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“Reviving old Desires:”  Saadi and Omar Khayyam  on Celebrating the New Year
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“Reviving old Desires:” Saadi and Omar Khayyam on Celebrating the New Year

Juan Cole

The dawn wind wafts the scent of the New Year / to friends’ delight and triumphant good cheer.

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

01/01/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

What “Loving-Kindness” Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year

What “Loving-Kindness” Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year

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Afghanistan
Civilian Casualties are Causing the War in the First Place: Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 4

Civilian Casualties are Causing the War in the First Place: Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 4

Part Four of Rethinking Afghanistan, directed by Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, covering the issue of civilian casualties. A new study by America’s National […]

Juan Cole

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The Israel Lobbies and Breitbartism: Dirty Tricks, Taboos and the threat to American Democracy

The Israel Lobbies and Breitbartism: Dirty Tricks, Taboos and the threat to American Democracy

Phil Weiss notes that another of the Dirty Tricks divisions of the Israel lobbies in the US, CAMERA, has denounced CNN´s Ben Wedeman for retweeting […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The $1 Trillion Cost of War:  Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 3

The $1 Trillion Cost of War: Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 3

Part 3 of Rethinking Afghanistan— on the cost of the war– directed by Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Court Punishes Palestinian-Israeli for Passing

Israeli Court Punishes Palestinian-Israeli for Passing

The conviction in Israel of a Palestinian-Israeli man on rape charges because he had consensual sex with an Israeli woman who thought he was Jewish […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Pakistan:  Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 2

Pakistan: Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 2

Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 2, directed by Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, treats the issue of the Taliban havens in northwest Pakistan and the use […]

Juan Cole

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Beck Subtext: Obama Planning to Assassinate Tea Partiers

Beck Subtext: Obama Planning to Assassinate Tea Partiers

Media Matters and Fair, day in, day out do an excellent job of refuting the often incorrect assertions made on Fox Cable News, which is […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Rethinking Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 1

Rethinking Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 1

In honor of Tuesday’s major donor’s conference in Afghanistan, Informed Comment is beginning a series of reposts of the classic six-part documentary, Rethink Afghanistan by […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Advice for General Petraeus on the Rules of Engagement:<br/> It’s Neither/Nor, Not Either/Or

Advice for General Petraeus on the Rules of Engagement:
It’s Neither/Nor, Not Either/Or

Tom Engelhardt, author of the recently-published The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s (Haymarket Books, July 2010) and editor of Tomdispatch.com, writes […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers

Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers

Sarah Palin tweeted, “Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn’t it stab you in the heart as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls. refudiate.” […]

Juan Cole

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