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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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That Time the Republican Party Made McCain Black to Defeat his Presidential Bid

That Time the Republican Party Made McCain Black to Defeat his Presidential Bid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Racism is so pervasive in the United States, and white power elites work so hard to stigmatize minorities, that the […]

Juan Cole

Russia
Russian Trolls Tried to Kill Us: Hackers Stirred up anti-Vaxxers to Roil US

Russian Trolls Tried to Kill Us: Hackers Stirred up anti-Vaxxers to Roil US

Washington (AFP) – Russian trolls and bots on Twitter attempted to influence the debate over vaccine safety with the aim of sowing discord among the […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu Courting Right to Split Europe, Stop Palestinian State

Israeli PM Netanyahu Courting Right to Split Europe, Stop Palestinian State

London (Middle East Monitor) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told reporters accompanying him on his visit to Lithuania that he is seeking to […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
PLO to Trump: ‘The Rights of the Palestinian People are not for Sale’

PLO to Trump: ‘The Rights of the Palestinian People are not for Sale’

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian officials of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) responded, on Saturday, to the United States Trump administration cutting more than $200 million […]

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump
Trump's Foreign Policy Hand Crippled by Legal Woes

Trump’s Foreign Policy Hand Crippled by Legal Woes

Trump’s domestic woes as an unindicted co-conspirator inevitably make him weak on the world stage. Foreign adversaries don’t take seriously a president who looks as […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Israeli Connection to Trump's Russia Connection

The Israeli Connection to Trump’s Russia Connection

London (Al-Bab.com) – George Papadopoulos, the first person to plead guilty in the Trump-Russia affair, is due to be sentenced soon for giving false information […]

Brian Whitaker

Donald Trump
Making America Hated Again: Trump’s Mideast Policy of Strongmen and War

Making America Hated Again: Trump’s Mideast Policy of Strongmen and War

By David Mednicoff | – Donald Trump has shown little interest in encouraging democratic politics and human rights in other countries. This departure from decades […]

The Conversation

Yemen
Yemen: Outcry over Saudi Airstrikes on Children Marks 3 Years of War

Yemen: Outcry over Saudi Airstrikes on Children Marks 3 Years of War

Sanaa (AFP) – A Saudi-led coalition launched military operations in Yemen in 2015, helping the government to push back against rebels who had taken control […]

AFP

Donald Trump
Trump Slashes more than $200 mn in Aid to Palestinians

Trump Slashes more than $200 mn in Aid to Palestinians

Washington (AFP) – The United States said Friday that it had canceled more than $200 million in aid for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip […]

AFP

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