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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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Why Women’s Peace Activism in World War I Matters Now

Why Women’s Peace Activism in World War I Matters Now

Proponents of international mediation hoped diplomatic intervention could bring the war to a swift end

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150 Killed in Battle for Yemen’s Hodeida as Millions Face Starvation

150 Killed in Battle for Yemen’s Hodeida as Millions Face Starvation

“There will be no victor in this war”

Natacha Yazbeck

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Macron's Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn't note Dehumanization

Macron’s Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn’t note Dehumanization

The old demons are resurging

Juan Cole

Colonialism
Muslim Troops Helped Entente Win WW I, Shaped European Security

Muslim Troops Helped Entente Win WW I, Shaped European Security

(Informed Comment) – As the world is marking the end of the First World War first centenary and remembering its millions of military and civilian […]

Mohammed Samaana

Republican Party
Putin’s biggest Fanboy in Congress, Rohrabacher, Defeated in bright Red District

Putin’s biggest Fanboy in Congress, Rohrabacher, Defeated in bright Red District

Washington (AFP) – Representative Dana Rohrabacher, whose quixotic foreign policy campaigns made him persona non grata in Pakistan and Afghanistan and who became a rare […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu Defends allowing Qatar to Send millions in Aid to Gaza

Netanyahu Defends allowing Qatar to Send millions in Aid to Gaza

Netanyahu said the Israeli security establishment supported the move

AFP

Afghanistan
Haunted by the Hole where our Memories of the Afghanistan War Should Be

Haunted by the Hole where our Memories of the Afghanistan War Should Be

There are moments when it feels like I never left

Rory Fanning

Qur'an
The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

The Qur’an has subsisted in the literature of Christian and post-Christian Europe and the Americas in a shifting borderland between self and other.

Juan Cole

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The Lessons of World War I-- Don't Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

The Lessons of World War I– Don’t Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump

Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, about which he knows almost nothing. The outbreak of that war in 1914 […]

Juan Cole

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