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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

08/07/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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Iraqi Military Experts Discuss Iraqi

Iraqi Military Experts Discuss Iraqi

Iraqi Military Experts Discuss Iraqi Army, Intelligence From the USG Open Source Center, a translation of a transcript of a disccussion in Arabic by Iraqi […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Press Highlights For 18 June

Iraq Press Highlights For 18 June

Iraq Press Highlights for 18 June Translated by the USG Open Source Center– my selection of a few telling items: Highlights: Iraqi Press 18 Jun […]

Juan Cole

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40 Killed 90 Wounded In String Of

40 Killed 90 Wounded In String Of

40 Killed, 90 Wounded in String of Bombings Al-Hakim Pushes for US-Iran Talks Bombings and other civil war violence took the lives of some 43 […]

Juan Cole

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15 Dead In Shiite Mosque Bombing

15 Dead In Shiite Mosque Bombing

15 Dead in Shiite Mosque Bombing Diwaniyah Street Fighting This wire service says that some 40 died in guerrilla violence in Iraq these past few […]

Juan Cole

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Zarqawi Sought Us Iran War Abu Musab

Zarqawi Sought Us Iran War Abu Musab

Zarqawi sought US-Iran War Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hoping to provoke a US-Iran war as a way of bogging the Americans down further and defeating […]

Juan Cole

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Over 2500 Us Troops Dead In Iraq 18490

Over 2500 Us Troops Dead In Iraq 18490

Over 2500 US Troops Dead in Iraq 18,490 Wounded Time to Leave? AFP reports that the Iraqi Civil War claimed at least 27 lives on […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdish Weekly Despairs Of Iraq From

Kurdish Weekly Despairs Of Iraq From

Kurdish Weekly Despairs of Iraq From the USG Open Source Center translation of an editorial by a pro- Kurdistan Democratic Party (led by Massoud Barzani) […]

Juan Cole

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Basra Crowd Attacks Iranian Consulate

Basra Crowd Attacks Iranian Consulate

Basra Crowd Attacks Iranian Consulate Fighting in Adhamiyah An angry crowd of Iraqi Shiites attacked the Iranian Basra consulate on Wednesday, protesting an insult aired […]

Juan Cole

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Steele On Ahmadinejad Of Arenas Of

Steele On Ahmadinejad Of Arenas Of

Steele on Ahmadinejad: Of Arenas of Time and Intransitive Verbs Jonathan Steele of the Guardian does a good piece about the controversy over Iranian President […]

Juan Cole

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