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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
Donald Trump

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

Dan Steinbock

The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

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Trumped!  The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

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Pakistan
Pakistan's Social Media Ban Endangers Economic Growth

Pakistan’s Social Media Ban Endangers Economic Growth

The Lahore High Court’s ban on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and some other social media sites was supported on Friday in Pakistan by rallies of students, […]

Juan Cole

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Iran Threatens to Pull out of Nuclear Deal over new UN Sanctions

Iran Threatens to Pull out of Nuclear Deal over new UN Sanctions

Iranian member of parliament Mohammad Reza Bahonar warned Thursday that “If (the West) issues a new resolution against Iran, we will not be committed to […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Other Gratuitously Offensive Draw-a-Cartoon Days

Top Ten Other Gratuitously Offensive Draw-a-Cartoon Days

The juvenile “draw Muhammad” day has generally been avoided by professional editorial cartoonists. One Islamophobic theme apparent in the writing on it is that Muslims […]

Juan Cole

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Angry Tea Partiers are not the Moral Equivalent of Compassionate Democrats

Angry Tea Partiers are not the Moral Equivalent of Compassionate Democrats

Just to enter an objection to the increasing tendency of the mainstream media to equate the Tea Party on the American right wing with supposedly […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Apartheid Israel, Bunker Israel:  Elvis Costello and Noam Chomsky

Apartheid Israel, Bunker Israel: Elvis Costello and Noam Chomsky

The repercussions of the brutal shooting-fish-in-a-barrel Gaza War, of the continued Israeli siege and boycott of the Gaza Strip, and of the vigorous colonization of […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Kabul Blast Kills 19, Wounds 52; 5 US Troops Dead

Kabul Blast Kills 19, Wounds 52; 5 US Troops Dead

The BBC is reporting that Afghan guerrillas deployed a suicide car bomb against a NATO military convoy in west Kabul near the parliament building Tuesday […]

Juan Cole

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Iran Announces Breakthrough Nuclear Exchange Deal

Iran Announces Breakthrough Nuclear Exchange Deal

Veteran Iran observer Borzou Daragahi reports on the agreement just announced by Iran and Turkey on the disposition of Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium. Under […]

Juan Cole

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

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