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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

You Deserve Better, Iran

You Deserve Better, Iran

03/03/2026 By contributors

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

03/03/2026 By Norman Solomon

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Why Bill O'Reilly is Wrong about Minorities 'Wanting Things" & the Election

Why Bill O’Reilly is Wrong about Minorities ‘Wanting Things” & the Election

Bill O’Reilly set the frame for an “angry white male” understanding of the bath Mitt Romney took at the polls Tuesday night, even before it […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama

Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama

President Obama’s reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has […]

Juan Cole

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Combining Wind Power And Electric Vehicles In Denmark (Video)

Combining Wind Power And Electric Vehicles In Denmark (Video)

On one of Denmark’s islands, locals are running their electric cars in some part off wind energy. This kind of arrangement is the only viable […]

Juan Cole

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Four Middle East crises will face the next President Immediately

Four Middle East crises will face the next President Immediately

American politics is mainly about domestic issues, and the presidential election season has caused a sort of black out of international news on US networks […]

Juan Cole

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Our way-too-Supersized Elections:  Engelhardt on BillMoyers.com (Video)

Our way-too-Supersized Elections: Engelhardt on BillMoyers.com (Video)

From BillMoyers.com: “Tom Engelhardt on Supersized Politics in the 2012 Election November 5, 2012 If we’ve learned anything from the 2012 race, it’s that American […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Coming Disasters: Romney’s America 2016

Top Ten Coming Disasters: Romney’s America 2016

What will the United States look like in 2016 if Mitt Romney wins? While predicting the future is of course impossible, actually my experience is […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Romney: “Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of Iran War” (Goulka)

Romney: “Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of Iran War” (Goulka)

Jeremiah Goulka writes at Tomdispatch: The Dogs of War Are Barking: Mitt Romney’s Team Wants to Let ‘Em Loose in Iran It’s the consensus among […]

Juan Cole

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Romney-Ryan: The Real Death Panel (Jamiol Cartoon)

Romney-Ryan: The Real Death Panel (Jamiol Cartoon)

By Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

Drones

How US Drone Assassinations all Began (Woods)

Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) usually gets all the credit for the first US drone targeted […]

Juan Cole

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