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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran
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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran

Mohammad Eslami

Netanyahu traveled to Florida for an extended meeting with President Donald Trump, and the conversation focused heavily on Iran

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“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

12/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

12/31/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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Displaced and Refugees
Syrian Refugees Between a Legal Rock and a Hard Place in Lebanon

Syrian Refugees Between a Legal Rock and a Hard Place in Lebanon

By Oriol Andrés Gallart | — BEIRUT, Nov 21 2014 (IPS) – Staring at the floor, Hassan, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee from Idlib in northwestern […]

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Israel and Mississippi: Racist Plans for 2nd Class Citizens and Religious Legislation

Israel and Mississippi: Racist Plans for 2nd Class Citizens and Religious Legislation

By Juan Cole | — The Guardian reports that “A controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people has been […]

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Economy
How Public Power can get Big Money out of Politics & Defeat Plutocrats

How Public Power can get Big Money out of Politics & Defeat Plutocrats

Bill Moyers | — Bill Moyers: “How Public Power Can Defeat Plutocrats” via BillMoyers.com “Government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats with deep […]

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Iran
Will GOP Congress block an Obama Iran Nuclear Deal?

Will GOP Congress block an Obama Iran Nuclear Deal?

By Carl Schreck and Luke Johnson (RFE/RL) | —- WASHINGTON — With the deadline for an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program looming, the administration of […]

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Islam
Jerusalem: where religion divides but lives are entwined

Jerusalem: where religion divides but lives are entwined

By Wendy Pullan, University of Cambridge (The Conversation) The latest violent episode between Palestinians and Israelis has prompted Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to assert […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Snowden Docs.:  UK Telecom Conspired to Turn over millions of our Emails to British Intelligence

Snowden Docs.: UK Telecom Conspired to Turn over millions of our Emails to British Intelligence

Channel 4 News | — “An unprecedented grab of personal data: this programme reveals that a communications firm not only handed over its own information […]

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Barack Obama
Taiwan Animators wonder if anyone paid attention to Obama Immigration Speech

Taiwan Animators wonder if anyone paid attention to Obama Immigration Speech

Tomo News: Tomo News: “Obama announces immigration reform, America forgets to watch”

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Iraq:  Daesh/ISIL executes 26 Sunni Tribesmen in Campaign to Take Ramadi

Iraq: Daesh/ISIL executes 26 Sunni Tribesmen in Campaign to Take Ramadi

By Juan Cole: Daesh (the Arabic acronym for ISIS or ISIL) has mounted a major offensive in a bid to take Ramadi, the capital of […]

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Iran
"Iran too big a fish for Israel to fry" - Former IAEA Head Hans Blix on Nuclear Talks

“Iran too big a fish for Israel to fry” – Former IAEA Head Hans Blix on Nuclear Talks

RT | — “The latest negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program are entering their final days – the deadline set for November 24. Officials say there […]

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