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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

09/05/2025 By The Conversation

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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This is the Way the Iraq War Ends, with Bangs and Whimpers

This is the Way the Iraq War Ends, with Bangs and Whimpers

The Associated Press is reporting that its sources in the Obama administration are admitting that all US troops will have to leave Iraq by 31 […]

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Did Columbus Cause Climate Change?

Did Columbus Cause Climate Change?

This story is irresistible for a world historian interested in climate change. Richard Nevle, a geochemist at Stanford, argues that the European advent in the […]

Juan Cole

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Facebook Shanghaiing

Facebook Shanghaiing

There are lots of problematic things about the way Facebook is run, and many more serious than the one I’m going to complain about. For […]

Juan Cole

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Somalia Drought Victims

Somalia Drought Victims

Somalia has been suffering from drought for two years, but now the situation is becoming a crisis. Even the recent arrival of rains is problematic […]

Juan Cole

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Mayor Bloomberg and Occupy Wall Street by the Numbers

Mayor Bloomberg and Occupy Wall Street by the Numbers

Brookfield Properties, the owner of Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been gathered for weeks, is insisting on “cleaning” its property on […]

Juan Cole

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Wagging the Dog with Iran’s Maxwell Smart

Wagging the Dog with Iran’s Maxwell Smart

I personally do not understand how the corporate media in the US can report the following things about Manssor Arbabsiar and then go on to […]

Juan Cole

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Is an Iranian Drug Cartel Behind the Assassination Plot against the Saudi Ambassador?

Is an Iranian Drug Cartel Behind the Assassination Plot against the Saudi Ambassador?

As many observers have pointed out, the story given us by Attorney General Eric Holder about the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Why did the Egyptian Military Attack the Copts?

Why did the Egyptian Military Attack the Copts?

Monday saw clashes yet again between Coptic Christians and Egyptian police, when a crowd of mourners gathered outside a hospital where the bodies of some […]

Juan Cole

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Ballen: Terrorism Can’t be Taken out and Shot

Ballen: Terrorism Can’t be Taken out and Shot

Ken Ballen, author of Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment : The policy of […]

Juan Cole

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