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Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?
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Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers – Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities

The Controversial Death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The Controversial Death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

03/04/2026 By The Conversation

Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America

Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America

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"Off the Charts":  Deadliest Storm in History Kills 1200, Displaces Millions in Philippines

“Off the Charts”: Deadliest Storm in History Kills 1200, Displaces Millions in Philippines

ABC News reports on Super-Typhoon Haiyan, which is now estimated to have killed at least 1200 in the Philippines, and which forced millions from their […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
US loses UNESCO Voting Rights: How Kow-Towing to Israeli Policy Weakens America

US loses UNESCO Voting Rights: How Kow-Towing to Israeli Policy Weakens America

President Obama called America “the greatest country in the world” on Friday, but the same day the US lost basic voting rights on the United […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Top Reasons Israel’s Likud Really Opposes an Iran Nuclear Deal

Top Reasons Israel’s Likud Really Opposes an Iran Nuclear Deal

Rightwing Israeli politicians like Binyamin Netanyahu are squawking furiously about the prospect that Sec. of State John Kerry might reach an agreement with Iran over […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Arts of the Arab Uprisings at the Arab-American Museum, Dearborn

Arts of the Arab Uprisings at the Arab-American Museum, Dearborn

The Arab-American Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, has mounted an exhibition on the Arts of the Arab Uprisings. It includes art, photography and video by street […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
How American Troops in Afghanistan became Unreal (Jones)

How American Troops in Afghanistan became Unreal (Jones)

Ann Jones writes at Tomdispath.com The last time I saw American soldiers in Afghanistan, they were silent. Knocked out by gunfire and explosions that left […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Record High Warming Gases in Atmosphere: Earth Losing Race Against Time (McCauley)

Record High Warming Gases in Atmosphere: Earth Losing Race Against Time (McCauley)

Lauren McCauley writes at Commondreams.org The amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere reached a record high in 2012, according to the World Meteorological […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
It wasn’t Arafat who was Assassinated but the Palestinian People

It wasn’t Arafat who was Assassinated but the Palestinian People

Aljazeera America has the exclusive on the Swiss scientists’ findings that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with polonium, after the fashion of Russian dissident […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Ms. Marvel and the Rise of the Muslim Superhero in America

Ms. Marvel and the Rise of the Muslim Superhero in America

Umberto Eco argued that Superman, from the character’s inception in the 1940s through about 1970, was a politically conservative figure. The stories were about protecting […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Dear Press: Stop Enthusing About Habitable Planets until People like Va.'s Cuccinelli Stop Destroying this One

Dear Press: Stop Enthusing About Habitable Planets until People like Va.’s Cuccinelli Stop Destroying this One

The issue of habitable planets, earth’s own disastrous climate change, and Virginia politics don’t intersect every day. But today they do, and that does not […]

Juan Cole

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