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A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran
Dissent

A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran

Fariba Amini

The families had to search for the bodies of their loved ones amongst the many covered coffins in the many morgues or hospitals

Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Escalation In NE Kurdish Region

Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Escalation In NE Kurdish Region

01/26/2026 By Human Rights Watch

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

01/26/2026 By Tomdispatch

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Economy
This Land is their Land, it isn't Your Land: Growing inequality in a Declining Empire

This Land is their Land, it isn’t Your Land: Growing inequality in a Declining Empire

(By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch.com) As America’s new economy starts to look more like the old economy of the Great Depression, the divide between […]

Juan Cole

Bush
Top 10 Attacks on US Embassies in Republican Administrations that Lindsey Graham doesn't Care about

Top 10 Attacks on US Embassies in Republican Administrations that Lindsey Graham doesn’t Care about

(By Juan Cole) The Republicans in Congress keep beating the dead horse of Benghazi. Now they have sprung a briefing memo for Susan Rice, based […]

Juan Cole

Rick Jacobs Threatens to Pull URJ Out of Presidents Conference After J Street Fiasco

Rick Jacobs Threatens to Pull URJ Out of Presidents Conference After J Street Fiasco

Reform Movement leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs has signaled that the Union of Reform Judaism could consider dropping out of the Conference of Presidents in response […]

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Crime
Why Oklahoma's Botched Execution is an Argument for ending Death Penalty

Why Oklahoma’s Botched Execution is an Argument for ending Death Penalty

Yet more evidence that the death penalty is cruel and inhumane arrived today at 8:00PM from the state of Oklahoma. Charles Warner, convicted of raping and murdering an 11-month-old girl, found his execution stayed today after the attempted execution…

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The PLO-Hamas Unity Agreement: an Opportunity for the United States and Israel

The PLO-Hamas Unity Agreement: an Opportunity for the United States and Israel

(By Joel Migdal) The unity agreement announced last week between Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization drew swift, negative reactions from Israel, including suspending its […]

Juan Cole

media
On how the Death of Turkish Democracy this Year wasn't exactly Clickbait

On how the Death of Turkish Democracy this Year wasn’t exactly Clickbait

(By Ola Claësson) I can’t help being surprised of how little that has been reported in the foreign media about the development in Turkey after […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Fox censors ‘Scientific American’ editor on Climate Change because, Future

Fox censors ‘Scientific American’ editor on Climate Change because, Future

(By Scott Kaufman) ‘Scientific American’ editor: Fox censored my discussion of climate change as ‘future trend’ (via Raw Story ) Scientific American editor Michael Moyer […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq's first Post-American Elections by the Numbers

Iraq’s first Post-American Elections by the Numbers

(By Juan Cole) Iraqis went to the polls on Wednesday in the first national parliamentary elections since US troops pulled out of the country completely […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Egyptian Judges shock world again, condemning 683 Muslim Brothers to Death

Egyptian Judges shock world again, condemning 683 Muslim Brothers to Death

Egypt’s judiciary accused of being arm of repression (via AFP) A wave of mass sentences in Egypt, including hundreds sentenced to death this week after […]

Juan Cole

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