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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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Iraq
Grand Ayatollah Sistani Slaps down Trump: You may not use Iraq against its Neighbors

Grand Ayatollah Sistani Slaps down Trump: You may not use Iraq against its Neighbors

“Iraq wants balanced relations with neighboring countries, avoiding interfering in their internal affairs or detracting from their sovereignty.”

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BDS
Lawsuit Against Salaita & American Studies Assn for Boycotting Israel Dismissed

Lawsuit Against Salaita & American Studies Assn for Boycotting Israel Dismissed

These desperate lawsuits brought to silence advocates of Palestinian rights make it even clearer who wants to silence debate

Democracy Now!

workers
Labor Strikes, once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy

Labor Strikes, once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy

The teachers strikes have been focused on demands that have a major impact on the quality of classroom instruction

John Buell

Donald Trump
Trump Hawks don't Care about Democracy, they Want a Brutal Coup for Venezuelan Oil

Trump Hawks don’t Care about Democracy, they Want a Brutal Coup for Venezuelan Oil

This fall, the same Pompeo shared a photo of himself beaming and shaking hands with the murderous Saudi Arabian crown prince

Peter Certo

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians Fear Caravan of Illegal Immigration – of Israeli Squatters to Palestine

Palestinians Fear Caravan of Illegal Immigration – of Israeli Squatters to Palestine

Jerusalem Court ruled that if Israeli settlers built a settlement on private Palestinian land with “good intentions,” it should not be removed

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump
Trump Can't escape having called Nazis "Very Fine People" by SOTU Spectacle

Trump Can’t escape having called Nazis “Very Fine People” by SOTU Spectacle

So this is the story of how Donald Trump tried to use misdirection at his State of the Union address to take the spotlight off […]

Juan Cole

Pentagon
US must probe if Saudis gave US Weapons to al-Qaeda in Yemen: General

US must probe if Saudis gave US Weapons to al-Qaeda in Yemen: General

Saudi-led coalition has allegedly transferred American-made weapons and military vehicles to Qaeda-linked fighters, hardline Salafi militias

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
"Gaza" Documentary on "largest open air prison" wins 33rd Goya Award

“Gaza” Documentary on “largest open air prison” wins 33rd Goya Award

McConnell, a photojournalist, first visited Gaza in 2010 and in 2012 he teamed up with documentary filmmaker, Keane, for the film.

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump
America's Endless Wars on Autopilot in our Endless Trumpworld

America’s Endless Wars on Autopilot in our Endless Trumpworld

Still, I find myself wondering: If a proposed troop drawdown in Afghanistan qualifies as a “mistake”

Andrew J. Bacevich

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