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A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio
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A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio

Joseph Richard Preville

A Review of Minister Without Portfolio: Memoir of a Reluctant Exile by Hooman Majd. Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Everybody needs a home. […]

Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions

Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions

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Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?

Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?

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Energy
Israel, Electric Cars, and Existential Threats

Israel, Electric Cars, and Existential Threats

Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has launched an Israeli electric car, and also arranged for four recharging stations. Israel is a perfect place for this experiment, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters fire with Impunity at Palestinian civilians as Israeli Army watches

Israeli Squatters fire with Impunity at Palestinian civilians as Israeli Army watches

The slow civil war in the Palestinian West Bank, occupied illegally by Israel, between the hundreds of thousands of Israeli squatters planted there by the […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt between the Left, Muslim Fundamentalism, and the Old Regime

Egypt between the Left, Muslim Fundamentalism, and the Old Regime

The campaigns of the candidates for president of Egypt drew to a close at midnight on Sunday, in preparation for voting on Wednesday and Thursday. […]

Juan Cole

Energy
The Great Fracking Catastrophe in Rural America (Cantarow)

The Great Fracking Catastrophe in Rural America (Cantarow)

Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com If the world can be seen in a grain of sand, watch out.  As Wisconsinites are learning, there’s money (and […]

Juan Cole

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Congress Wants the Department of Defense to Propagandize Americans

Congress Wants the Department of Defense to Propagandize Americans

Two congressmen are attempting to insert a provision in the National Defense Authorization act that would allow the Department of Defense to subject the US […]

Juan Cole

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“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market…” (JFK Poster)

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market…” (JFK Poster)

Juan Cole

Syria
Aleppo Joins the Syrian Revolution:  Are al-Assad’s Days Numbered?

Aleppo Joins the Syrian Revolution: Are al-Assad’s Days Numbered?

The largest demonstrations held in Syria’s second city, Aleppo, since the beginning over a year ago of the revolutionary movement in that country, were held […]

Juan Cole

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Frantic Civilian Tweets Map Out US Drone Strikes in Yemen (Woods and Serle)

Frantic Civilian Tweets Map Out US Drone Strikes in Yemen (Woods and Serle)

Chris Woods and Jack Serle write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Though the hour was late, Yemen’s social media was still very much awake. […]

Juan Cole

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NDAA Provisions attacking Freedom of Speech Struck Down

NDAA Provisions attacking Freedom of Speech Struck Down

A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional portions of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which provided for indefinite imprisonment for journalists and activists who […]

Juan Cole

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