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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True

Juan Cole

A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

06/21/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

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The Supreme Court is Corrupt and We don’t Have to Put up with It

The Supreme Court is Corrupt and We don’t Have to Put up with It

By Jim Hightower | — ( Afterwords.org ) – When public officials get themselves mired in the muck of corruption, they can always count on […]

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China
China and the Axis of the Sanctioned:   How America’s Divide-and-Rule Strategy in the Middle East Backfired

China and the Axis of the Sanctioned: How America’s Divide-and-Rule Strategy in the Middle East Backfired

( Tomdispatch.com) – A photo Beijing released on March 6th of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s foreign minister Wang Yi* delivered a seismic shock in Washington. […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
The U.S. Still Spends More on Its Military Than Over 144 Nations Combined

The U.S. Still Spends More on Its Military Than Over 144 Nations Combined

By Ashik Siddique | Originally published in National Priorities Project. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – World military spending has reached a new record high […]

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European Union
The European Union is Struggling to Respond to Biden’s Subsidies for Green Energy

The European Union is Struggling to Respond to Biden’s Subsidies for Green Energy

By Anna Gumbau ( China Dialogue ) – After the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 and the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, […]

China Dialogue

Climate Crisis
Pakistan's Trans Community battles Climate Catastrophe and Exclusion

Pakistan’s Trans Community battles Climate Catastrophe and Exclusion

  Trans people affected by floods in Pakistan’s Balochistan province gather to receive aid from the non-profit Al-Khidmat Foundation, in partnership with Unilever Pakistan (Photo […]

The Third Pole

Donald Trump
DeSantis' Florida as the Epicenter of the New Culture Wars: The Coming Battle for America's Political Soul

DeSantis’ Florida as the Epicenter of the New Culture Wars: The Coming Battle for America’s Political Soul

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The concept of “woke” culture is an existential threat to Republican office holders and party officials. Led […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Authoritarianism
Turkey’s presidential Election – how Erdoğan defied the Polls to head into Runoff as Favorite

Turkey’s presidential Election – how Erdoğan defied the Polls to head into Runoff as Favorite

By Salih Yasun, Indiana University | – Turkey is heading toward a presidential runoff election on May 28, 2023, after no candidate won more than […]

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Children
After the Worst April-May Heatwave in History, Indians and Pakistanis must Demand these Urgent Climate Actions

After the Worst April-May Heatwave in History, Indians and Pakistanis must Demand these Urgent Climate Actions

Aditi Mukherji ( The Third Pole ) – When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this […]

The Third Pole

Food Insecurity
Poor Iranians Sell Their Organs Amid Deepening Economic Crisis

Poor Iranians Sell Their Organs Amid Deepening Economic Crisis

One-third of Iran’s population reportedly lives in extreme poverty. Some people are so poor that they have resorted to selling their organs on the black […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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