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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace
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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

The deal offered by the United States is simple and straight forward, submit to all American demands or be obliterated

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

02/23/2026 By The Conversation

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

02/23/2026 By Alfred W. McCoy

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Cole on Gaza Crisis (Granholm, Current TV Interview)

Cole on Gaza Crisis (Granholm, Current TV Interview)

Jennifer Granholm of Current TV’s “War Room” (10 pm ET) interviewed me on Gaza:

Juan Cole

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Gaza's Health Crisis and Israel's Crimes Against Humanity

Gaza’s Health Crisis and Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity

Israeli air strikes for the past 6 days have killed over 100 Palestinians in Gaza, many of them women and children; one strike deliberately targeted […]

Juan Cole

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Live report from Gaza, attacks on Journalists (Democracy Now!)

Live report from Gaza, attacks on Journalists (Democracy Now!)

From Democracy Now! – a live report from a Gaza hospital The blurb for the show: We get a live report from independent journalist Mohammed […]

Juan Cole

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Could a Gaza Land War lose the Middle East for America?

Could a Gaza Land War lose the Middle East for America?

Abd al-Ra’uf Arna’ut writes in the PLO newspaper al-Ayyam (The Days) that behind the scenes, the Obama administration and its European allies are exerting enormous […]

Juan Cole

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Blaming Gen. Petraeus for the Wrong Mistakes: Remembering Afghanistan (Cook)

Blaming Gen. Petraeus for the Wrong Mistakes: Remembering Afghanistan (Cook)

Regular readers know that I have been critical of Gen. Petraeus’s counterinsurgency doctrine because I found it unrealistic, and I wish the US had just […]

Juan Cole

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Winning the war on Fracking would be the biggest Victory of All (Cantarow)

Winning the war on Fracking would be the biggest Victory of All (Cantarow)

Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch: There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent […]

Juan Cole

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Palestinians say Israel trying to Silence Media, by Attacking Journalists

Palestinians say Israel trying to Silence Media, by Attacking Journalists

The USG Open Source Center translates articles from the Arabic on the Israeli attack on newspapers and journalists in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians Say Israel […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran Sanctions may be ‘Crippling,’ but they are not ‘Working’ (Cher)

Iran Sanctions may be ‘Crippling,’ but they are not ‘Working’ (Cher)

Ladan Cher writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On Iran and sanctions, a necessary clarification: “Crippling” is not synonymous for “working” In the […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Myths about Israeli Attack on Gaza

Top Ten Myths about Israeli Attack on Gaza

1. Israeli hawks represent themselves as engaged in a ‘peace process’ with the Palestinians in which Hamas refuses to join. In fact, Israel has refused […]

Juan Cole

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