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Israel Still Throttling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus is Eating Her Face”
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Israel Still Throttling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus is Eating Her Face”

Juan Cole

Children continue to be affected by airstrikes and the disruption of essential services, with 37 children reported killed since Jan. 1

How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

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Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume

Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume

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Darpa Cheetah Robot beats Land Speed Record

Darpa Cheetah Robot beats Land Speed Record

“This video shows a demonstration of the “Cheetah” robot galloping at speeds of up to 18 miles per hour (mph), setting a new land speed […]

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Syria
McCain: Bomb Syria; But Iraq and Russia oppose Intervention

McCain: Bomb Syria; But Iraq and Russia oppose Intervention

Senator John McCain called on Monday for US air strikes on Syria, but the Obama administration pushed back. McCain said on the Senate floor, “Foreign […]

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Netanyahu 1992:  Iran will Have the Bomb by 1997

Netanyahu 1992: Iran will Have the Bomb by 1997

Scott Peterson at the Christian Science Monitor did a useful timeline for dire Israeli and US predictions of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon, beginning 20 […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (52)

Omar Khayyam (52)

If the heart knew the secret of life as it really is, it would also know, in death, the divine mysteries. Since you know nothing […]

Juan Cole

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Libya Seeking Qaddafi Assets Abroad: Mathiason & Serle

Libya Seeking Qaddafi Assets Abroad: Mathiason & Serle

Libya acts to seize £10m Gaddafi house in London by Nick Mathiason and Jack Serle of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Gaddafis spent four […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Top Ten Dangers for Obama of Iran Sanctions on behalf of Israel

Top Ten Dangers for Obama of Iran Sanctions on behalf of Israel

President Barack Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on Sunday, warning against loose war talk regarding Iran but also threatening violence against […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, Weaponizing the Body Politic

Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, Weaponizing the Body Politic

At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California…

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (50)

Omar Khayyam (50)

You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well,  that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb

Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb

Early returns in Iran’s 9th parliamentary election since the 1979 revolution show that Ahmadinejad’s lay populists have taken a drubbing, and that hard line supporters […]

Juan Cole

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