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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade
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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Chinese policy and security circles interpret the tariff threat less as an attempt to alter Iran’s behavior than as a signal to third parties

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2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

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Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

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Obama's Lawless Drones have caused Yemen al-Qaeda to Triple (Young Turks)

Obama’s Lawless Drones have caused Yemen al-Qaeda to Triple (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur on the scandal of the Obama administration’s admission that it had no clear criteria for drone strikes. According to the NYT, the Obama […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt Polarized as 200,000 Tahrir demonstrators and Crowds in other Cities protest Morsi's "Temporary Dictatorship"

Egypt Polarized as 200,000 Tahrir demonstrators and Crowds in other Cities protest Morsi’s “Temporary Dictatorship”

On Wednesday morning, in the wake of a huge demonstration downtown Cairo, the crowds assembled in Tahrir Square faced tear gas barrages whenever they moved […]

Juan Cole

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Tea Party Congress Biggest Obstacle to the Electric Car (Granholm)

Tea Party Congress Biggest Obstacle to the Electric Car (Granholm)

Jennifer Granholm’s War Room guests discuss the roadblocks in the way of a major new, job-creating industry in the US, the electric vehicle. The Tea […]

Juan Cole

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Syria Charged Turkey with “Air Piracy,” New Documents Say (Schoofs and Larson)

Syria Charged Turkey with “Air Piracy,” New Documents Say (Schoofs and Larson)

Mark Schoofs and Jeff Larson write at ProPublica: Documents posted online Monday by hackers associated with the online group Anonymous appear to give new details […]

Juan Cole

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Gaza in Rubble, and Slim hopes for Peace (Abdel Kouddous)

Gaza in Rubble, and Slim hopes for Peace (Abdel Kouddous)

Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Gaza’s “Severe Damage” and Why Truce Won’t Stop the Violence of Occupation at Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” The blurb from the […]

Juan Cole

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Tom Ricks finally Tells Fox News ("GOP TV") off on the Phony Benghazi "Issue"

Tom Ricks finally Tells Fox News (“GOP TV”) off on the Phony Benghazi “Issue”

Pulitzer Prize-winning war journalist Tom Ricks was brought on Fox Cable News to discussion Susan Rice and the so-called Benghazi affair. His retort that Fox […]

Juan Cole

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Let the Palestinians have their “Kaf-Tet Be’November” (Sternfeld)

Let the Palestinians have their “Kaf-Tet Be’November” (Sternfeld)

Lior Sternfeld writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: On November 29, 1947 the UN general assembly granted the Zionist movement one of its […]

Juan Cole

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Bigger than the IT Revolution: Solar is Going to Electronics Firms, Energy Giants Left Behind (Video)

Bigger than the IT Revolution: Solar is Going to Electronics Firms, Energy Giants Left Behind (Video)

Excellent documentary on the fast-breaking solar technology revolution. From www.vpro.nl/ backlight.

Juan Cole

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Egypt Constitutional Crisis: Morsi to Meet Judges as Weekend Clashes leave Two Dead, hundreds wounded

Egypt Constitutional Crisis: Morsi to Meet Judges as Weekend Clashes leave Two Dead, hundreds wounded

Egypt is on the knife edge between plunging into Algeria-style faction-fighting between secularists and Muslim fundamentalists, and finding a graceful way for its elected president […]

Juan Cole

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