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The wrong question about the war in Iran
Donald Trump

The wrong question about the war in Iran

Yakov M. Rabkin

the more important issue is what benefit Israel, the war’s proponent and initiator, stands to gain

On Int’l Women’s Day, the US needs an Equal Rights Amendment

On Int’l Women’s Day, the US needs an Equal Rights Amendment

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Iran as a new Forever War

Iran as a new Forever War

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Drones and Democracy (Moyers Video Interview)

Drones and Democracy (Moyers Video Interview)

Bill Moyers discusses with his guests the question of “Drones and Democracy” The blurb for the show from BillMoyers.com: Vicki Divoll and Vincent Warren on […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Stop the Great Coal Export Conspiracy!  (Greenpeace)

Stop the Great Coal Export Conspiracy! (Greenpeace)

Greenpeace USA explains: Big Coal plans to get around Environmental Protection Agency restrictions on toxic emissions by just shipping the coal abroad to countries that […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo

Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo

NBC’s Michael Isikoff has revealed the text of a white paper composed for Congress by the Department of Justice that sheds light on the legal […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Paranoia Strikes Deep:  A Cowering America still Haunted by Bin Laden’s Ghost (Engelhardt)

Paranoia Strikes Deep: A Cowering America still Haunted by Bin Laden’s Ghost (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Consider Inauguration Day, more than two weeks gone and already part of our distant past.  In its wake, President Obama […]

Juan Cole

Drones
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 […]

Juan Cole

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

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