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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace
Donald Trump

Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

The deal offered by the United States is simple and straight forward, submit to all American demands or be obliterated

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

02/23/2026 By The Conversation

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

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Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit” (Democracy Now!)

Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit” (Democracy Now!)

Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” reports on the leaked drone memo authorizing killing of American citizens abroad at the president’s order: The blurb for the show: […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Malala Yousafzai nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Starts Foundation for Girls' Education

Malala Yousafzai nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Starts Foundation for Girls’ Education

Malala Yousafzai has released two videos in the past few days, one before her surgery to put a plate in her skull, and after she […]

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Africa

US Covert Drone War in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia – Jan. Update (Woods et al.)

Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Yemen was hit by the highest number of airstrikes in […]

Juan Cole

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Iran President accuses Speaker of Parliament of Corruption, as Labor Minister is Impeached

Iran President accuses Speaker of Parliament of Corruption, as Labor Minister is Impeached

With the Iranian presidential elections only 5 months away, Iranian politics is heating up. Outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday accused the family of the […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Natural Gas Platform Sinks

Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Natural Gas Platform Sinks

A $40 million platform unit in the Persian Gulf designed to increase Iran’s natural gas production sank last week. It was built with Iranian government […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Will a declining America Start Having to Obey the same Rules as Everybody Else?  (Chomsky)

Will a declining America Start Having to Obey the same Rules as Everybody Else? (Chomsky)

Noam Chomsky writes at Tomdispatch.com: [This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria: Rebels take Aleppo Airport Road; NYT: Obama Nixed Clinton/Petraeus Plan to Arm Rebels

Syria: Rebels take Aleppo Airport Road; NYT: Obama Nixed Clinton/Petraeus Plan to Arm Rebels

Syria’s revolutionaries are saying that they have taken a key Aleppo district, Sheikh Said, that enables them to block the road to the airport. The […]

Juan Cole

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Obama Closing the Office that Had been charged with closing Guantanamo Bay (Colbert Report)

Obama Closing the Office that Had been charged with closing Guantanamo Bay (Colbert Report)

Stephen Colbert reports on the Obama administration’s closing of the office that was supposed to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. The Colbert Report Get More: […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egyptian Cities Erupt in anti-Morsi Demonstrations

Egyptian Cities Erupt in anti-Morsi Demonstrations

Tens of thousands of Egyptians demonstrated around the country on Friday, despite cold, rainy weather in Alexandria and along the Canal zone. In Cairo itself, […]

Juan Cole

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