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Death of a Director:  Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema
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Death of a Director: Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema

Fariba Amini

After much struggle with censorship and pressure, he finally left Iran in 2010

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“Through the Seventh Gate:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:31

“Through the Seventh Gate:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:31

12/30/2025 By Juan Cole

Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

12/30/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

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How Israel's Bus Segregation Affects Palestinian Workers

How Israel’s Bus Segregation Affects Palestinian Workers

AJ+ | — ‘Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has argued for keeping Palestinian workers off of public Israeli buses. Yaalon says the laborers are dangerous […]

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Climate Change
Thanksgiving was always about Climate and Adaptation: Let’s Make it Green Again

Thanksgiving was always about Climate and Adaptation: Let’s Make it Green Again

By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a […]

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nationalism
Turkish Pres. Erdogan says Women not Equal to Men: "Their System is Different."

Turkish Pres. Erdogan says Women not Equal to Men: “Their System is Different.”

Euronews | — “The Turkish President has triggered fresh controversy, declaring in a speech that women are not equal to men. Recep Tayyip Erdogan also […]

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Afghanistan
What if it was Russia and China invading and Bombing?  The Blindness of MSM and Washington

What if it was Russia and China invading and Bombing? The Blindness of MSM and Washington

By Tom Engelhardt (Tomdispatch.com) | — Let’s play a game, the kind that makes no sense on this single-superpower planet of ours. For a moment, […]

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Climate Change
Global Warming brings extreme Floods and Drought:  World Bank

Global Warming brings extreme Floods and Drought: World Bank

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer (Commondreams.org) “Even very ambitious mitigation” can’t change the fact that the world has already “locked in” mid-century warming of 1.5°C […]

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African-Americans
Racial Fearmongering and Ferguson:  US Stereotype of "violent" African-American Men as old as Slavery

Racial Fearmongering and Ferguson: US Stereotype of “violent” African-American Men as old as Slavery

By Peter Bloom, The Open University (The Conversation) The decision not to charge police officer Darren Wilson with the unlawful shooting of unarmed teen Michael […]

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African-Americans
Race inequality between US Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers (Again)

Race inequality between US Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers (Again)

By Juan Cole | — With regard to employment, African-Americans got hit harder by the Bush Depression than did whites, and jobs have not come […]

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Iran
Iran:  US War Hawks go on Offensive after Nuclear Energy Talk Deadlines are Postponed

Iran: US War Hawks go on Offensive after Nuclear Energy Talk Deadlines are Postponed

by Jim Lobe | (Inter Press Service) | — Buoyed by the failure of the U.S. and five other powers to reach a comprehensive agreement […]

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African-Americans
The Ferguson, Mo. Shooting in American History: What to Tell the Children

The Ferguson, Mo. Shooting in American History: What to Tell the Children

By Julian Hipkins III (Zinn Education Project) In light of the grand jury decision, we share this collection of teaching ideas and resources, originally published […]

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