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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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National Security State
US Planetary Military: From Failed Mideast Counter-Insurgency to Nuclear Brinkmanship

US Planetary Military: From Failed Mideast Counter-Insurgency to Nuclear Brinkmanship

Make no mistake: war with Russia would be an unnecessary disaster — and it could go nuclear.

Danny Sjursen

Donald Trump
Ivanka Trump’s use of Personal Email for Gov’t Business called a “blatant derogation of the law.”

Ivanka Trump’s use of Personal Email for Gov’t Business called a “blatant derogation of the law.”

Cummings: “We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, (her husband) Jared Kushner and other officials are complying with federal records laws…”

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Israel Seeks to undermine US 1st Amendment, Will Sue Airbnb over Delisting WB Squatter Apts

Israel Seeks to undermine US 1st Amendment, Will Sue Airbnb over Delisting WB Squatter Apts

Airbnb, the giant online apartment rental site will delist 200 apartments of Israeli squatters on the Palestinian West Bank. The company has long been criticized […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Some Countries will have to Face 6 Climate Catastrophes at Once

Some Countries will have to Face 6 Climate Catastrophes at Once

(TeleSur) – The future risk of dealing with multiple climate impacts at once depends on geography and whether humanity succeeds in rapidly drawing down greenhouse […]

TeleSur

Republican Party
Defeating the Fasc-Lican Party

Defeating the Fasc-Lican Party

After the election I received a provocative letter from my friend and mentor Bill Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins and author […]

John Buell

Sexual Assault
Trump tries but fails to block UN #MeToo Resolution against Sexual Harassment

Trump tries but fails to block UN #MeToo Resolution against Sexual Harassment

The United States failed on Monday to water down a UN resolution on combatting sexual harassment

AFP

Islamophobia
On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)

On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)

Of the 100 million or so people I estimate were wiped out by political violence in the twentieth century, the vast majority of them were killed by secular nationalists, Communists and Fascists

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Is the Green New Deal our Civil Rights Movement?  John Lewis Joins

Is the Green New Deal our Civil Rights Movement? John Lewis Joins

Veteran Congressman and Civil Rights icon John Lewis (D-GA) has joined the Green New Deal proposed by the Sunrise Movement and endorsed by newly elected […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Shattering Europe?  The Debris of Trump's Paris Fiasco

Shattering Europe? The Debris of Trump’s Paris Fiasco

Even before Air Force One touched down in Paris, Trump took aim on Twitter at his host, French President Emmanuel Macron

Rajan Menon

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