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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran
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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran

Mohammad Eslami

Netanyahu traveled to Florida for an extended meeting with President Donald Trump, and the conversation focused heavily on Iran

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“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

12/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

12/31/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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GI Killed; Sadrist Politician Assassinated

GI Killed; Sadrist Politician Assassinated

A US GI was killed on Tuesday in Mosul while answering a distress call Assailants killed Sadrist parliamentarian Salih al-`Ukayli with a roadside bomb near […]

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Suicide Bomber Kills 11 in Baquba; Turks to Continue Strikes on Iraq

Suicide Bomber Kills 11 in Baquba; Turks to Continue Strikes on Iraq

A female suicide bomber detonated her belt bomb on Wednesday near some Iraqi army humvees in front of a courthouse in Baquba, killing at least […]

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Omar Khayyam
Reprint Edn.: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes

Reprint Edn.: Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes

The below is reprinted from From February 27, 2008, because the [non-] issue is coming back up. At Cincinnati, Bill Cunningham, according to the LAT, […]

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Unreal Debate

Unreal Debate

In the real world of political ads, McCain and his surrogates are shouting ugly insults at Barack Obama. He is accused of saying that US […]

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Factcheck: McCain on Taliban

Factcheck: McCain on Taliban

Fact checking the debate: ‘MCCAIN: Now, let me just go back with you very briefly. We drove the Russians out with — the Afghan freedom […]

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Turkish Planes Pound Iraqi North; Condi: Iraq is Hard

Turkish Planes Pound Iraqi North; Condi: Iraq is Hard

Turkish war planes pounded northern Iraq on Monday, seeking to punish members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) who are implicated in bombings and other […]

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McCain in 1992: Christianity and Oil Drive US Wars in Middle East

McCain in 1992: Christianity and Oil Drive US Wars in Middle East

From “Larry King Live,” August 3, 1992: McCain gave two reasons for US military involvement in the Middle East. We are a “Judeo-Christian nation” [so […]

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McCain 1991: Unwise for US to Invade Iraq

McCain 1991: Unwise for US to Invade Iraq

On CNN’s Larry King Live, April 23, 1991, Sen. John McCain opposed invading Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein on the grounds that 1) we’d turn […]

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McCain Funded Righwing Contra Death Squads

McCain Funded Righwing Contra Death Squads

Many of the “contras” or members of right wing guerrilla groups fighting the Sandinista government in the 1980s were drug smugglers and terrorists. High government […]

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