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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East
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Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After thirty years of agitation, incitement, lies and provocation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally succeeded in […]

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

06/24/2025 By The Conversation

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

06/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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17 Bombings of Shiite Districts Kill 113; Fears of Sectarian Reprisals

17 Bombings of Shiite Districts Kill 113; Fears of Sectarian Reprisals

The LA Times is putting the death toll of Tuesday’s series of 17 bombings of Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad at an astonishing 113, one of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre

Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre

Iraq’s security problems continue to be severe, if not generally crippling the way they were in 2006, as underlined by Sunday’s guerrilla takeover of a […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”

Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”

My column is out at Truthdig is out, entitled “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House” Excerpt: ‘ Although Congress for the most part […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
On How War with Iran might Destroy the United States

On How War with Iran might Destroy the United States

David Broder is a respected political analyst. I once had breakfast with him and I like him. I often think his columns are on the […]

Juan Cole

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Ted Nugent vs. Jon Stewart: Fumigating the Democrat Rats vs. Can't we all Get Along?

Ted Nugent vs. Jon Stewart: Fumigating the Democrat Rats vs. Can’t we all Get Along?

There were lots of political rallies on Saturday, not just the big one on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The Rally to Restore Sanity / […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Saudi Arabia Saves Chicago Synagogue from al-Qaeda Bomb Plot

Saudi Arabia Saves Chicago Synagogue from al-Qaeda Bomb Plot

CNN reports that Saudi intelligence was the source of the information on the tracking numbers of two bomb packets sent by UPS and Fedex from […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Ballot Fraud, Mafia Rule making Afghans Pessimistic: Chayes

Ballot Fraud, Mafia Rule making Afghans Pessimistic: Chayes

I heard Sarah Chayes at the Michigan Theater on Thursday afternoon, speaking on Afghanistan. She is a long time expatriate in Qandahar, where she arrived […]

Juan Cole

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American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR

American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR

NPR reports that Arizona’s fascist immigration law was cooked up and in large part written by the private prison industry in the state, which saw […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Mission Impossible:  Iraq

Mission Impossible: Iraq

Mission Impossible: Government Formation Producer and screenwriter: The United States Starring: Nuri al-Maliki, Iyad Allawi, Ammar al-Hakim, Salih al-Mutlak, Muqtada al-Sadr, Tariq al-Hashimi Sound and […]

Juan Cole

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