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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

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

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( Tomdispatch.com ) – My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and “the arc of the moral […]

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Pope Francis Calls for Painstaking Investigation into Whether Israeli War on Gaza is a Genocide

Pope Francis Calls for Painstaking Investigation into Whether Israeli War on Gaza is a Genocide

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Pope Francis has a new book, Hope never disappoints. Pilgrims towards a better world. The English version is not out […]

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Analysis of 184 Israeli Forced Displacement Orders in Gaza shows they are a Crime Against Humanity

Analysis of 184 Israeli Forced Displacement Orders in Gaza shows they are a Crime Against Humanity

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Gaza: Outlook for Palestinians Bleak under a Trump Presidency that will go ‘all the way’ with Netanyahu

By Clive Jones, Durham University | – (The Conversation) – The amount of aid reaching Gaza has fallen to an 11-month low according to Israeli […]

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Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of civic duty by the […]

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Universities
Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy

Protesting MIT’s Disciplining of Grad for pro-Palestine Activism and Advocacy

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Sally Kornbluth President Sally.kornbluth@mit.edu . . .   Dear President Kornbluth and Colleagues:   […]

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Requiem for an Empire: How America’s Strongman will hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. […]

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Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whatever postures our country has projected to the world – shining city on a hill; leader of […]

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Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

By by Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with […]

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