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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True

Juan Cole

A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

06/21/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

06/21/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Why Gaza's next Crisis might be Worse than Anything We have ever seen

Why Gaza’s next Crisis might be Worse than Anything We have ever seen

( Middle East Monitor ) – “The water is back,” one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late […]

Ramzy Baroud

Afghanistan
Afghan evacuees lack a clear path for resettlement in the U.S., 7 months after Taliban takeover

Afghan evacuees lack a clear path for resettlement in the U.S., 7 months after Taliban takeover

By Tazreena Sajjad, American University School of International Service | – Russia’s war against Ukraine has resulted in more than 4 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing […]

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Petroleum
How Not to Cope with Vladimir Putin by Drilling and Pumping

How Not to Cope with Vladimir Putin by Drilling and Pumping

By Stan Cox | – ( Tomdispatch.com)- While the Ukrainian people bear the lethal brunt of Russia’s invasion, shockwaves from that war threaten to worsen […]

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Arab World
Climate Crisis: Middle East is Heating up Twice as Fast as Global Average

Climate Crisis: Middle East is Heating up Twice as Fast as Global Average

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Christoph Duenwald et al. at the International Monetary Fund have a new report out that finds that temperatures in the […]

Juan Cole

Environmentalism
Microplastics can enter our bloodstream, scientists find

Microplastics can enter our bloodstream, scientists find

By Daniel T Cross” ( Sustainability Times) – Microplastics have permeated the environment from mountain tops to the seafloor and are posing a threat to […]

Sustainability Times

Climate Crisis
Recycling Solar Panels is the Future of Sustainability: One Company is ahead of the Game

Recycling Solar Panels is the Future of Sustainability: One Company is ahead of the Game

By Hope O’Brien | ( Cronkite News ) – YUMA – Tucked between warehouses near the airport, We Recycle Solar is repurposing, reusing and recycling […]

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Far Right
Yes, Putin and Russia are fascist – a political scientist shows how they meet the textbook definition

Yes, Putin and Russia are fascist – a political scientist shows how they meet the textbook definition

By Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University – Newark | – When Vladimir Putin unleashed an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the Ukrainian media, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Combined, Green Sources generated 38% of global Electricity in 2021, for 1st Time Exceeding Coal

Combined, Green Sources generated 38% of global Electricity in 2021, for 1st Time Exceeding Coal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis shop, which prioritizes ending the use of coal to combat the climate emergency, has issued a […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
What does Russia’s history of urban warfare in Aleppo and Grozny mean for Ukraine?

What does Russia’s history of urban warfare in Aleppo and Grozny mean for Ukraine?

By Roman Shemakov | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – As the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, the conflict has increasingly focused on urban hubs. […]

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