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Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%
China

Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74%

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But […]

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

Iran’s President Says Rebuilding Nuclear Sites Futile Without Talks With Washington

08/12/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

Beyond Recognition: Is a Palestinian State even Possible Anymore?

08/12/2025 By The Conversation

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (4)

Omar Khayyam (4)

Man of the cloth, do me a favor. Take a deep beath and  do God’s work for us. We’re on the straight path, but you […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Qur’an-burning Protests Spread, Santorum calls Obama Weak for Apologizing

Qur’an-burning Protests Spread, Santorum calls Obama Weak for Apologizing

The protests in Afghanistan over the burning of old copies of the Qur’an, the Muslim holy book, by the US military at Bagram Base in […]

Juan Cole

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At Oscars, Director of "A Separation" Slams War Talk

At Oscars, Director of “A Separation” Slams War Talk

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film “A Separation,” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year, had this to say in his acceptance speech: […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (45)

Omar Khayyam (45)

Since things are not going  to work out the way we want, where will it get us to dwell on our struggles?– Except to sit […]

Juan Cole

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The Difference between Romney and Obama (Picture)

The Difference between Romney and Obama (Picture)

In the build-up to the Super Tuesday primaries, in 2012 and 2008, candidates Romney and Obama, respectively, addressed crowds in stadiums. Here is the difference. […]

Juan Cole

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Five Things Rick Santorum Could have Learned in College

Five Things Rick Santorum Could have Learned in College

Rick Santorum attacked President Obama on Saturday for being “a snob” because, Santorum said, the president wanted all Americans to have a college education (Obama […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (43)

Omar Khayyam (43)

Fear of mortality and notions of nothingness are your own kind of drunkeness. Otherwise you’d see  that from the  branch of death twigs of immortality grow. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas Breaks with Syrian Regime

Hamas Breaks with Syrian Regime

The Muslim Fundamentalist Palestinian party-militia Hamas, based largely in the Gaza Strip has abruptly broken with its long-time patron, Syria. The leadership has scattered from […]

Juan Cole

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Afro-Asia, Global South Reject Boycott of Iran

Afro-Asia, Global South Reject Boycott of Iran

Despite American assertions that Iran is “internationally isolated,” it turns out that the boycott of that country is a solidly Northern Hemisphere phenomenon and only […]

Juan Cole

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