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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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No WMD. Nada. Bupkes*. A message of mine replying to the argument that Iraq did have some WMD but that its nuclear program was not […]

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36 Us Troops Wounded In Mortar Attacks

36 Us Troops Wounded In Mortar Attacks

36 US troops Wounded in Mortar Attacks Guerrillas launched some six mortar rounds at Logistical Base Seitz west of Baghdad on Wednesday, wounding 36 US […]

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Iranians More Favorable On Iraq

Iranians More Favorable On Iraq

Iranians more Favorable on Iraq The Financial Times reports that Britain’s special representative in Iraq, Jeremy Greenstock, has said that he finds a big change […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Kofi Annan Consult By Phone

Sistani Kofi Annan Consult By Phone

Sistani, Kofi Annan, Consult by Phone Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had a telephone conversation Wednesday about the transition to […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdish Official Calls For Campaign Of

Kurdish Official Calls For Campaign Of

Kurdish official Calls for Campaign of Civil Disobedience Nushirvan Mustafa, the number 2 man in the Kurdish Patriotic Union, has demanded that the Interim Governing […]

Juan Cole

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Clark Blames Cheney Sees Bush As Cipher

Clark Blames Cheney Sees Bush As Cipher

Clark Blames Cheney, Sees Bush as Cipher From Greg Pierce’s Inside Politics “Wesley Clark, interviewed by Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” was asked, “Tell me […]

Juan Cole

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Pigeonholing Cole Ive Been

Pigeonholing Cole Ive Been

Pigeonholing Cole I’ve been concentrating in this Web Log in recent months on Iraq, though I continue to follow al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Iran and other big […]

Juan Cole

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2 Frenchmen Shot 4 Protesters Die Four

2 Frenchmen Shot 4 Protesters Die Four

2 Frenchmen Shot; 4 Protesters Die Four Iraqi protesters were killed by Iraqi police in Basra. They were veterans demonstrating because they had not received […]

Juan Cole

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Syria Turkey Agree On Kurds Syrias

Syria Turkey Agree On Kurds Syrias

Syria, Turkey agree on Kurds Syria’s Bashar al-Asad, in Ankara for talks with the Turkish government, has come out strongly against Kurdish autonomy from Iraq […]

Juan Cole

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