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

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

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Iraq Dominates Democratic Debate 14 US Troops Killed over Weekend The Democratic Party candidates for president debated on Sunday evening. Iraq dominated the first half […]

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Gore On Bush Propaganda Us Bombs Shiite

Gore on Bush Propaganda US Bombs Shiite Sadr City It is no surprise that Al Gore is attacking Bush in his new book, of course. […]

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Saturday Reading Reuters Reports Civil

Major Bridge in Kurdistan Destroyed Guerrillas Kill 4 US Troops Amiriya Clashes The US military death toll in Iraq for May was actually 127. On […]

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70 Dead In Attacks Bombing In Fallujah

70 Dead in Attacks; Bombing in Fallujah; Sadrists Warn US Military on Diwaniya; US Seeks Dialogue with Sadrists 122 US troops died in Iraq in […]

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On the False Analogy Between Iraq and South Korea Bush is now talking about a “South Korea” model for Iraq. He likely got this nonsense […]

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Iraqi Kurdistan Officials Deny Us Bases

Iraqi Kurdistan Officials Deny US Bases to be Opened in Kurdistan Region The USG Open Source Center translates the following newspaper article from Kurdish: ‘ […]

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Guerrillas Ambush, Kill 10 US GIs Over 100 Iraqis Killed or Found Dead Muqtada condemns Iran for Talking to US As best I can piece […]

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Cole on “Heroes” and the Culture Wars My column at Salon.com this week is on the television phenomenon “Heroes”. [Spoiler alert: for anyone who hasn’t […]

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First Formal US-Iran Talks since 1980 The US has dealt differently with Iran than with any other of its major enemies. Then President Ronald Reagan […]

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