’s future as a solar and wind energy powerhouse. Or, how veiled young Moroccan Muslim women engineers are more clear-eyed about the future […]

Juan Cole

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Omar Khayyam (472) “Wine, you are my insane sweetheart”

Omar Khayyam (472) “Wine, you are my insane sweetheart”

       Wine, you are                       my insane                […]

Juan Cole

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Israel Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack to start war with Iran

Israel Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack to start war with Iran

Israel lobby flack Patrick Clawson strategizes how to trick the United States into going to war against Iran on behalf of Israel. The ‘Washington Institute […]

Juan Cole

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On How Despite the Currency Crisis Iran’s State Revenues are not Collapsing

On How Despite the Currency Crisis Iran’s State Revenues are not Collapsing

The steep decline of the Iranian rial against the dollar has produced a lot of extravagant claims about the collapse of the Iranian economy. While […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Extreme Oil: Costly, Dirty and Dangerous (Klare)

Extreme Oil: Costly, Dirty and Dangerous (Klare)

Michael T. Klare writes at Tomdispatch.com: The New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities By Michael T. Klare […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (284) “God is merciful: Here, have some wine”

Omar Khayyam (284) “God is merciful: Here, have some wine”

I staggered, drunk, outside a bar last night and saw a tipsy older man emerge,  a bottle slung across his shoulder; and I said to him, […]

Juan Cole

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Lyon:  CNN censored Ahmadinejad, engaged in War Propaganda

Lyon: CNN censored Ahmadinejad, engaged in War Propaganda

Amber Lyon, Emmy-award-winning journalist who has worked for CNN, alleges to RT that the network left out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls for peace and […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran Bazaar Strikes signal Misery, not Sanctions 'Victory'

Iran Bazaar Strikes signal Misery, not Sanctions ‘Victory’

On Wednesday, the Tehran covered bazaar was closed, and the traditional market in some other cities such as Mashhad also went on strike, with demonstrators […]

Juan Cole

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