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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change
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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change

Juan Cole

the “residents of Bonaire were wrongly treated differently from residents of the European Netherlands.”

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

01/29/2026 By Foreign Policy in Focus

Fossil Fuels are Doomed — and Trump can’t Save them

Fossil Fuels are Doomed — and Trump can’t Save them

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Yemen
Tawakul Karman, Yemen mother of 3, among winners of Nobel Peace Prize

Tawakul Karman, Yemen mother of 3, among winners of Nobel Peace Prize

One of the three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year is Tawakul Karman, 32, a Yemeni activist and mother of 3. Aljazeera has […]

Juan Cole

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Pro-Perry Evangelical Leader says Romney not a Christian, Mormonism a Cult

Pro-Perry Evangelical Leader says Romney not a Christian, Mormonism a Cult

The evangelical pastor Robert Jeffres, introduced Rick Perry at the Values Voters conference on Friday, He strongly implied in his introduction that evangelicals would have […]

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Palin was Right About those Government Death Panels

Palin was Right About those Government Death Panels

Well, the death panel has nothing to do with universal health care. But apparently it does exist, sited in the National Security Council. I discussed […]

Juan Cole

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Best of the Web on Widening Wall Street Protests

Best of the Web on Widening Wall Street Protests

The Occupy Wall Street protests spread Thursday to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Philadelphia, though these rallies were relatively small compared to the estimated 20,000 […]

Juan Cole

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Steve Jobs:  Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer

Steve Jobs: Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer

The culture wars kicked off by the 1960s are still with us. Indeed, much of the discourse of contemporary American conservatism can be boiled down […]

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