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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

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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Pipeline Sabotage Baghdad Bombing Ten

Pipeline Sabotage Baghdad Bombing Ten

Pipeline Sabotage, Baghdad Bombing Ten people were killed and 11 kidnapped in Iraq on Saturday. The current Marine offensive against guerrillas in Ramadi killed 3 […]

Juan Cole

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5 Us Troops Die Sistani Blesses

5 Us Troops Die Sistani Blesses

5 US Troops Die Sistani Blesses Jaafari Ibrahim Jaafari, the candidate for prime minister of the religious Shiite coalition, met Friday with Grand Ayatollah Sistani,who […]

Juan Cole

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30 Dead In Iraq Violence Ap Reports

30 Dead In Iraq Violence Ap Reports

30 Dead in Iraq Violence AP reports that the one-day total for war-related violence in Iraq, including the police station bombing in Tikrit reported here […]

Juan Cole

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Koufax Complete List Ive Gotten Around

Koufax Complete List Ive Gotten Around

Koufax Complete List I’ve gotten around to stealing code for the complete list of Koufax Award Winners at Wampum. Best Blog (Non-Sponsored): Daily Kos Best […]

Juan Cole

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Bomb Blasts In Tikrit Haglaniyah Mosul

Bomb Blasts In Tikrit Haglaniyah Mosul

Bomb Blasts in Tikrit, Haglaniyah, Mosul Produce Dozens of Casualties AP reports on violence in Iraq Tuesday: ‘ A car bomb exploded near police headquarters […]

Juan Cole

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Were Shiites Cheated And What Does

Were Shiites Cheated And What Does

Were the Shiites Cheated? And What does Allawi Want? Al-Hayat has a long interview with an “informed Iraqi source” who is close to US officials […]

Juan Cole

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Show Trials And Phony Confessions

Show Trials And Phony Confessions

Show Trials and Phony Confessions Target Syria AP reports on a televised confession of someone who said he was a Syrian agent in Iraq in […]

Juan Cole

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Association Of Muslim Scholars Denies

Association Of Muslim Scholars Denies

Association of Muslim Scholars Denies Negotiations with US Gilbert Achcar kindly supplied the following translation: The following interesting excerpt from today’s (Feb 23) Al-Hayat (my […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Blogging Nick Turse At

Iraq Blogging Nick Turse At

Iraq-Blogging Nick Turse at tomdispatch.com skewers Donald Rumsfeld’s various rhetorical strategies of evasion whenever he has been asked hard questions about Abu Ghraib, the situation […]

Juan Cole

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