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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran
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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran

Mohammad Eslami

Netanyahu traveled to Florida for an extended meeting with President Donald Trump, and the conversation focused heavily on Iran

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“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

12/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

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Candidates flee East Coast as Frankenstorm takes Revenge for their Ignoring Climate Change

Candidates flee East Coast as Frankenstorm takes Revenge for their Ignoring Climate Change

Mitt Romney and Joe Biden have canceled campaign events planned for this weekend at Virginia Beach as a massive storm bears down on the east […]

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Jon Stewart: Romney/ Bain record on Picking Winners much Worse than Obama’s

Jon Stewart: Romney/ Bain record on Picking Winners much Worse than Obama’s

Wherein Jon Stewart of the Daily Show on Comedy Central examines the proposition that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital can pick winners and losers among investment […]

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Omar Khayyam (338) “Who’ll hear the secret?”

Omar Khayyam (338) “Who’ll hear the secret?”

Where is an intimate                    friend                  who’ll hear the […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Brandeis U. Owes Jimmy Carter an Apology: Israelis agree they run Apartheid State, as Far Right Wing Coalition Emerges

Brandeis U. Owes Jimmy Carter an Apology: Israelis agree they run Apartheid State, as Far Right Wing Coalition Emerges

In 2007, Jimmy Carter’s book Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid created a firestorm of controversy. Brandeis University initially said it would only allow Carter to speak […]

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Tina Fey tells off Republicans Todd Akin, Joe Walsh and Richard Mourdock (Video)

Tina Fey tells off Republicans Todd Akin, Joe Walsh and Richard Mourdock (Video)

Comedian Tina Fey tells off the Republican candidates for the Senate and the House of Representatives as “gray-faced men with 2-dollar hair cuts” who are […]

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Drones
The United Nations will Investigate Civilian Deaths in US Drone Strikes

The United Nations will Investigate Civilian Deaths in US Drone Strikes

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism writes The United Nations plans to set up a special investigation unit examining claims of civilian deaths in individual US […]

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Egypt
Egypt President condemns Israeli Air Raids on Gaza

Egypt President condemns Israeli Air Raids on Gaza

Aljazeera Arabic is reporting on a speech by Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi on Wednesday evening Cairo time, in which the Muslim Brotherhood figure condemned Israeli […]

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Libya
Open Source Center Reports from Sept. 12 on Libya Consulate Attack Support Crowd Protests

Open Source Center Reports from Sept. 12 on Libya Consulate Attack Support Crowd Protests

Republican critics of the Obama administration’s evolving accounts of what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 imply that there was early certainty in the […]

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Lesley Gore to Todd Akin, Joe Walsh and Richard Mourdock: "You Don't Own Me" (Video)

Lesley Gore to Todd Akin, Joe Walsh and Richard Mourdock: “You Don’t Own Me” (Video)

Given the rise of neo-patriarchy, especially in the Republican Party, which keeps trying to control women’s bodies and put women in their (subordinate place), Lesley […]

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