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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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Afghanistan
Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – For decades, I kept a poster on my wall that I’d saved from the year I turned 16. In its upper […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
Can the Collapse of West Antarctica's Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?

Can the Collapse of West Antarctica’s Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?

By Dan Lowry, Mario Krapp, and Nick Golledge | – ( The Conversation) – Rising seas are already making storm damage more costly, adding to […]

The Conversation

CO2
Sordid Advantage: America can't avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Sordid Advantage: America can’t avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t […]

Juan Cole

China
The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War

The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War

( Tomdispatch.com) – This summer we witnessed, with brutal clarity, the Beginning of the End: the end of Earth as we know it — a […]

Michael T. Klare

Armenia
After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?

After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( GlobalVoices.org) – Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 during the first Karabakh war in a show of […]

Global Voices

Employment
How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize

How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize

By Arvind Magesan | – Applied economists spend a large fraction of their time trying to squeeze meaningful answers — causal effects — out of […]

The Conversation

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Band of 30 militant Israeli Squatters attack Palestinian Farmers, Steal Olive Harvest in continued Sabotage that has seen 1 mn Olive Trees destroyed by Israelis since 1967

Band of 30 militant Israeli Squatters attack Palestinian Farmers, Steal Olive Harvest in continued Sabotage that has seen 1 mn Olive Trees destroyed by Israelis since 1967

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, some thirty militant Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives from […]

Juan Cole

Germany
Germany: Tesla's Electric Car sales overtake leading domestic automakers in September

Germany: Tesla’s Electric Car sales overtake leading domestic automakers in September

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Tesla is flying high in Germany: In September, more electric Tesla Model 3s were registered […]

Clean Energy Wire

Hizbullah
Violence has broken out in Beirut Again, but it isn't Senseless - it is caused by what Lebanon has not Done

Violence has broken out in Beirut Again, but it isn’t Senseless – it is caused by what Lebanon has not Done

By Lama Fakih, Crisis and Conflict Division | – ( Human Rights Watch) – Scenes from Lebanon shocked residents and the world on Thursday when […]

Human Rights Watch

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