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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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Peace in Islam:  Qur’an 73:10 on Patience as Tolerance

Peace in Islam: Qur’an 73:10 on Patience as Tolerance

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chapter 73 of the Qur’an, “The Robed” (Al-Muzammil), contains what is probably the earliest Islamic injunction to turn the other […]

Juan Cole

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Trump on Syria Chem Attack: Putin responsible for supporting "Animal Assad"

Trump on Syria Chem Attack: Putin responsible for supporting “Animal Assad”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Sunday, Trump responded to the use by the Syrian regime of a chlorine-filled barrel bomb […]

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Yemen
Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?

Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?

By Olivia Alperstein | (Otherwords.org) | – – American taxpayers are helping to fight someone else’s war in Yemen, and the blood is on our […]

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Syria
Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma

Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma

Middle East Monitor | – – Russia’s military said an operation would begin on Sunday to bring fighters of the Jaish al-Islam rebel group out […]

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Petroleum
Why Electric Cars are Better:  Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Twice as bad as Thought

Why Electric Cars are Better: Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Twice as bad as Thought

TeleSur | – – The spill gave further ammunition to environmental groups and other U.S. opponents of another pipeline the company has proposed, the long-delayed […]

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Syrian Regime kills dozens in Chem attack on Douma Holdout Enclave: Why?

Syrian Regime kills dozens in Chem attack on Douma Holdout Enclave: Why?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Saudi-backed fundamentalist militia “Army of Islam” in the Douma district of East Ghouta near Damascus […]

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Qatar
Geographical Warfare?: Saudi plans to make Qatar an Island

Geographical Warfare?: Saudi plans to make Qatar an Island

By Daniel Martin Varisco | (MENA Tidningen) | – – On June 5, 2016 Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain began a boycott of its […]

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Syria
Kurds of Afrin looted by Turkey-backed Arab Militias, as Syria blocks Kurdish Exodus

Kurds of Afrin looted by Turkey-backed Arab Militias, as Syria blocks Kurdish Exodus

Human Rights Watch | – – Turkish-Allied Groups Loot, Destroy People’s Property (Beirut) – Syrian government forces are blocking some civilians fleeing the Turkish-led military […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers assassinate one Palestinian Journalist, Wound 3 others

Israeli Snipers assassinate one Palestinian Journalist, Wound 3 others

TeleSur | – – The Great March of Return began on March 30th and will continue until May 15. A Palestinian journalist covering the Great […]

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