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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

01/12/2026 By Richard Drake

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

01/12/2026 By Rebecca Gordon

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Energy
Not Markets but the People are making the Green Energy Revolution

Not Markets but the People are making the Green Energy Revolution

The propaganda against the green energy revolution contains all the same predictable elements as the propaganda against anti-slavery movements or later against anti-tobacco findings. We […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Top 13 Surveillance Secrets the Gov’t Doesn’t want You to Know About (Quigley)

Top 13 Surveillance Secrets the Gov’t Doesn’t want You to Know About (Quigley)

Bill Quigley writes at Commondreams.org “We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted…the Patriot […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Obama’s Limited Options: Bombing Syria unlikely to be Effective

Obama’s Limited Options: Bombing Syria unlikely to be Effective

As pressure on President Obama to bomb Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons ramps up, it is worth revisiting parts of a post […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Does the World Care? 1 Mn Syrian Children Refugees & Aid Money Running Out

Does the World Care? 1 Mn Syrian Children Refugees & Aid Money Running Out

The Syrian conflict has produced a massive refugee problem, and it reached a new level of horror this week with news that the UN High […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
NSA abuses include Stalking ex-Girlfriends

NSA abuses include Stalking ex-Girlfriends

We have HUMINT, or human intelligence gathered from agents. We have SIGINT or signals intelligence. And now we have LOVEINT or NSA analysts occasionally reading […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Obama wants all the info in your Smart Phone without a Warrant (Lazare)

Obama wants all the info in your Smart Phone without a Warrant (Lazare)

Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams.org Amid ongoing controversy over NSA warrantless spying programs, another legal battle exposes the Obama administration’s willingness to steamroll civil liberties […]

Juan Cole

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Is the US Government the Managing Committee of the Pirate Banks?

Is the US Government the Managing Committee of the Pirate Banks?

Greg Palast at Vice exposes the way that Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and others in the Treasury Department conspired with JP Morgan and other pirate […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Must US Aid to Egypt be Cut Off? (Wang & Meyer)

Must US Aid to Egypt be Cut Off? (Wang & Meyer)

Marian Wang and Theodoric Meyer write at ProPublica Questions about the United States’ aid to Egypt have intensified in the wake of last month’s military […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Bradley Manning in a World of Cheneys, Hadithas, and NSA Domestic Surveillance

Bradley Manning in a World of Cheneys, Hadithas, and NSA Domestic Surveillance

The sentencing of Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison came because he leaked government documents, mostly with a low level of classification that probably […]

Juan Cole

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