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Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg would Crash the World Economy
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Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg would Crash the World Economy

Juan Cole

Any attack on its oil and energy infrastructure will lead to retaliatory strikes targeting facilities in the region owned by U.S. oil companies

The Israel-US and Iran War: A Geostrategic Transformation

The Israel-US and Iran War: A Geostrategic Transformation

03/14/2026 By Middle East Monitor

Iran: US Girls’ School Attack Findings Show Need for Reform, Accountability (HRW)

Iran: US Girls’ School Attack Findings Show Need for Reform, Accountability (HRW)

03/14/2026 By Human Rights Watch

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The Middle East warmly welcomes Iran Deal, sees it as Step toward Denuclearizing Israel

The Middle East warmly welcomes Iran Deal, sees it as Step toward Denuclearizing Israel

Israel and Saudi Arabia have loomed large in reporting about the regional reaction to the UN Security Council plus Germany’s preliminary deal with Iran as […]

Juan Cole

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Does the Road to Mideast Peace Run through Tehran?

Does the Road to Mideast Peace Run through Tehran?

The diplomatic breakthrough at Geneva is still only a down payment on a much bigger deal, and it is early to begin speaking of realignments […]

Juan Cole

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Today’s America is the Real Hunger Games: Why aren’t we Terrified? (Engelhardt)

Today’s America is the Real Hunger Games: Why aren’t we Terrified? (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: . . . gazillions of movie viewers have seen … films with the usual array of sharks, dinosaurs, anacondas, axe […]

Juan Cole

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US-Iran War Averted by Agreement to Negotiate on Nuclear Enrichment

US-Iran War Averted by Agreement to Negotiate on Nuclear Enrichment

The decade-long Neoconservative plot to take the United States to war against Iran appears to have been foiled. In response for a loosening of sanctions, […]

Juan Cole

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Tim Berners-Lee Warns "Tide of Surveillance and Censorship" threatens Democracy

Tim Berners-Lee Warns “Tide of Surveillance and Censorship” threatens Democracy

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1990, is disturbed at the revelations of the degree of surveillance pursued by governments of ordinary […]

Juan Cole

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Another Reason to Divest: Global outrage at dirty Coal threatens Investors' Profits

Another Reason to Divest: Global outrage at dirty Coal threatens Investors’ Profits

The divestment movement on US college campuses against Big Carbon (coal, oil and gas) signals more than just the arrival of a new, determined and […]

Juan Cole

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Does Syria Stalemate Benefit Baath Regime?

Does Syria Stalemate Benefit Baath Regime?

Although it is hard to know what is going on in Syria on the ground, it does seem clear that the momentum is with the […]

Juan Cole

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CIA drone strikes Militant Seminary in Pakistan Proper, Killing 6 (Ross)

CIA drone strikes Militant Seminary in Pakistan Proper, Killing 6 (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism A CIA drone strike hit a religious school in Hangu, Pakistan [on Thursday], killing at […]

Juan Cole

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How We the People can Stop Climate Change through Disinvestment (Gitlin)

How We the People can Stop Climate Change through Disinvestment (Gitlin)

Todd Gitlin writes at Tomdispatch.com: Apocalyptic climate change is upon us.  For shorthand, let’s call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic […]

Juan Cole

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