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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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With South Africa Conspiracy Theory, Trump is becoming Dylann Roof

With South Africa Conspiracy Theory, Trump is becoming Dylann Roof

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – White nationalist terrorist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine African-Americans in a church, including a sitting state senator, confessed himself deeply […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Anti-Trumpism as a Global–and Domestic–Movement

Anti-Trumpism as a Global–and Domestic–Movement

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One thing already seems clear in the Trump era: the world will not turn out to be the American president’s playground. […]

Dilip Hiro

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza is Running out of Fuel, Medicine:  UN

Gaza is Running out of Fuel, Medicine: UN

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations has run out of funding to pay for fuel needed for hospitals, water plants and other […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
It Took Me Three Decades to Drive One Hour from Gaza to Jerusalem

It Took Me Three Decades to Drive One Hour from Gaza to Jerusalem

By Abier Almasri | – Traveling Under Occupation Almost Impossible for Palestinians Locked Inside Gaza Earlier this year, the Israeli army gave me a permit […]

Human Rights Watch

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Int’l Court of Justice Hears Iran’s Suit against Trump’s Unilateral Sanctions

Int’l Court of Justice Hears Iran’s Suit against Trump’s Unilateral Sanctions

The Hague (AFP) – Iran’s legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the UN’s top court Monday, as Tehran seeks to […]

AFP

Donald Trump
Is Trump's Fascism part of the Reason for Cohen's Willingness to Indict Him?

Is Trump’s Fascism part of the Reason for Cohen’s Willingness to Indict Him?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I can only imagine that some Jewish and other minority members of the Trump administration experience significant discomfort at being […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
The Hidden Success of the 1928 Peace Pact

The Hidden Success of the 1928 Peace Pact

Dubuque ( Waging Nonviolence) – In August 1928, over a dozen countries gathered in Paris to sign the Peace Pact, also known in the United […]

David Carroll Cochran

Sufism
Morocco’s Visitation of the Poor honors Sufi Muslim Saint

Morocco’s Visitation of the Poor honors Sufi Muslim Saint

by Hamza Mekouar | – Moulay Driss Zerhoun (Morocco) (AFP) – It’s dubbed the “pilgrimage of the poor” — every summer, tens of thousands of […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Israel to Build 1,000 More Squatter Units on Usurped Palestinian Land

Israel to Build 1,000 More Squatter Units on Usurped Palestinian Land

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved plans for more than 1,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the Peace Now NGO said, […]

AFP

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