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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

Dan Steinbock

The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

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Trumped!  The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

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Brown Excludes Iraqi Group As

Brown excludes Iraqi Group as “Dangerous” in Memphis AP reports from Memphis that a Memphis councilman barred a visiting Iraqi delegation on a State Department […]

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Coalition Troops Damage Babylon

Coalition Troops Damage Babylon

Coalition Troops Damage Babylon Reuters reports the outrage of Iraqi Minister of Culture Mufid al-Jazaeri at the damage he said is being done to the […]

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Jones Huffman Prize Its Been Nearly

Jones Huffman Prize Its Been Nearly

Jones-Huffman Prize It’s been nearly a year since Naval Reserve Lt. Kylan Jones-Huffman was killed at al-Hilla in Iraq. He had studied Middle Eastern languages […]

Juan Cole

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4 Us Troops Killed Blasts Attacks Kill

4 US Troops Killed; Blasts & Attacks Kill and Wound in Baghdad, Baquba, Mosul AP reports that guerrillas killed four US troops in separate incidents […]

Juan Cole

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Hostage Taking Demonstrations In Najaf

Hostage Taking Demonstrations In Najaf

Hostage-Taking, Demonstrations in Najaf and Karbala In the holy city of Najaf, Shiite militiamen of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army took 18 policemen hostage, in hopes […]

Juan Cole

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Cheney Blames Democrats For High Oil

Cheney Blames Democrats For High Oil

Cheney Blames Democrats for High Oil Prices (!) US Vice President Dick Cheney lambasted the Democrats on Tuesday for causing high petroleum prices. I don’t […]

Juan Cole

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Do People Want To Hurt Us Because Were

Do People Want To Hurt Us Because Were

Do People Want to Hurt us Because We’re on the Offensive? A sound bite from President Bush on Monday strikes me as emblematic of the […]

Juan Cole

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Marine Kirkuk Police Iraqi National

Marine Kirkuk Police Iraqi National

Marine, Kirkuk Police, Iraqi National Guard Killed Agence France Press reported that guerrillas killed a US Marine Tuesday in al-Anbar Province during ‘security and stability […]

Juan Cole

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Series Of Arrests In Pakistan Reveals

Series Of Arrests In Pakistan Reveals

Series of Arrests in Pakistan reveals Plot to bomb Finance Centers The uncovering of a possible al-Qaeda plot against key US financial centers in New […]

Juan Cole

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