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Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts
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Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts

Mohammad Eslami

Political slogans grew sharper, and in some places the protests shifted from economic dissent to open calls for regime change.

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

Gaza: Six Reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging Conflict in the Middle East

01/10/2026 By Ramzy Baroud

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

Electric car Registrations in Germany rise by 43% in 2025, despite end of Subsidies

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Jim Carrey:  Fox 'News' is "A media colostomy bag... a public health issue" (Video)

Jim Carrey: Fox ‘News’ is “A media colostomy bag… a public health issue” (Video)

Comedian Jim Carrey has hit back at Fox Cable News for its campaign of defamation in the wake of his release of a video parodying […]

Juan Cole

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Why this and not that?  America’s topsy turvy priorities

Why this and not that? America’s topsy turvy priorities

Why this and not that? I don’t understand my own country much of the time. For instance, in his first major public speech after resigning […]

Juan Cole

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Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)

Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)

Ira Chernus writes at Tomdispatch.com Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt’s War on Satire:  Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart

Egypt’s War on Satire: Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart

I have long held that the worst thing about religious fundamentalism is that it is humorless. And, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is proving me right. […]

Juan Cole

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As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)

As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)

Recycled WMD charges: From Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

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How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)

How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)

Tom Giesen writes in a guest column at Informed Comment The option to avoid 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) of global warming – our […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes:  Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim

Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes: Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim

Pope Francis on Maundy Thursday declined to address enormous crowds. Instead he went to a prison to emulate Jesus’s act of humility before his crucifixion […]

Juan Cole

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Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Yet again, researchers have found that there is no link between vaccines and autism. It is a myth, a hysteria, and a dangerous one, since […]

Juan Cole

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Carter: Guinea Worm parasite on verge of being wiped out (Cenk Uygur)

Carter: Guinea Worm parasite on verge of being wiped out (Cenk Uygur)

Cenk Uygur interviews former president Jimmy Carter concerning his imminent complete eradication of the deadly guinea worm: This extremely impressive achievement of Carter and his […]

Juan Cole

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