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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

Dan Steinbock

The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

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Trumped!  The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

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Egypt
Egypt: The People Still want the Fall of the Regime

Egypt: The People Still want the Fall of the Regime

On the two-year anniversary of the demonstration that kicked off the Egyptian Revolution and the Second Republic, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians came out to […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq in Crisis as Troops Shoot Down unarmed 6 Sunni Protesters

Iraq in Crisis as Troops Shoot Down unarmed 6 Sunni Protesters

Sunni Arab tribes in Falluja (presumably branches of Dulaim) on Saturday demanded that the government turn over to them within 7 days the troops who […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Jon Stewart on the Israeli Elections:  50% of Israel is “anti-Semitic” since they rebuked Netanyahu

Jon Stewart on the Israeli Elections: 50% of Israel is “anti-Semitic” since they rebuked Netanyahu

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show comments on this week’s Israel election. The takeaway? If being critical of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is “anti-Semitic,” then […]

Juan Cole

Drones
UN to look into US Drone Program, but the Biggest Victim is Democracy

UN to look into US Drone Program, but the Biggest Victim is Democracy

The US use of armed drones in northern Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen is now being investigated by the United Nations as a human rights abuse […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Top Ten Republican Myths on Benghazi that Justify Hillary Clinton's Anger

Top Ten Republican Myths on Benghazi that Justify Hillary Clinton’s Anger

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton let Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) have it in her testimony about Benghazi on Wednesday:

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Uncategorized
Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis (Cole at Truthdig)

Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis (Cole at Truthdig)

My column is out at Truthdig entitled “Global Warming is a Domestic Crisis” Excerpt: “At a time of continued unemployment and Republican assaults on workers’ […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Netanyahu Emerges Weakened, But Most under Israeli Apartheid were Disenfranchised

Netanyahu Emerges Weakened, But Most under Israeli Apartheid were Disenfranchised

Early returns for the Israeli elections suggest that turnout was high in secular areas like Tel Aviv and in some Palestinian-Israeli districts, whereas it was […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

President Obama addressed the big issues of war and peace in his inaugural address, and despite the vagueness of some of his pronouncements, they contain […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Top Ten Ways President Obama has Expanded our Rights, in Rev. King’s Footsteps

Top Ten Ways President Obama has Expanded our Rights, in Rev. King’s Footsteps

In holding his inaugural on Martin Luther King Day, President Obama is underlining his achievement as the first African-American president and the first and only […]

Juan Cole

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