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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

Dahiyeh: the Beirut Suburb at the Heart of a Deadly Israeli Military Doctrine

Dahiyeh: the Beirut Suburb at the Heart of a Deadly Israeli Military Doctrine

03/15/2026 By The Conversation

As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media averts its Gaze

As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media averts its Gaze

03/15/2026 By Truthdig

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Sen. Wyden Warned us in 2011 that the Government was Running wild on Surveillance (Video)

Sen. Wyden Warned us in 2011 that the Government was Running wild on Surveillance (Video)

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) warned two years ago that when the US public discovered how the Patriot Act is actually interpreted by the FBI and […]

Juan Cole

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"I am Bradley Manning" Celebrity Support Video (Leaked Teaser)

“I am Bradley Manning” Celebrity Support Video (Leaked Teaser)

“I am Bradley Manning” [Leaked teaser] : for celebrity support video.

Juan Cole

CIA
PRISM: The US Government is mad at Bradley Manning for doing to it what it is Doing to All of us

PRISM: The US Government is mad at Bradley Manning for doing to it what it is Doing to All of us

Bradley Manning, who spilled the beans on the US blowing away of unarmed Iraqi journalists and overlooking war crimes by the US military and allied […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Turkey: Erdogan’s Blindness to People Power will Diminish Him (IslamiCommentary)

Turkey: Erdogan’s Blindness to People Power will Diminish Him (IslamiCommentary)

Julie Poucher Harbin, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary, interviews two scholars on Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan: A small demonstration against bulldozing a park in Turkey escalated into […]

Juan Cole

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Fresh US covert Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen (Serle and Woods)

Fresh US covert Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen (Serle and Woods)

Excerpted from a report by Jack Serle and Chris Woods for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Pakistan The only drone strike reported to hit Pakistan […]

Juan Cole

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NSA-Verizon Surveillance: Welcome to the United States of Total Information Awareness

NSA-Verizon Surveillance: Welcome to the United States of Total Information Awareness

It turns out that the National Security Agency demanded and got Verizon phone records of all US telephone calls, mobile and otherwise, within the US […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Obama pledged investigation of Alleged Taliban Prisoner Massacre by US-Backed Afghan Warlords; Where is it? (Currier)

Obama pledged investigation of Alleged Taliban Prisoner Massacre by US-Backed Afghan Warlords; Where is it? (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica In his first year in office, President Barack Obama pledged to “collect the facts” on the death of hundreds, possibly […]

Juan Cole

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Bradley Manning Trial aimed at Silencing Whistleblowers?  (Democracy Now!)

Bradley Manning Trial aimed at Silencing Whistleblowers? (Democracy Now!)

Democracy Now! considers the Bradley Manning trial in the context of attempts to intimidate and punish government whistle blowers. That the world general reading public […]

Juan Cole

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Speaking of Bad Storms (editorial cartoon on GOP by Paul Jamiol)

Speaking of Bad Storms (editorial cartoon on GOP by Paul Jamiol)

by Paul Jamiol courtesy Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

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