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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade
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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Chinese policy and security circles interpret the tariff threat less as an attempt to alter Iran’s behavior than as a signal to third parties

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

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Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

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More Nuclear Scaremongering about Iran from Clinton; Neocons Quake at Ahmadinejad threat to make . . . gasp . . . Medical Isotopes

More Nuclear Scaremongering about Iran from Clinton; Neocons Quake at Ahmadinejad threat to make . . . gasp . . . Medical Isotopes

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engaged in some fearmongering on Iran on Sunday on Candy Crowley’s CNN magazine show, State of the Union. Here is […]

Juan Cole

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Saying ‘Constitution’ while meaning ‘Lawlessness’: Palin attacks Obama

Saying ‘Constitution’ while meaning ‘Lawlessness’: Palin attacks Obama

Sarah Palin’s turn before the teabaggers was an exercise in emptying the US Constitution of meaning while seeming to exalt it. She praised US military […]

Juan Cole

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Thousands Flee Marja Area as NATO Prepares Campaign; Anti-American Rally in Kapisa

Thousands Flee Marja Area as NATO Prepares Campaign; Anti-American Rally in Kapisa

Agence France Presse reports that thousands of Afghans are fleeing an anticipated NATO/Afghan (mainly British) campaign against the Taliban stronghold of Marja, a city of […]

Juan Cole

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Undoing Lex Luthor

Undoing Lex Luthor

The red increase in job loss is the climax of Republican White House control. The blue decrease in job loss is Obama and the Democrats. […]

Juan Cole

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Reading cuts stress levels by 68%

Reading cuts stress levels by 68% | Health news | Marie Claire Well now we’ve solved the difference in approach to the world of Barack […]

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40-Day Mourning Sessions targeted by Sunni Radicals in Karbala, Karachi

40-Day Mourning Sessions targeted by Sunni Radicals in Karbala, Karachi

The 40th day mourning ceremonies after the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad) in 680 CE was marred […]

Juan Cole

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Informed Comment Poll: Should US Troops be in Pakistan?

Informed Comment Poll: Should US Troops be in Pakistan?

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Michael Schwartz, Will Iraq’s Oil Ever Flow? | TomDispatch

Michael Schwartz, Will Iraq’s Oil Ever Flow? | TomDispatch

Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Will Iraq's Oil Ever Flow? | TomDispatch Sociologist Michael Schwartz, a sharp Iraq-watcher and author of a provocative book on the Iraq […]

Juan Cole

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Al-Maliki Gov't Appeals Reinstatement of Candidates, Calls Special Session of Parliament

Al-Maliki Gov’t Appeals Reinstatement of Candidates, Calls Special Session of Parliament

Iraqi politics and the conduct of the March 7 elections has been thrown into turmoil by the reversal on Wednesday by a judicial appeals panel […]

Juan Cole

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