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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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Climate change: why government failure to act isn’t the problem

Climate change: why government failure to act isn’t the problem

By Nick Bernards | – ( The Conversation) – The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report underscored the dire state of the climate […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
How Can US Corporations address the Climate Emergency if their Stock Buy-backs even Interfere with their Ordinary Business?

How Can US Corporations address the Climate Emergency if their Stock Buy-backs even Interfere with their Ordinary Business?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The international panel of climate science experts presents the challenge in the starkest terms. A panel of […]

John Buell

Afghanistan
Juan Cole Explains How The #Taliban Returned To Power In #Afghanistan So Quickly (David Feldman Video)

Juan Cole Explains How The #Taliban Returned To Power In #Afghanistan So Quickly (David Feldman Video)

Professor Juan Cole explains the rise of the Taliban and the rapid fall of the American supported Afghanistan government in this conversation with Professor Adnan […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Endless Shadow of the War on Terror: Living With It Forever and a Day

The Endless Shadow of the War on Terror: Living With It Forever and a Day

( Tomdispatch.com) – It ended in chaos and disaster. Kabul has fallen and Joe Biden is being blamed (by congressional Republicans in particular) for America’s […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Afghanistan
Top 6 Ways Trump forced Abrupt US Departure from Afghanistan; and that Time Trump said Taliban would take over War on Terror

Top 6 Ways Trump forced Abrupt US Departure from Afghanistan; and that Time Trump said Taliban would take over War on Terror

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 1. in December, 2018, Trump ordered that half of the then 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan be brought out. The […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
The Republican Big Lie about 2020 is Old News, but the Stakes are Still High

The Republican Big Lie about 2020 is Old News, but the Stakes are Still High

( Otherwords.org ) – Unless we debunk the lies about 2020, the next election may be a lot less fair. By Jill Richardson | August […]

Jill Richardson

Afghanistan
An Afghan American scholar describes his fear-filled journey from the chaos at Kabul airport to a plane bound for home in the US

An Afghan American scholar describes his fear-filled journey from the chaos at Kabul airport to a plane bound for home in the US

By Hanif Sufizada | – Editor’s note: Afghan scholar Hanif Sufizada, who works at the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha, […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Why Palestinian children under Israeli occupation do not Enjoy a Safe and Secure Life

Why Palestinian children under Israeli occupation do not Enjoy a Safe and Secure Life

By Motasem A Dalloul | – More than 1.2 million Palestinian children in the occupied territories returned to their schools for the new academic year […]

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Afghanistan
Biden: After Trump-Taliban Treaty, Draw-down, Staying in Afghanistan would have Required a New War

Biden: After Trump-Taliban Treaty, Draw-down, Staying in Afghanistan would have Required a New War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden on Friday gave some further insight into his decision to leave Afghanistan, and refuted some of his […]

Juan Cole

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