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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

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Caught between Iran, the Sunnis and the US, is Iraq a State without a Nation?

Caught between Iran, the Sunnis and the US, is Iraq a State without a Nation?

By Tareq A. Ramadan | – (Informed Comment) – The fall of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist dictatorship in March of 2003 was a cataclysmic political event […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers and other Forces have killed 16 Palestinian children since start of 2019

Israeli Snipers and other Forces have killed 16 Palestinian children since start of 2019

Israeli occupation forces have killed 16 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip since the start of 2019, Defence for Children […]

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Iran
Iran Crushing Rights just when it Needs understanding in the West:  Must Release Prominent Anthropologist

Iran Crushing Rights just when it Needs understanding in the West: Must Release Prominent Anthropologist

Detention of French-Iranian Anthropologist Confirms Worrying Trend

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Donald Trump
Yes, Obstruction; Yes, Collusion:  The Mueller Report Proved the one and Gave Evidence for the Other

Yes, Obstruction; Yes, Collusion: The Mueller Report Proved the one and Gave Evidence for the Other

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump keeps trying to hypnotize people by saying “No collusion, no obstruction,” and saying that Mueller exonerated him. Since so […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Russian Bribes, Mideast Plots and the Election of Trump: What Mueller has already Told Us

Russian Bribes, Mideast Plots and the Election of Trump: What Mueller has already Told Us

Reprint edition The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
40 Years ago Climate Scientists achieved their own Moonshot, Accurately Predicting Global Heating

40 Years ago Climate Scientists achieved their own Moonshot, Accurately Predicting Global Heating

By Neville Nicholls | – This month the world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon. But this […]

The Conversation

Turkey
On the Civil Struggle of Academics in Turkey: The Peace Petition Signers

On the Civil Struggle of Academics in Turkey: The Peace Petition Signers

By Iris Agmon | – On January 2016, a small Turkish organization of activists, Academics for Peace (AfP) called the Turkish government to stop its […]

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Nonviolence
How Progressive was Gene Sharp’s Nonviolence?

How Progressive was Gene Sharp’s Nonviolence?

Recent criticisms calling the founder of nonviolent theory a Cold Warrior are way off the mark. To rightly evaluate him, we need to understand the role he chose for himself.

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Change
From Concentration Camps to Environmental Collapse: How America became a Dystopian Nightmare

From Concentration Camps to Environmental Collapse: How America became a Dystopian Nightmare

( Tomdispatch.com ) – [Editorial note: This remnant of a manuscript, discovered in a vault near the coastal town of Walpole, Massachusetts, appears to have […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

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