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“Reviving old Desires:”  Saadi and Omar Khayyam  on Celebrating the New Year
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“Reviving old Desires:” Saadi and Omar Khayyam on Celebrating the New Year

Juan Cole

The dawn wind wafts the scent of the New Year / to friends’ delight and triumphant good cheer.

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

01/01/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

What “Loving-Kindness” Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year

What “Loving-Kindness” Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year

01/01/2026 By The Conversation

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Christianity
The Real Jesus was Bill O'Reilly's Worst Nightmare - Reza Aslan

The Real Jesus was Bill O’Reilly’s Worst Nightmare – Reza Aslan

Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) “The Jesus of history was the exact opposite of everything Fox News host Bill O’Reilly thinks, according to religious scholar […]

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Daesh/ ISIL calls for Terror attacks on Saudi Arabia

Daesh/ ISIL calls for Terror attacks on Saudi Arabia

By Juan Cole | — Daesh, the brutal terrorist group the US calls ISIL or ISIS, is calling for attacks in Saudi Arabia. A voice […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Stealth Drone Proliferation:  Iranians Reverse engineer captured US Spy Drone

Stealth Drone Proliferation: Iranians Reverse engineer captured US Spy Drone

Press TV: | “Iran has released a video showing the test flight of an Iranian-made version of the captured US RQ-170 spy drone. The stealth […]

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Apartheid
Starving Gazans of Protein:  Israeli Navy destroys Palestinian Fishing Boat

Starving Gazans of Protein: Israeli Navy destroys Palestinian Fishing Boat

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — | Israeli naval boats on Wednesday evening fired at and sank a Palestinian fishing boat in the sea off the coast […]

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Iran
Tehran says it has responded to some letters sent by President Obama

Tehran says it has responded to some letters sent by President Obama

Press TV | “A senior Iranian official says Tehran has responded to some of the letters sent by US President Barack Obama. The secretary of […]

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Top 5 Disasters If GOP Senate derails Iran talks

Top 5 Disasters If GOP Senate derails Iran talks

By Juan Cole | The Republican Party is already conniving at ways to derail the US-Iran negotiations over Tehran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program. When they […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
Rehab for Empire Addiction:  Uncle Sam on the Couch

Rehab for Empire Addiction: Uncle Sam on the Couch

By Tom Engelhardt (Tomdispatch.com) [What follows is a transcript of a therapy session between the American Empire and a psychiatrist whose name we at TomDispatch have agreed not to […]

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Energy
20 Richest Countries Subsidize Oil & Gas Exploration as much as Whole World Subsidizes Green Energy

20 Richest Countries Subsidize Oil & Gas Exploration as much as Whole World Subsidizes Green Energy

Analysis by Shelagh Whitley (IPS) LONDON, Nov 11 2014 (IPS) – Just a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave its starkest […]

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Israel
Israel Econ. Minister's West Bank annexation plan a wake up call for the West

Israel Econ. Minister’s West Bank annexation plan a wake up call for the West

By John V. Whitbeck (Ma’an News Agency) Naftali Bennett, Israel’s Minister of the Economy and leader of the Jewish Home Party, a major component of […]

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