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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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Israel/ Palestine
Is a Third Palestinian Uprising on its Way?

Is a Third Palestinian Uprising on its Way?

(By Ruthie Blum) On December 25, Ali Jarbawi published his blockbuster Op-Ed “The Coming Intifada” with The New York Times. ”We Palestinians are living through […]

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art and photography
Street Kebab Chef in Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

Street Kebab Chef in Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

From M. E. Hume-Griffith and A. Hume, Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman’s Eight Years’ Residence Amongst the […]

Juan Cole

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Egyptian Military Junta Jumps the Shark, Interrogates Islamist Muppet

Egyptian Military Junta Jumps the Shark, Interrogates Islamist Muppet

(By Juan Cole) When the venerable al-Ahram newspaper, then under the control of the government of Hosni Mubarak, published the allegation during the 2011 revolution […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Solar Ascendancy: Minnesota Court Ruling for Solar over Gas a Harbinger of Things to Come

Solar Ascendancy: Minnesota Court Ruling for Solar over Gas a Harbinger of Things to Come

(By Juan Cole) Minnesota Judge Eric Lipman found that solar is a better deal than natural gas for Xcel Energy, permitting Geronimo Energy to construct […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Apple: We didn't help NSA put the Dropoutjeep Backdoor in our iPhones

Apple: We didn’t help NSA put the Dropoutjeep Backdoor in our iPhones

(By Jon Queally) Apple, the company giant behind the iconic iPhone, declared on Monday that is has never assisted the NSA in its efforts to […]

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Turkey
Turkey's Secretive Gulen Movement Challenges its Prime Minister as Religious Right Splits

Turkey’s Secretive Gulen Movement Challenges its Prime Minister as Religious Right Splits

(By Alexander Christie-Miller) The Gulen movement: a self-exiled imam challenges Turkey’s Erdogan (via The Christian Science Monitor) The man some see as the architect of […]

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India
Tagore's "The New Year" (Poem of the Day)

Tagore’s “The New Year” (Poem of the Day)

(By Rabindranath Tagore) The New Year LIKE FRUIT, shaken free by an impatient wind from the veils of its mother flower, thou comest, New Year, […]

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Bahrain
America's Foreign Policy Challenges in the Middle East, 2014

America’s Foreign Policy Challenges in the Middle East, 2014

Those who suggest that the United States as a superpower is weaker in the Middle East today than nine years ago overestimate the impact on […]

Juan Cole

Turkey hopeful of ties with EU during Greek presidency

Turkey hopeful of ties with EU during Greek presidency

The Turkish government believes that ties with the EU could be further boosted during the rotating presidency of Greece and Italy in 2014

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