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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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Burned:  Valerie Plame Wilson's new  Roman a Clef on Dick Cheney's Great Betrayal

Burned: Valerie Plame Wilson’s new Roman a Clef on Dick Cheney’s Great Betrayal

Bloomberg “Valerie Plame Wilson, author and former CIA officer, discusses her new book entitled “Burned” and national security in the 21st century with Bloomberg’s Pimm […]

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Economy
Does Fox "News" cultivate Closed Minded "Right Wing Authoritarians"?

Does Fox “News” cultivate Closed Minded “Right Wing Authoritarians”?

TheLipTV “Is Fox News creating content that appeals to closed minded people of a “right wing authoritarian” mind state? That is the case being argued […]

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Militarization
'Thanks for your Service' = Silencing the Vets

‘Thanks for your Service’ = Silencing the Vets

By Rory Fanning via Tomdispatch.com Last week, in a quiet indie bookstore on the north side of Chicago, I saw the latest issue of Rolling […]

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Arab Spring
The Tunisian Achievement

The Tunisian Achievement

By Juan Cole Fears that the historic vote on Sunday in Tunisia might be marred by violence committed by the country’s tiny lunatic fringe were […]

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Apartheid
Protests after Israeli Troops kill American Teenager near Ramallah

Protests after Israeli Troops kill American Teenager near Ramallah

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager late Friday during clashes in Silwad village near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, […]

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Israel
The Ultra Orthodox vs. The Israeli Army: Israel's Other Religious War (VICE)

The Ultra Orthodox vs. The Israeli Army: Israel’s Other Religious War (VICE)

VICE News: “Since Israel’s inception, the Haredi — ultra-Orthodox adherents of Judaism —have been exempt from the country’s military conscription laws. But their growing population, […]

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Bush
For GOP who Question why Iraq didn't Want US Forces to Stay: "Blackwater Guards Guilty In 2007 Iraq Massacre"

For GOP who Question why Iraq didn’t Want US Forces to Stay: “Blackwater Guards Guilty In 2007 Iraq Massacre”

Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks: “Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an […]

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Coal
Top 5 Things More Americans will die of than Ebola this Year, including Guns

Top 5 Things More Americans will die of than Ebola this Year, including Guns

By Juan Cole The odd hysteria about ebola is being driven more by a media frenzy than the actual public health risks. Ebola is not […]

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Colonialism
WWI: Remembering how Europe Blockaded Lebanese Civilians & Killed 200,000 with Famine

WWI: Remembering how Europe Blockaded Lebanese Civilians & Killed 200,000 with Famine

BBC “Unknown to many, a third of the Lebanese population [then West Syria] died of famine and disease during World War One. BBC Arabic’s Carine […]

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