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‘Diplomacy, not murder, is the best path forward,’ said Bernie Sanders. Here’s how to make that happen.
Any US military action against Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities would be a massive war crime.
With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over. The relationship between wealth and favorable outcomes only works when that wealth is invested in the many, not the few.
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A new documentary about Iran reveals how MI6 and the CIA collaborated in the 1953 coup that overthrew the country's first democratically elected leader Mohammed Mossadegh. Click here for screenings.
Among the most brutal realities for Palestinians is loss of support from Arab states, who pay lip service to their own populations, while drawing closer to Israel with economic interests and Iran in mind.
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Sunless Shadows, Oskouei’s new documentary about a juvenile detention center in Iran, interrogates the experience of women in prison in Iran.
This might be the final stretch for his failed policy of maximum pressure.
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