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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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Saudi Women mount ‘inside-out’ Veil Protest

Saudi Women mount ‘inside-out’ Veil Protest

Riyadh (AFP) – Saudi women have mounted a rare protest against the abaya, posting pictures on social media wearing the obligatory body-shrouding robe inside out. […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Battles in Gaza but loses Politically

Israel Battles in Gaza but loses Politically

(48hills) – Earlier this week the Israeli military and armed groups in Gaza clashed in the worst fighting since their 2014 war. Israeli planes bombed […]

Reese Erlich

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Trump said Considering Extradition of Turkish Cleric to Quiet Erdogan on Khashoggi Murder

Trump said Considering Extradition of Turkish Cleric to Quiet Erdogan on Khashoggi Murder

The US government has repeatedly denied such Turkish requests

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Young Woman Faces Death Penalty for Peaceful Protest

Saudi Young Woman Faces Death Penalty for Peaceful Protest

Al-Ghomgham was arrested in 2015 over her role in anti-government protests in Al-Qatif back in 2011

Global Voices

Donald Trump
The Trump Show:  The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7

The Trump Show: The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7

Never, not ever, has a single human being been so inescapable.

Tom Engelhardt

Iran
Trump's New Iran Oil Sanctions may Hurt Americans more than Iran

Trump’s New Iran Oil Sanctions may Hurt Americans more than Iran

Panic over prices at the pump

The Conversation

BDS
Top Chefs bow out of Israel Food Festival under BDS/ Boycott pressure

Top Chefs bow out of Israel Food Festival under BDS/ Boycott pressure

Two leading chefs have pulled out of the Tel Aviv-hosted Round Tables food festival following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, reported […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
All our Dystopias Now: Climate Crisis, Plutocracy and Hyper-Nationalism

All our Dystopias Now: Climate Crisis, Plutocracy and Hyper-Nationalism

(Tomdispatch.com) – The mid-term elections are over, and the Democrats have regained the House, but the rest of American political reality remains intact. Meanwhile, the […]

John Feffer

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Scotland was first Industrialized Country to Run wholly on Wind in October

Scotland was first Industrialized Country to Run wholly on Wind in October

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland generated enough wind power from onshore wind turbines in October to fuel electricity for five million homes, that is, […]

Juan Cole

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