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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace
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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

The deal offered by the United States is simple and straight forward, submit to all American demands or be obliterated

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

02/23/2026 By The Conversation

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

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Sunni Party to Boycott Iraq Elections

Sunni Party to Boycott Iraq Elections

The LAT reports that the National Dialogue Front, a secular party led by Salih Mutlak, is calling for a boycott of the March 7 parliamentary […]

Juan Cole

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Top Russian General: An American Attack on Iran would lead to US Collapse; Wants to Block It; Kremlin Rejects Crippling Sanctions

Top Russian General: An American Attack on Iran would lead to US Collapse; Wants to Block It; Kremlin Rejects Crippling Sanctions

It appears that, the International Atomic Energy Agency is at least allowing for the possibility that documents allegedly found on a laptop some years ago […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei Again Decries Nukes as Illegal in Islamic Law

Khamenei Again Decries Nukes as Illegal in Islamic Law

The USG Open Source Center monitored Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s speech at the christening of an Iranian destroyer, Jamaran, on Iranian official radio, in which […]

Juan Cole

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Hypocrisy over IRS Bomber

Hypocrisy over IRS Bomber

If you hate the US government for collecting taxes from you and are willing to fly a plane into a Federal building, you just might […]

Juan Cole

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Haqqani Son Killed in Drone Attack; 2 Taliban Leaders Captured; 4 NATO Troops KIA in Marjah

Haqqani Son Killed in Drone Attack; 2 Taliban Leaders Captured; 4 NATO Troops KIA in Marjah

A US drone strike on N. Waziristan has allegedly killed Muhammad Haqqani, a son of guerrilla leader Jalaluddin Haqqani. The Haqqani network is considered particularly […]

Juan Cole

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The Decline of the Israeli Right and the Increasing Desperation of the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Charge

The Decline of the Israeli Right and the Increasing Desperation of the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Charge

The great divide between liberal Jewish Americans and the Israeli Right has lurked as an issue since the Likud Party first challenged Labor dominance in […]

Juan Cole

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Corporate Media Hype Tea Partiers Way beyond their Actual Significance

Corporate Media Hype Tea Partiers Way beyond their Actual Significance

Percentage of Americans who favor socialism: 20 Percentage of Americans involved in Tea Party Movement: 11 (Support for Tea Party is also about 12%). Number […]

Juan Cole

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US Intelligence Led to Baradar Capture; Marjah Campaign Slows in Face of Snipers, IEDs

US Intelligence Led to Baradar Capture; Marjah Campaign Slows in Face of Snipers, IEDs

As the Marjah campaign continued in Afghanistan, the LAT reports that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in large part because of […]

Juan Cole

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OSC: Afghan Minority Parties Unenthusiastic About Reconciliation with Taliban

OSC: Afghan Minority Parties Unenthusiastic About Reconciliation with Taliban

The USG Open Source Center analyzes the stances of the parties representing the Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazara Shiite minorities in Afghanistan and finds that they […]

Juan Cole

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