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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace
Donald Trump

Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

The deal offered by the United States is simple and straight forward, submit to all American demands or be obliterated

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

02/23/2026 By The Conversation

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

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Cole in Salon: The War on al-Maliki

Cole in Salon: The War on al-Maliki

My Salon column for Wednesday is now available: “The war against Iraq’s prime minister:” Sens. Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin are calling for Nouri al-Maliki’s […]

Juan Cole

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Rubin: Proposal on Narcotics in Afghanistan

Rubin: Proposal on Narcotics in Afghanistan

Barnett Rubin has just posted another entry in his brilliant series on counter-narcotics in Afghanistan.

Juan Cole

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Gonzales Gone for Wrong Reasons

Gonzales Gone for Wrong Reasons

The great shame of it all is that Alberto Gonzales was confirmed as Attorney General despite it being widely known that he had played a […]

Juan Cole

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The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Terrorism

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Terrorism

At the Global Affairs group blog, Farideh Farhi tells us how Tehran is reacting to the Bush adminstration’s threat to declare sections of the Iranian […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
War in a Time of Cholera

War in a Time of Cholera

Violence at Karbala, Baghdad, Falluja dogged the al-Maliki government on Monday, while the significance of the agreements reached by the presidential council on national reconciliation […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Churchill on When to Throw in the Towel on Iraq

Churchill on When to Throw in the Towel on Iraq

Glenn Greenwald once remarked that “the highest achievement to which one can aspire in the neocon universe it to be compared to Winston Churchill.” So […]

Juan Cole

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Williams Guest Op-ed: W. and Graham Greene

Williams Guest Op-ed: W. and Graham Greene

John S. Williams writes: “One of the most curious comments in Incurious Boy George’s recent speech before the Veterans of Foreign War in Kansas City […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Al-Maliki Threatens Journalists Al-Hashemi Plays Hard to Get

Al-Maliki Threatens Journalists Al-Hashemi Plays Hard to Get

Al-Maliki tells off US pols., threatens journalists with libel lawsuits. A hint to Mr. al-Maliki: This kind of shrillness does not look prime ministerial and […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Who is the US Fighting in Iraq?

Who is the US Fighting in Iraq?

Who exactly is the US fighting in Iraq? Graphed by self-confessed identity of captives, it is largely Sunni Arab Iraqis, often motivated primarily by the […]

Juan Cole

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