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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

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Jumping from the World’s Tallest Building

Jumping from the World’s Tallest Building

Jumping from the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Via MSNBC Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy […]

Juan Cole

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EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT OF “LEARNING CURVE” TO JEFFREY GOLDBERG

EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT OF “LEARNING CURVE” TO JEFFREY GOLDBERG

EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT OF “LEARNING CURVE” TO JEFFREY GOLDBERG � The Race for Iran Hillary Mann Leverett explains to American Likudnik Jeffrey Goldberg that an […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq, Gaza, Drone Strikes in Pakistan-- the Radicalization of CIA Assassin Humam al-Balawi

Iraq, Gaza, Drone Strikes in Pakistan– the Radicalization of CIA Assassin Humam al-Balawi

I just saw a clip on Aljazeera Arabic of the “martyrdom tape” of Humam al-Balawi, the Jordanian-Palestinian double agent who carried out a suicide bombing […]

Juan Cole

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Obama: The Age of the War on Al-Qaeda

Obama: The Age of the War on Al-Qaeda

I give the text of President Obama’s speech on security below, along with video. Unlike the two speeches Obama gave in the immediate aftermath of […]

Juan Cole

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Iran and the Goldilocks Principle: Why Kuperman is Completely Wrong and the Leveretts are Only Partly Right and There are no Tunnel Bombs

Iran and the Goldilocks Principle: Why Kuperman is Completely Wrong and the Leveretts are Only Partly Right and There are no Tunnel Bombs

In the past three weeks, Iran observers have been baffled by the range of opinion appearing on the op-ed page of The New York Times […]

Juan Cole

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Obama to fix Security Flaws; but Could he Please Fix Stupid Racial Profiling?

Obama to fix Security Flaws; but Could he Please Fix Stupid Racial Profiling?

President Obama spoke firmly and with some smoldering anger on Tuesday about the failure of US intelligence to ‘connect the dots’ of information it had […]

Juan Cole

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Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Updated for 2010) |

Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Updated for 2010) |

Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Updated for 2010) | Andy Worthington Worthington has updated his invaluable list of Guantanamo prisoners, including those released. He shows […]

Juan Cole

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Symbol of Global Excess in Dubai

Symbol of Global Excess in Dubai

The world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifah or Khalifah Tower, was unveiled in Dubai on Monday. AP has video Dubai is a finance hub, the bubble […]

Juan Cole

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Afghans supported Personal Freedoms, Women’s Education in Asia Society Poll

Afghans supported Personal Freedoms, Women’s Education in Asia Society Poll

Surprises in the Asia Society poll done in June, 2009, of attitudes of Afghans. It was a big poll, with some 6400 respondents from all […]

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