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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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Pepe Escobar’s interview with me on Iraq at the Asia Times is available online. An excerpt: ATol: Let’s start with the credibility of the Iraqi […]

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One Us Soldier Killed 3 Injured Along

One Us Soldier Killed 3 Injured Along

One US Soldier Killed, 3 Injured along with Contractor AP reports that guerrillas set off a roadide bomb in the Kamalaya district of Baghdad, after […]

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Destruction Of Key Bridge Halts

Destruction Of Key Bridge Halts

Destruction of Key Bridge Halts Southern Rails Muqtada Aide Declares East Baghdad an American no-go Zone Ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Guerillas blew up a key bridge just […]

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Iraqi Impotence In Every Sense Viagra

Iraqi Impotence in Every Sense Viagra importation and use is way up in Iraq. Pharmacists say that the violence and tension has reduced Iraqi libido, […]

Juan Cole

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42 Killed 138 Wounded In 3 Thursday

42 Killed 138 Wounded In 3 Thursday

42 Killed, 138 Wounded in 3 Thursday Bombings Coalition Soldier Among Dead The LA Times reports that guerrillas detonated two enormous bombs in Iraq on […]

Juan Cole

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Bush And Cheney Stick With Cover Story

Bush And Cheney Stick With Cover Story

Bush and Cheney Stick with the Cover Story On Thursday both President Bush and Vice President Cheney stuck with their assertions of a close tie […]

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Prince Of Marshes In Legal Trouble La

Prince of the Marshes in Legal Trouble The LA Times has picked up a story that had already hit the London press two weeks ago, […]

Juan Cole

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2 Us Troops Oil Official Killed 21

2 Us Troops Oil Official Killed 21

2 US Troops, Oil Official killed; 21 Wounded in Rocket Attack Reuters reports a string of attacks and mayhem yet again on Wednesday, with the […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtada Asks Militiamen To Leave Najaf

Muqtada Asks Militiamen To Leave Najaf

Muqtada Asks Militiamen to Leave Najaf Creates Party for January Elections Az-Zaman: Muqtada al-Sadr asked his supporters who had headed to Najaf to fight the […]

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