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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?
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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?

Farhang Jahanpour

One hospital in Tehran has received more than 70 corpses of demonstrators shot in the head and chest by security guards

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

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Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

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Another thing Utah Could learn from Kenya:  Olkaria IV Geothermal Plant to be largest in World

Another thing Utah Could learn from Kenya: Olkaria IV Geothermal Plant to be largest in World

Utah did not vote for President Obama, whose father hailed from Kenya. But that state has something else to learn from the east African country. […]

Juan Cole

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America is officially a Center-Left Country (Young Turks)

America is officially a Center-Left Country (Young Turks)

On how America is a center-left country, and the younger voters are more left wing than their elders. Cenk Uygur of Current TV’s “Young Turks” […]

Juan Cole

Iran
President Obama needs to get us Out of Iran, too– not Just Iraq (Escobar)

President Obama needs to get us Out of Iran, too– not Just Iraq (Escobar)

Pepe Escobar writes at Tomdispatch.com: Let’s start with the obvious but important: on entering the Oval Office in January 2009, President Obama inherited a seemingly […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt: Faction Fighting in the Streets Threatens Stability, leaves 5 dead, 450 wounded

Egypt: Faction Fighting in the Streets Threatens Stability, leaves 5 dead, 450 wounded

Egypt has descended into faction-fighting in the streets that left some 5 dead and 450 wounded on Wednesday, as President Muhammad Morsi prepared to make […]

Juan Cole

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Avoiding the Nightmarish “Four Degree World” of 2060:  We must Act Now (Giesen)

Avoiding the Nightmarish “Four Degree World” of 2060: We must Act Now (Giesen)

Tom Giesen writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Global warming’s disasters once seemed far off and science-fictional. It is now becoming clear to […]

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Egypt: 100,000 Demonstrators Deliver "Final Warning," chase President Morsi from Palace

Egypt: 100,000 Demonstrators Deliver “Final Warning,” chase President Morsi from Palace

On Tuesday, another big wave of protests was held against the policies of President Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, with rallies in in the […]

Juan Cole

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As Rebels close in on Damascus, Obama warns he'll Intervene if Chemicals are Used

As Rebels close in on Damascus, Obama warns he’ll Intervene if Chemicals are Used

President Obama warned Syria on Tuesday not to deploy its stockpile of chemical weapons against the rebels. What are apparently Israeli intelligence sources are said […]

Juan Cole

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First, Kill all the Fossil Fuel Subsidies (Plus, a Democracy Now! Video)

First, Kill all the Fossil Fuel Subsidies (Plus, a Democracy Now! Video)

Not only is the world not moving to green energy fast enough to avoid very severe future effects of climate change, its nations are still […]

Juan Cole

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Rupert Murdoch, in midst of Hacking Scandal, tried to entice Petraeus with Presidency: WaPo

Rupert Murdoch, in midst of Hacking Scandal, tried to entice Petraeus with Presidency: WaPo

Bob Woodward of the Washington Post has another scoop, on former CIA director David Petraeus and possibly from David Petraeus. It reveals that the head […]

Juan Cole

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