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Israel and American Hawks are pushing US to Iran War with Catastrophic Consequences
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Israel and American Hawks are pushing US to Iran War with Catastrophic Consequences

Hugh J. Curran

the U.S. is approaching the precipice without articulating a vision as to what will follow, plunging toward a large-scale war against Iran

“The Dawn of Nothing:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:38

“The Dawn of Nothing:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:38

02/22/2026 By Juan Cole

Saudi foreign policy makers have read Sun Tzu well. Have Iran’s?

Saudi foreign policy makers have read Sun Tzu well. Have Iran’s?

02/22/2026 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians Observe Nakbah or Catastrophe Day, raise Hopes of Unity

Palestinians Observe Nakbah or Catastrophe Day, raise Hopes of Unity

Thousands of Palestinians rallied in Gaza on Saturday to commemorate the Nakbah or national catastrophe of 1948, when European Jewish settlers brought into the Mandate […]

Juan Cole

Energy
BP Trashes Apollo Astronauts, Parrots Sarah Palin; Oil Godzilla heads for Coast

BP Trashes Apollo Astronauts, Parrots Sarah Palin; Oil Godzilla heads for Coast

In a BBC interview British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward said Friday that the massive petroleum gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, the greatest oil-based environmental […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
US Troop Withdrawal in Iraq on Track

US Troop Withdrawal in Iraq on Track

WaPo says that the Obama administration is still on track to draw down to 50,000 troops in Iraq by September 1, despite press speculation to […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Karzai Defeats Obama 2-1

Karzai Defeats Obama 2-1

Afghanistan is already beginning to defeat Barack Obama. He came into office last year clearly hoping to find a way to move Hamid Karzai, the […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Police: Shahzad has no Links to Taliban; Clinton Remarks Produce Firestorm in Pakistan

Police: Shahzad has no Links to Taliban; Clinton Remarks Produce Firestorm in Pakistan

Pakistani authorities doing the hard police work in Karachi of attempting to trace the network of friends and contacts of attempted Times Square bomber Faisal […]

Juan Cole

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Follow IC at Twitter, Facebook

Follow IC at Twitter, Facebook

Facebook keeps promising to lift the 5000-friend limit, but has not done it. So my account over there is more or less full. Just to […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq Death Toll from Attacks rises to 119, Biggest since Start of Year

Iraq Death Toll from Attacks rises to 119, Biggest since Start of Year

AP is reporting that the wave of bombings and attacks throughout Iraq on Monday is now estimated to have killed 119 persons. Although some analysts […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Guerrilla War Continues: 31 Killed in Iraq Attacks; Allawi, Maliki to Meet

Guerrilla War Continues: 31 Killed in Iraq Attacks; Allawi, Maliki to Meet

A series of coordinated attacks on checkpoints and a Shiite mosque on Monday in Iraq demonstrated that the guerrilla opposition to the US-imposed new order […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Salisbury:   Times Square Rorschach Test

Salisbury: Times Square Rorschach Test

Stephan Salisbury of the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of Mohamed’s Ghosts writes in a guest essay for Informed Comment: In the smoke roiling up from […]

Juan Cole

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