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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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Turkish Party Proposes Seizing Trump Towers to Retaliate for US Sanctions

Turkish Party Proposes Seizing Trump Towers to Retaliate for US Sanctions

The Turkish Press reports that the IYI Party is suggesting that the government seize the country’s Trump Towers and nationalize it. The threat shows the […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Things are So Bad in Iran that Afghan Migrants are Going Home

Things are So Bad in Iran that Afghan Migrants are Going Home

Kabul (RFE/RL) – More than 400,000 undocumented Afghan migrants left Iran for Afghanistan so far in 2018, many of them in buses from Herat, near […]

Frud Bezhan

Climate Change
Heatwave Deaths to Rise 2,000% over next 60 Years in 1/3 of Earth

Heatwave Deaths to Rise 2,000% over next 60 Years in 1/3 of Earth

The researchers relied on historical data and used climate models to estimate future temperatures. Heatwave-related deaths could rise up to 2,000 percent by 2080, according […]

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Plutocracy
5 Red Flashing Signals of the Great Trump Crash

5 Red Flashing Signals of the Great Trump Crash

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Here we are in the middle of the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency and if there’s one thing we know […]

Nomi Prins

Syria
Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Jerusalem (AFP) – Gains by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the Syrian civil war present advantages for Israel even though the two countries remain technically […]

AFP

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Did Tillerson lose his Job over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar?

Did Tillerson lose his Job over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar?

Alex Emmons at The Intercept interviewed two former State Department officials and one intelligence official who confirmed to him that in early June, 2017, Saudi […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump and the Collapse of American Soft Power in the World

Trump and the Collapse of American Soft Power in the World

By Sara Greco | – Ottawa (The Conversation) – At the recent Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president used the […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Urgent: End Israeli Occupation of Palestine, Restore Iran Deal, and Denuclearize ME

Urgent: End Israeli Occupation of Palestine, Restore Iran Deal, and Denuclearize ME

Launched by professors at Princeton University and signed by experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this declaration calls for a break with the policy […]

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Iraq
Broke: US-Installed Iraqi Elite Spent or Stole all $700 bn in Oil Revenue since 2005

Broke: US-Installed Iraqi Elite Spent or Stole all $700 bn in Oil Revenue since 2005

Baghdad (AFP) – Iraq has raised more than $700 billion from oil since 2005, but almost the entire amount has been spent, the central bank […]

AFP

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