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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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Climate Change
Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Tampa (AFP) – Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the […]

Kerry Sheridan

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Israel's Druze Minority Furious over Apartheid Law, Given their Military Service.

Israel’s Druze Minority Furious over Apartheid Law, Given their Military Service.

Israel may never have been paradise for the some 20% of its citizens who are non-Jewish and Arabic-speaking. They did face de facto and sometimes […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Saudi King overrules Crown Prince, Rejects Trump's Sell-Out of Palestinians

Saudi King overrules Crown Prince, Rejects Trump’s Sell-Out of Palestinians

Insists that E Jerusalem must be capital of Palestine

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Judge gives Palestinian Poet 5 Months in Prison for her Resistance Verse

Israeli Judge gives Palestinian Poet 5 Months in Prison for her Resistance Verse

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Magistrate Court of Nazareth sentenced Palestinian poet Darin Tatour, from the al-Reineh village in northern Israel, to five months of […]

Maan News Agency

Islamophobia
The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers

The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases […]

Arnold R. Isaacs

Islam
Love in the Qur’an: 19:96

Love in the Qur’an: 19:96

Despite the negative messaging nowadays about the Qur’an (the scripture of the Muslims) among the haters, it is a book replete with love, mercy, warmth […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us

Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us

Ann Arbor (Aeon) – Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early […]

Henry Cowles

Donald Trump
Trump Passive-Aggressive Offer to Meet Iranians Rebuffed b/c he is “Unreliable”

Trump Passive-Aggressive Offer to Meet Iranians Rebuffed b/c he is “Unreliable”

At a news conference Monday with the prime minister of Italy, Trump blurted out that he was willing to meet with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Teen Ahed Tamimi:  Israelis should put Selves in My Place, Recover their Humanity

Palestinian Teen Ahed Tamimi: Israelis should put Selves in My Place, Recover their Humanity

Nabi Saleh (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi said Monday she was deeply changed by her eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail for […]

Joe Dyke

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