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Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran
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Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran

Juan Cole

How the Ghost of Renee Nicole Good Haunts Trump’s Response to Iran’s Protests

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

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Iran regime: A Plato’s Republic thought experiment gone too far?

Iran regime: A Plato’s Republic thought experiment gone too far?

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Afghanistan
Taliban Getting Stronger, As US Public Support for Afghanistan War Collapses

Taliban Getting Stronger, As US Public Support for Afghanistan War Collapses

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is getting weaker over time, and the Taliban are getting stronger, according to Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for […]

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Environment
5000 Birds fall out of Sky in Arkansas

5000 Birds fall out of Sky in Arkansas

An environmental mystery: The blogosphere is abuzz about the mystery of thousands of birds falling out of the sky in Arkansas. Such things happen sometimes […]

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Iraq
Glaspie Memo Vindicates Her, Shows Saddam’s Thinking

Glaspie Memo Vindicates Her, Shows Saddam’s Thinking

Wikileaks has released the July 25, 1990 cable by US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie in which she reported her meeting with Saddam Hussein over […]

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Egypt
Christian Crowds Protest Violently in Egypt

Christian Crowds Protest Violently in Egypt

Crowds of Christian youth protested in the hundreds in Alexandria and Cairo on Sunday. The protesters in Alexandria were prevented by riot police from reaching […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has summarized an Israeli military briefing by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi of a US congressional delegation a little […]

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al-Qaeda
Mubarak: We will Cut off the Head of the Snake;  Al-Azhar: This was an Attack on all Egyptians

Mubarak: We will Cut off the Head of the Snake; Al-Azhar: This was an Attack on all Egyptians

The semi-official Egyptian newspaper, al-Ahram, reports that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak asserted in a speech to the nation on Saturday that a foreign hand was […]

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Egypt
Top Ten Middle East Challenges for U.S. Policy, 2011

Top Ten Middle East Challenges for U.S. Policy, 2011

10. The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives will attempt to stampede Obama into keeping troops in Iraq, delaying any withdrawals from Afghanistan, […]

Juan Cole

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Map of United Arab Emirates

Map of United Arab Emirates

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New Year in Dubai

New Year in Dubai

New Year in Dubai

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