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All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?
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All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?

Juan Cole

At a 2.7º C. increase, northern Australian areas such as Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland will become uninhabitable by the end of the century

US military Action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global Nuclear Cascade

US military Action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global Nuclear Cascade

01/31/2026 By The Conversation

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

01/31/2026 By Waging Nonviolence

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Massing On Iraq Press Coverage Way In

Massing On Iraq Press Coverage Way In

Massing on Iraq Press Coverage The way in which so much of the US press neglected to exercise their faculties of critical reasoning in the […]

Juan Cole

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Turkish Role Neighboring Turks Take

Turkish Role Neighboring Turks Take

Turkish Role Neighboring Turks take a dim view of the “Iraqi resistance” in the Sunni Arab heartland of Iraq, given that it has slaughtered 64 […]

Juan Cole

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Vote Set For January 30 Interim

Vote Set For January 30 Interim

Vote Set for January 30 The interim government of Iyad Allawi set the elections for Jan. 30, on Sunday. Even as the announcement was made, […]

Juan Cole

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Large Protests Against Fallujah

Large Protests Against Fallujah

Large Protests Against Fallujah Campaign, Mosque Killing US Hated From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli In Baghdad itself, AP’s Hamza Hendawi […]

Juan Cole

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Fallujah Operation Does Not Bring

Fallujah Operation Does Not Bring

Fallujah Operation Does not Bring Peace Wire services report dozens of violent deaths in Iraq on Saturday. Guerrillas attacked a police station in Baghdad, killing […]

Juan Cole

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Engagement Of Rules Rod Nordland And

Engagement Of Rules Rod Nordland And

Engagement of the Rules Rod Nordland and Babak Dehghanpisheh of Newsweek believe that the US military simply cannot win hearts and minds in Iraq. That’s […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi National Guards Us Raid Mosque

Iraqi National Guards Us Raid Mosque

Iraqi National Guards, US, Raid Mosque of Abu Hanifa, Kill 2 Iraqi security forces backed up by US troops raided the famed mosque of Abu […]

Juan Cole

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Will Osamah Bin Laden Benefit From

Will Osamah Bin Laden Benefit From

Will Osamah Bin Laden Benefit from Arafat’s Death? My opinion piece on the implications of Arafat’s passing for al-Qaeda has appeared at Newsday. Excerpt: “Arafat’s […]

Juan Cole

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Reagan First Bush Administrations

Reagan First Bush Administrations

Reagan, First Bush Administrations Cynically winked at Saddam’s use of Chemical Weapons: Salon.com Barry Lando, writing in Salon.com, surveys the ways in which Reagan and […]

Juan Cole

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