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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
China

Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

09/13/2025 By The Conversation

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (87)

Omar Khayyam (87)

Hurry up, for you will be separated from the spirit. You will go behind the  curtain of God’s mysteries. Have some wine, since you don’t […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Life of Omar Khayyam, Part 2 (Documentary)

Life of Omar Khayyam, Part 2 (Documentary)

Part two of “The Genius of Omar Khayyam”

Juan Cole

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Iraq Slams Saudis, Qataris for Plans to Arm Syrian Rebels

Iraq Slams Saudis, Qataris for Plans to Arm Syrian Rebels

The meeting of the so-called ‘Friends of Syria’ group of nations in Istanbul on Sunday produced some heated exchanges over a key issue: whether to […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (83)

Omar Khayyam (83)

Khayyam, you wove tents of wisdom, but fell into a campfire  and suddenly burned up. The scissors of fate severed  the guy ropes of your […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Welcome to the New Third World of Energy, the U.S.

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Welcome to the New Third World of Energy, the U.S.

Michael Klare writes at Tomdispatch.com: A New Energy Third World in North America? How the Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn the United States into […]

Juan Cole

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Instruments of War Propaganda (Jamiol Cartoon)

Instruments of War Propaganda (Jamiol Cartoon)

This cartoon courtesy of Jamiol’s World. Congratulations to Paul Jamiol on the publication of his book of trenchant editorial cartoons from the past couple of […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Life of Omar Khayyam, Part 1 (Documentary)

Life of Omar Khayyam, Part 1 (Documentary)

The life and times of a medieval poet and scientist, Omar Khayyam, Part 1, a documentary by Sadiq Saba:

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (75)

Omar Khayyam (75)

That wine which can take on diverse forms in its essence sometimes becomes an animal, sometimes a plant. Don’t imagine that its being ever goes […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Polish PM Reveals that US Tortured at Black Sites in his Country

Polish PM Reveals that US Tortured at Black Sites in his Country

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk is now more or less admitting what has long been suspected: The Bush administration established a secret CIA prison in […]

Juan Cole

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