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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > beyond-washingtons-blunders.html

Beyond Iran: Washington's Long Record of Middle East Blunders

10+ hour, 45+ min ago   (951+ words) ( Middle East Monitor ) – The US government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence. Washington is rapidly losing power and status in the Middle East, a decline…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > britain-finally-occupied.html

Britain Finally bans Goods from the Israeli-Occupied West Bank

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (481+ words) This decision will be followed by several other countries. Last September, Britain together with several other European countries and Canada recognized the state of Palestine. Today, Miliband said that eleven countries, including France, Canada, Spain and Poland, will implement the…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > hottest-president-literally.html

Hot, Hotter, Hottest: The President from (Literally) Hell

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (429+ words) ( Tom Engelhardt Substack ) – Honestly, I don’t think we really get it yet. Let’s face it. It’s going to be hot, hot, hot. Or do I mean hotter, hotter, hotter, or even hottest, hottest, hottest, or someday, for all we know,…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > assertive-rhetoric-dangerous.html

Iran War: Tehran’s assertive Rhetoric signals a new and dangerous Phase in Conflict

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (860+ words) By Bamo Nouri, City St George’s, University of London and Inderjeet Parmar, City St George’s, University of London Tehran has also announced it is preparing to sign an agreement with Oman which would establish a new corridor through the Strait…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > israeli-journalists-ceasefires.html

Israeli Strikes Wound Journalists in Lebanon and Gaza amid "Ceasefires"

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (334+ words) ( Committee to Protect Journalists) – Amman | – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the recent escalation in Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon, which have injured at least four journalists, including three on Sunday, underscoring the fragility of the ceasefires…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > israels-without-gazans.html

Israel's Dark Dream of Gaza without Gazans

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (203+ words) Speaking on 2nd September at a conference organised by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz returned to a theme so rapidly hardening it is likely to ossify at any given moment: that a Gaza filled with…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > civilian-iranian-disables.html

In War Crime, Trump sinks Civilian Iranian Tanker, disables 2 Others

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (298+ words) The US Central Command released video of the strikes: CENTCOM Destroys 3 IRGC Oil Tankers After Iran Targets 2 U.S. Navy Warships The US sinking of an unarmed Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman appears to be a war crime. The…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > iran-months-failure.html

The War on Iran: Six Months of Epic Failure

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (242+ words) ( Truthdig ) – We are in the seventh month of a war Donald Trump began on a whim, waged incoherently and lost decisively. But in the demented, steadily shrinking Trump World, he is a hero. Last week, he proudly declared “Mission Accomplished…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 09 > shifted-power-works.html

War has shifted how power works in Iran

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (865+ words) By Andreas Krieg, King’s College London (The Conversation) – When Washington unveiled its economic “D-Day” on August 19, the latest tightening of the financial siege and the blockade around Iran’s ports, it believed it was applying decisive leverage. But in Tehran the…...

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juancole.com > 2026 > 08 > catastrophe-netanyahu-escalated.html

Hormuz Catastrophe: Netanyahu & Trump knew Risks, Escalated Anyway

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1175+ words) Singapore (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Iran has not collapsed, while Hormuz has become a global economic choke point. The central failure was not ignorance of the risks, but the political decision in Washington and Tel Aviv to gamble that…...