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Death of a Director:  Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema
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Death of a Director: Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema

Fariba Amini

After much struggle with censorship and pressure, he finally left Iran in 2010

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Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

12/30/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil Unrest – but Internet Access adds the crucial Spark

Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil Unrest – but Internet Access adds the crucial Spark

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Saddams Execution And Revival Of Baath

Saddams Execution And Revival Of Baath

Saddam’s Execution and the Revival of the Baath Party in Iraq Saddam’s half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and the head of his revolutionary court were hanged early […]

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Misreading Enemy My Op Ed At Mercury

Misreading the Enemy My op-ed at the Mercury News, “Misreading the Enemy,” argues that “As long as the Sunni Arabs of Iraq are so deeply […]

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Mahdi Army Lowers Profile Sunni Guerrillas now Mainly fight Shiites McClatchy reports that Mahdi Army militiamen in Baghdad have adopted a low profile as they […]

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If the Shoe were on the other Foot Europeans who use a credit card to buy an airplane ticket to the United States open themselves […]

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Attempts At Marginalizing Carter

Attempts At Marginalizing Carter

Attempts at Marginalizing Carter Intensify Fourteen members of the Carter Center have resigned in protest over former president Jimmy Carter’s book,”Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” AP […]

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Maliki Said To Have Pledged Mahdi

Maliki Said To Have Pledged Mahdi

Maliki Said to Have Pledged Mahdi Crackdown Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that its sources in the Iraqi government are saying that there are some secret […]

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Cole In Salon Did Us Just Provoke Iran

Cole In Salon Did Us Just Provoke Iran

Cole in Salon: Did the US just Provoke Iran? My article, “Did the US Just Provoke Iran,” about the Irbil attack and other US-Iranian tensions […]

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Terror Attack On Us Embassy In Athens

Terror Attack On Us Embassy In Athens

Terror Attack on US Embassy in Athens Terrorists fired a rocket from across the street into the US embassy in Athens on Friday morning. The […]

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