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Do UN “Snapback” Sanctions really Matter to the Iranian Economy and its Nuclear Program?
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Do UN “Snapback” Sanctions really Matter to the Iranian Economy and its Nuclear Program?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The E3 — France, Britain and Germany — successfully led a bid at the UN Security Council Friday to reimpose […]

Jimmy Kimmel’s Reinstatement shows the Power of Noncooperation

Jimmy Kimmel’s Reinstatement shows the Power of Noncooperation

09/28/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

The Path to Genocide is protected by the International Community

The Path to Genocide is protected by the International Community

09/28/2025 By Ramona Wadi

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Top Ten Pieces of Bad News for Romney on Eve of Convention

Top Ten Pieces of Bad News for Romney on Eve of Convention

1. Ron Paul declined the opportunity to speak at the Republican Convention because he does not “fully support” Mr. Romney. Paul as the leader of […]

Juan Cole

Bahrain
Plot to Provoke war with Iran thwarted by Navy analyst

Plot to Provoke war with Iran thwarted by Navy analyst

Shorter WaPo: In spring of 2007, someone in the Bush administration (unindicted co-conspirator Richard Bruce Cheney? Neocons?) Sends uber hawk Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff […]

Juan Cole

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Tampa Area Republicans terrified of Tea Party, Ryan (Guzzo)

Tampa Area Republicans terrified of Tea Party, Ryan (Guzzo)

Paul Guzzo writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: As Republicans from all over the nation converge upon the City of Tampa to celebrate […]

Juan Cole

Africa
South Africa: Label West Bank Squatter Products; Israel: You Apartheid State!

South Africa: Label West Bank Squatter Products; Israel: You Apartheid State!

Having Avigdor Lieberman as a foreign minister is one of the worst things that could happen to Israel. I was in Brazil last year this […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Just Deserts: Iraqis get Iraq’s Oil, not Bush/Cheney (Muttitt)

Just Deserts: Iraqis get Iraq’s Oil, not Bush/Cheney (Muttitt)

Gregg Muttitt writes at Tomdispatch: Mission Accomplished for Big Oil? How an American Disaster Paved the Way for Big Oil’s Rise — and Possible Fall […]

Juan Cole

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Top Five Worst Planks in GOP Platform

Top Five Worst Planks in GOP Platform

These are the promises that the Republican Party is making to us if it wins: 1. Outlawing abortion altogether, with no exceptions for the life […]

Juan Cole

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Syrian Official: Resignation of al-Assad on the Table

Syrian Official: Resignation of al-Assad on the Table

Admittedly, the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad could go on faltering for a long time. And it is very hard to know what is going […]

Juan Cole

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Hurricane Isaac may Threaten RNC convention of Climate-Change Deniers in Tampa

Hurricane Isaac may Threaten RNC convention of Climate-Change Deniers in Tampa

Hurricane season comes every year in the Mexican Gulf, so it is no real surprise that a tropical depression in the Atlantic may well turn […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Rep. King:  Meet a Pregnant Rape Victim

Dear Rep. King: Meet a Pregnant Rape Victim

Following in Rep. Todd Akin’s footsteps, evangelical extremist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said today of pregnancy from rape, “Well I just haven’t heard of that […]

Juan Cole

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