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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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Paradoxes of Women and Iran’s Islamic Republic: More Education but a hundred Glass Ceilings

Paradoxes of Women and Iran’s Islamic Republic: More Education but a hundred Glass Ceilings

If a woman is successful in a line of work like this, she’s fought very hard

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Turkey, NATO ally, Rejects US "Coup Attempt" in Venezuela

Turkey, NATO ally, Rejects US “Coup Attempt” in Venezuela

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is no surprise that Iran should be supporting the Venezuelan government of Maduro, given that both typically take anti-imperialist […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Facebook takes Down Vast Iran-Led Manipulation Campaign

Facebook takes Down Vast Iran-Led Manipulation Campaign

The operation dating back to as early as 2010 had 262 pages, 356 accounts

Glenn Chapman

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Siege of Gaza producing "Grotesque" Medical Crisis: European Doctors

Israeli Siege of Gaza producing “Grotesque” Medical Crisis: European Doctors

“Israeli snipers have been firing military grade ammunition and maiming bullets at the border at unarmed demonstrators, killing 257 to date

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Spanish Firm Rejects Israeli Tender for Jerusalem Railroad as Stealing Palestinian Land

Spanish Firm Rejects Israeli Tender for Jerusalem Railroad as Stealing Palestinian Land

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Spanish rail equipment manufacturer CAF announced, on Friday, that it had refused to participate in a tender to build a section of […]

Maan News Agency

Climate Change
Global Warming caused Enormous city-sized Hole discovered in Antarctic Glacier

Global Warming caused Enormous city-sized Hole discovered in Antarctic Glacier

In an academic paper in the journal Science Advances nestles a short sentence that at first glance is hard to detach from the specialist prose […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Could Trump Really Launch a War With Iran?

Could Trump Really Launch a War With Iran?

This time around, the U.S. is pretty much alone.

Conn M. Hallinan

Israel/ Palestine
Israel demolishes Bedouin village Al-Araqeeb for 139th time, Plans Expulsion of 36,000

Israel demolishes Bedouin village Al-Araqeeb for 139th time, Plans Expulsion of 36,000

More than 60 years later, the Bedouin villages have yet to be legally recognised by Israel

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

Our new data-driven best estimate is a death toll of 56 million by the beginning of the 1600s

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