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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

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Iraq War Death Toll 8700 Iraqi Troops

Iraq War Death Toll 8700 Iraqi Troops

Iraq War Death Toll: 8,700 Iraqi Troops, 3,400 Iraqi Civilians A new study by The Project on Defence Alternatives, based on field hospital data and […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqs Christians Meet Ask For Own

Iraqs Christians Meet Ask For Own

Iraq’s Christians Meet, ask for own Province A conference of Chaldean and Assyrian Christians met in Baghdad Monday, and came to two principal decisions (al-Zaman). […]

Juan Cole

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Us Intelligence Failures On Iraq Wmd

Us Intelligence Failures On Iraq Wmd

US Intelligence Failures on Iraq WMD Rooted in Trusting Chalabi, Likud, Neocons Carl W. Ford Jr., the just-retired assistant secretary of State for intelligence and […]

Juan Cole

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Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists

Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists

Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists in Monday’s Wave of Attacks Special representative of the British government in Iraq, Jeremy Greenstock, told the BBC that the modus […]

Juan Cole

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Bangladesh Portugal Will Not Send

Bangladesh Portugal Will Not Send

Bangladesh, Portugal, will not send Troops The US military’s desperate search for an international division of peace enforcers in Iraq has pretty much completely failed. […]

Juan Cole

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57 Of Americans Want Some Troops To

57 Of Americans Want Some Troops To

57% of Americans want some Troops to Come Home; 50% of Americans Disapprove Bush Handling of Iraq According to a CNN/ USA Today poll taken […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqs Neighbors Meet On Crisis Foreign

Iraqs Neighbors Meet On Crisis Foreign

Iraq’s Neighbors meet on Crisis The foreign ministers of Iraq’s neighbors will meet in Damascus in early November, with interim Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari representing […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei Warns Of Secret Plans To

Khamenei Warns Of Secret Plans To

Khamenei Warns of Secret Plans to Dismember Iraq In an interview with al-Zaman, Iran’s Supreme Jurisprudent, Ali Khamenei, said that he was extremely worried by […]

Juan Cole

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Optimistic Pessimistic Views Of

Optimistic Pessimistic Views Of

Optimistic, Pessimistic Views of Kurdistan A friend of mine in northern Iraq sent me the following recently, which I reprint with permission. It is more […]

Juan Cole

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