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Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?
Climate Crisis

Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?

Juan Cole

Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian landed himself in hot water by broaching evacuating Iran’s capital, Tehran

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The State of Palestine Must Exist: An Interview With Gershon Baskin

The State of Palestine Must Exist: An Interview With Gershon Baskin

11/09/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

One Month into Gaza Ceasefire, what does Palestinians’ Future look like?

One Month into Gaza Ceasefire, what does Palestinians’ Future look like?

11/09/2025 By Paul Rogers

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (8)

Omar Khayyam (8)

A lover all his life is frantic and intoxicated– crazy, distracted and disgraced. When we’re sober, everything annoys us; but when we’re drunk, whatever will […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria: Crimes Against Humanity in Homs

Syria: Crimes Against Humanity in Homs

The Telegraph (UK) has put the word “genocide” in its headline as a description of what has been going on in Syria. On Wednesday morning, […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Chinese Envoy:  Veto aimed at Protecting Syria from Civil War

Chinese Envoy: Veto aimed at Protecting Syria from Civil War

The USG Open Source Center translates from the Chinese an article that includes an explanation of China’s veto of a new UN Security Council resolution […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Why the Energy-Industrial Elite Has It In for the Planet

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Why the Energy-Industrial Elite Has It In for the Planet

If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet –…

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam 16

Omar Khayyam 16

Before time ever was, You fashioned the divine handiwork of heaven and hell– out of compassion and rage. Your banquet is in heaven, and I […]

Juan Cole

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Hoekstra Blames Everyone but Himself for the Deficits He Voted for

Hoekstra Blames Everyone but Himself for the Deficits He Voted for

It is hard to decide what is the most despicable thing about senatorial Republican hopeful Pete Hoekstra’s Superbowl ad attacking rival Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door

Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning…

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
How an Israeli Strike on Iran could radically weaken Israel

How an Israeli Strike on Iran could radically weaken Israel

Some colleagues on an email list got me thinking about the worst case scenario of an Israeli air strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, so […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Cole Spanish interviews on Arab Spring in Costa Rica Press

Cole Spanish interviews on Arab Spring in Costa Rica Press

My Spanish-speaking readers will enjoy these links to interviews about the Arab Spring I did last week in San Jose, Costa Rica, with the press […]

Juan Cole

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