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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?
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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?

Dan Steinbock

On October 7, 2023 – two years ago – the Hamas-led offensive was portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11” that came out of the blue. This assumption […]

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:18

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18

10/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

10/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Anchor on IDF Troops sent to Occupied Palestine: ‘We get back Animals’

Israeli Anchor on IDF Troops sent to Occupied Palestine: ‘We get back Animals’

The New Right Party will call on Attorney General Mandelblit to investigate Kotler’s comments for libel.

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Kurds
Leftist Syrian Kurds who defeated ISIL Plead with Europe not to Abandon them as Trump Did

Leftist Syrian Kurds who defeated ISIL Plead with Europe not to Abandon them as Trump Did

European powers have already rebuffed US proposals for an observer force that would stay on in northeast Syria

AFP

Donald Trump
Top 5 Reasons Trump should not get the Nobel Peace Prize

Top 5 Reasons Trump should not get the Nobel Peace Prize

Trump has likely just kicked off a nuclear arms race with Russia

Juan Cole

China
Has the Coming Sino-American Conflict Already Begun?

Has the Coming Sino-American Conflict Already Begun?

In the Western Pacific, the U.S. has stepped up its naval patrols and forged new basing arrangements

Michael T. Klare

Israel/ Palestine
Yes, Ilhan, there is an Israel Lobby - Despite the Phony Controversy

Yes, Ilhan, there is an Israel Lobby – Despite the Phony Controversy

In a country that has elected a born-rich, incompetent, petulant child as its president nothing should really surprise us any longer, but the absurdities of […]

Walter L. Hixson

Holocaust
Outreach of Israel’s Netanyahu to Polish Right Roiled by Holocaust Assertion

Outreach of Israel’s Netanyahu to Polish Right Roiled by Holocaust Assertion

A Polish law made it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in Nazi German crimes

AFP

Yemen
Despite House Resolution, US Military Still Helping Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen

Despite House Resolution, US Military Still Helping Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen

Should the Senate pass the resolution on Yemen, it could force Trump to issue the first veto of his tenure.

AFP

Donald Trump
Leader of Free World Angela Merkel Rips Bark off Trump for humiliating German Auto Industry

Leader of Free World Angela Merkel Rips Bark off Trump for humiliating German Auto Industry

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a major speech on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed anxiety that the world’s […]

Juan Cole

nationalism
The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion

The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion

The wall addresses a core psychological insecurity. Trump supporters — and many others — feel as if their own privileges are evaporating.

John Feffer

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