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For Christmas: Jesus’ Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry
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For Christmas: Jesus’ Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry

Juan Cole

Muslim mystics such as Rumi, Attar and other Sufi writers often referred to Jesus as a symbol of spirituality and love.

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Trump Announces Plan to Break Up the Life-Saving National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Can the American Dream Survive Trump until 2029?

Can the American Dream Survive Trump until 2029?

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Sunday Afternoon Reading on the Exciting Middle East

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California gasoline crisis shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars

California gasoline crisis shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars

The Big Oil lobby is always talking about how unreliable wind and solar energy are. They say the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and […]

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Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)

Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)

At first I thought that this late 2010 map of Facebook network connections left the Arab world blank. But I zeroed in, and Tunis, Alexandria […]

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Half of All Solar Panels are in Germany (Video)

Half of All Solar Panels are in Germany (Video)

Video report on how exactly Germany’s renewable energy revolution has worked. From Renewable Energy Magazine

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2012 Rumble/ Debate between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart (Video)

2012 Rumble/ Debate between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart (Video)

The 2012 Rumble (debate) between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart: Best line: ‘Why should anyone vote for President Obama again?” Jon Stewart: “There are only […]

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (336)

Omar Khayyam (336)

I know the outside  of being and nothingness, and I know the inside  of the high and the low. Even so, I should be ashamed  […]

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Imran Khan Protest Convoy Against US Drones Heads toward Waziristan, Pakistan

Imran Khan Protest Convoy Against US Drones Heads toward Waziristan, Pakistan

Charismatic Pakistani opposition politician, Imran Khan, set out Saturday from Islamabad in a motorized convoy for a mobile protest by his Justice Party against continued […]

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Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn't Work (Young Turks)

Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn’t Work (Young Turks)

Cenk Uygur explains Romney’s apparent debate strategy, and explain why the media’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand approach obscures how outrageous the strategy is. Cenk has some fun […]

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Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Desertec and Morocco’s future as a solar and wind energy powerhouse. Or, how veiled young Moroccan Muslim women engineers are more clear-eyed about the future […]

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