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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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Top 3 Ways Biden can restore Iran Nuclear Deal if he Really Wants To

Top 3 Ways Biden can restore Iran Nuclear Deal if he Really Wants To

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Diplomacy is the art of the possible, and so far the Biden administration isn’t showing a mastery of that art […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Global Heating will bring enormous economic costs, but cutting emissions now will save money later.

Global Heating will bring enormous economic costs, but cutting emissions now will save money later.

This article was co-published with The New York Times. By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica ) – There will be no bargains with an […]

ProPublica

Israel/ Palestine
Israel:  Un-ban the 6 Palestinian human rights groups

Israel: Un-ban the 6 Palestinian human rights groups

Middle East Monitor Editorial | – Last Friday, Israel outright banned six leading Palestinian human rights groups. To do so, Defence”Minister Benny Gantz and his […]

Middle East Monitor

Anti-Vaccination
Your unvaccinated friend is roughly 20 times more likely to give you COVID

Your unvaccinated friend is roughly 20 times more likely to give you COVID

By Christopher Baker and Andrew Robinson | – As lockdowns ease in New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT, and people return to work and […]

The Conversation

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It is the Israeli Occupation of the Stateless Palestinians that is the settler Colonial State, and, yes, Apartheid

It is the Israeli Occupation of the Stateless Palestinians that is the settler Colonial State, and, yes, Apartheid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Apologists for Israeli policy have taken umbrage at the characterization of Israel as a settler colonial state that practices Apartheid. […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
In Bid to shut down New England’s last coal plant: Kayaktivists and Garden Blockaders try to Save Planet

In Bid to shut down New England’s last coal plant: Kayaktivists and Garden Blockaders try to Save Planet

Arnie Alpert | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – There’s one form of power that’s generated when hot water turns turbines to create electricity. There are […]

Waging Nonviolence

Israel/ Palestine
Remembering Israel's Brutal massacre of Palestinian Civilians in Kafr Qasem

Remembering Israel’s Brutal massacre of Palestinian Civilians in Kafr Qasem

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s seemingly never-ending drive to uproot Palestinians from their homes by force of arms […]

Middle East Monitor

Africa
Dune – a prophetic tale about the environmental destruction wrought by the colonisation of Africa

Dune – a prophetic tale about the environmental destruction wrought by the colonisation of Africa

By Oli Mould | – Director Denis Villeneuve’s most recent sci-fi epic is the latest attempt to tell the story of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed 1965 […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress

Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia may succeed in preventing Congress from legislating the quick demise of coal and gas […]

Juan Cole

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