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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?
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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?

Farhang Jahanpour

One hospital in Tehran has received more than 70 corpses of demonstrators shot in the head and chest by security guards

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

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Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

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The Decline and Fall of the Turkish Model

The Decline and Fall of the Turkish Model

(By Erdağ Göknar for IslamiCommentary) Erdağ Göknar Most observers agree that Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has mishandled the current political crisis. The […]

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Climate Change
Darkening of Melting Arctic Amplifying Global Warming from CO2

Darkening of Melting Arctic Amplifying Global Warming from CO2

(By Jacob Chamberlain) One of nature's key defenses against global warming—the reflection of the sun's rays away from Earth by Arctic sea ice—has fallen victim […]

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Crime
4 Darknesses:  Internet being Manipulated, Deceived by Western Intel Trolls

4 Darknesses: Internet being Manipulated, Deceived by Western Intel Trolls

(By Juan Cole) Researchers on online behavior have shown that internet trolls (people who use insincere techniques to disrupt conversations) really are psychopaths, marked by […]

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Saudis 'seek Pakistani arms for Syrian rebels'

Saudis 'seek Pakistani arms for Syrian rebels'

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is in talks with Pakistan to provide anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets to Syrian rebels to try to tip the balance in the […]

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Turkey: Legislating the End of Democracy - 3 Laws for One-Party Rule

Turkey: Legislating the End of Democracy – 3 Laws for One-Party Rule

(By Ola Claësson) The government’s response to the Gezi protests in June 2013 and its obstruction of a graft probe targeting ministers in December the […]

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Africa
A World built on Slavery

A World built on Slavery

(By Greg Grandin) Many in the United States were outraged by the remarks of conservative evangelical preacher Pat Robertson, who blamed Haiti’s catastrophic 2010 earthquake […]

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Economy
The Promise and Existential Risks of Nanotechnology

The Promise and Existential Risks of Nanotechnology

Video by Dr. Kim Solez on Existential Risks [of Nanotechnology] prepared for the Lifeboat Foundation The Bill Joy video excerpt from the year 2000 in […]

Juan Cole

Eastern Europe
Not to Reason Why:  A New Crimean "War"?

Not to Reason Why: A New Crimean “War”?

(Juan Cole) The Russian-speaking population of the Crimean Peninsula in the Ukraine is upset by the popular movement in the west of the country that […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Not only Big Brother but Big Corporation is Tracking you Online Too

Not only Big Brother but Big Corporation is Tracking you Online Too

(Via Techdirt) What Happens When You Marry The NSA’s Surveillance Database With Amazon’s Personalized Marketing? (via Techdirt) By now, most people who shop online are […]

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