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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran
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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran

Mohammad Eslami

Netanyahu traveled to Florida for an extended meeting with President Donald Trump, and the conversation focused heavily on Iran

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“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

12/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

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Rape in India, and the Low Status of Women

Rape in India, and the Low Status of Women

The unnamed Indian woman who was gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi and had to be sent to Singapore for medical treatment has died […]

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Best Green Energy Responses to Climate Crisis:  IC's 2012 Amun-Ra Award

Best Green Energy Responses to Climate Crisis: IC’s 2012 Amun-Ra Award

I have created an annual Amun-Ra award for heroic green energy responses to our global climate crisis. Climate change is by far the most urgent […]

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Top 10 Ways the Middle East Changed, 2012

Top 10 Ways the Middle East Changed, 2012

1. The end of any potential ‘two state solution’ to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel’s far right wing Likud government, headed by Binyamin Netanyahu, built or […]

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Schwarzkopf (RIP) and How the United States got Bogged Down in the Middle East

Schwarzkopf (RIP) and How the United States got Bogged Down in the Middle East

Gen. Norman H. Schwarzkopf is dead at 78. He died of pneumonia. Schwarzkopf was among the military leaders who repositioned the United States as a […]

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FBI Violated Constitution by Branding Peaceful Occupy Wall Street as Terrorist threat

FBI Violated Constitution by Branding Peaceful Occupy Wall Street as Terrorist threat

Second Amendment fundamentalists push for open carrying of firearms in public, and armed gun nuts even attended one of President Obama’s rallies in Arizona. That […]

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The Afghan Sk8ter Girrls of Kabul (Video) - (Female Literacy has Tripled in Afghanistan)

The Afghan Sk8ter Girrls of Kabul (Video) – (Female Literacy has Tripled in Afghanistan)

Skateistan is a skateboard NGO in Kabul, which maintains a facility for skateboarding and gets as many as 300 youth to attend as spectators at […]

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Syria
Syria's Head of Military Police Defects, as Death Toll in Revolution Climbs to 45,000

Syria’s Head of Military Police Defects, as Death Toll in Revolution Climbs to 45,000

Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Jasim al-Shalal, head of Syria’s military police, defected late Tuesday to Turkey, joining the revolutionaries against the regime. He announced his […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt:  Women Cut their Hair in Tahrir Square to Protest Fundamentalist Constitution

Egypt: Women Cut their Hair in Tahrir Square to Protest Fundamentalist Constitution

Dozens of progressive Egyptian women cut their hair in Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest the passage of Egypt’s new, fundamentalist constitution. The protesters chanted, […]

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Egypt
New Fundamentalist Constitution Approved, Heralds turn to Egyptian Theocracy

New Fundamentalist Constitution Approved, Heralds turn to Egyptian Theocracy

The Egyptian electoral commission on Tuesday signed off on the constitutional referendum, declaring that the country’s guiding legal framework had received a little over 63 […]

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