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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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Iraq
Sadrists Demand US Withdrawal UIA asks Sadrists to Rejoin Will Blackwater be Expelled?

Sadrists Demand US Withdrawal UIA asks Sadrists to Rejoin Will Blackwater be Expelled?

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Shiite fundamentalist ruling bloc in the Iraqi parliament, the United Iraqi Alliance, has called on the Sadr Movement to […]

Juan Cole

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Postponement of Kirkuk Referendum?

Postponement of Kirkuk Referendum?

The USG Open Source Center reports on the possible postponement of the referendum on the future of oil-rich Kirkuk province, which the Kurds want to […]

Juan Cole

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Right-Zionists try to Silence Walt at the University of Montana

Right-Zionists try to Silence Walt at the University of Montana

Richard Drake, chair of the History Department at the University of Montana, describes what it is like to invite Stephen Walt, a respected political scientist […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Greenspan: War about Oil; Bloody Sunday in Iraq

Greenspan: War about Oil; Bloody Sunday in Iraq

Alan Greenspan confirms that he urged the Bush administration to take out Saddam on grounds of petroleum security for the US, and says one official […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Sadrists withdraw from Government; Say they Will not Bring Down al-Maliki; Iraqi Military called Unprepared

Sadrists withdraw from Government; Say they Will not Bring Down al-Maliki; Iraqi Military called Unprepared

The unstable al-Maliki government is on its last legs. The Sadr Movement (32 seats) has now formally withdrawn from the United Iraqi Alliance, the Shiite […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Rep. Doggett: Congress must Respond to the Propaganda Surge

Rep. Doggett: Congress must Respond to the Propaganda Surge

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) on Iraq: Plus: International Atomic Energy head Mohammad Elbaradei walked out of a meeting where he felt a Portuguese diplomat’s speech […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Cholera Spreads in North Iraq

Cholera Spreads in North Iraq

The cholera epidemic in northern Iraq continues to grow, with 16,000 persons now estimated to have been infected. I grew up traveling and have seen […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Bush’s ‘Troop Withdrawal’ Branded Phony; Sattar Assassination a blow to Bush Optimism; 1 million Dead in Iraq?

Bush’s ‘Troop Withdrawal’ Branded Phony; Sattar Assassination a blow to Bush Optimism; 1 million Dead in Iraq?

Our national discourse has now reached a point where it is a journalistic coup just to point out when a politician is lying. Thus, the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Shaikh Sattar Killed in Bombing; Anbar State of Emergency

Shaikh Sattar Killed in Bombing; Anbar State of Emergency

Shaikh Sattar Abu Risha, leader of the Council for the Salvation of al-Anbar Province, has been killed by a bomb set at the entrance to […]

Juan Cole

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