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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
Donald Trump

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

Dan Steinbock

The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

03/02/2026 By Mike Nickerson

Trumped!  The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

03/02/2026 By Tom Engelhardt

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Clown Capitol (Jamiol Cartoon)

Clown Capitol (Jamiol Cartoon)

courtesy Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

Iran
Top Ten Ways the US and Iran could avoid a Catastrophic War

Top Ten Ways the US and Iran could avoid a Catastrophic War

On Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, presented his government’s proposals for ending the international stand-off over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. Iran maintains that […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Celebrating Dirty Gas & Oil is Our Planet’s Funeral   (Klare)

Celebrating Dirty Gas & Oil is Our Planet’s Funeral (Klare)

Michael T. Klare writes at Tomdispatch.com For years, energy analysts had been anticipating an imminent decline in global oil supplies.  Suddenly, they’re singing a new […]

Juan Cole

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Now the NSA has your Little Black Book

Now the NSA has your Little Black Book

Before the internet, we used to keep the names and telephone numbers of our friends and acquaintances in a little address book. Young people who […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Rep. Van Hollen on House Rule Change on Shutdown Vote: "Democracy has been Suspended!"

Rep. Van Hollen on House Rule Change on Shutdown Vote: “Democracy has been Suspended!”

Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-Md) went viral in a YouTube video he released of his parliamentary inquiries on a change in House rules that forbade […]

Juan Cole

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Arms Industries have Washington lift Restrictions on Weapons Exports (Currier)

Arms Industries have Washington lift Restrictions on Weapons Exports (Currier)

Cora Currier writes for ProPublica The United States is loosening controls over military exports, in a shift that former U.S. officials and human rights advocates […]

Juan Cole

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Israelis again impose Collective punishment on Palestinians of Gaza

Israelis again impose Collective punishment on Palestinians of Gaza

On finding a tunnel from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the Israeli government has again blockaded the strip from receiving shipments of basic building materials.. […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Club Dead: EU immigration laws turning Mediterranean into Graveyard- Malta PM

Club Dead: EU immigration laws turning Mediterranean into Graveyard- Malta PM

Malta’s prime minister Joseph Muscat said Saturday that the European Union’s inaction on immigration reform is turning the Mediterranean into a graveyard. UPI quotes him […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Snowden: Federal Spying makes us Less Secure

Snowden: Federal Spying makes us Less Secure

Supporters of massive National Security Agency domestic and international electronic surveillance of millions of innocent civilians justify it on the grounds that it makes us […]

Juan Cole

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