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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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Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based  Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers

Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers

this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted

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Donald Trump
All Donald, All the Time: America's Ruin as Spectacle

All Donald, All the Time: America’s Ruin as Spectacle

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – A record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening. It’s far too unique, too unprecedented even […]

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Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?

Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kate Duguid at Reuters reports the alarm at UBS that China’s new oil futures exchange will […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump

Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump

Middle East Monitor | – – Construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank surged 17 per cent during the first year of US President […]

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Saudi Arabia
Yemen: Thousands Protest 3 Years of West-backed Saudi War

Yemen: Thousands Protest 3 Years of West-backed Saudi War

TeleSur | – – in Since the military offensive began 10,000 people have been killed, and 53,000 wounded. In Yemen‘s capital Sanaa, tens of thousands […]

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Donald Trump
Trumpism: Why having US Ambassadors in 1/3 of Countries & Spec Ops in 3/4s is Bad

Trumpism: Why having US Ambassadors in 1/3 of Countries & Spec Ops in 3/4s is Bad

Monica Duffy Toft | (The Conversation) | – – A strong legacy of U.S. leadership and engagement in global politics has been reduced today to […]

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Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen

Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Three years ago this month, the then 29-year-old Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia (now its […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump v. the World:  Is Diplomacy Dead?

Trump v. the World: Is Diplomacy Dead?

By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Donald Trump has a plan to solve America’s drug crisis: kill the drug dealers. “We have […]

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Netherlands to Build 1st Wholly unsubsidized Offshore Wind Farms

Netherlands to Build 1st Wholly unsubsidized Offshore Wind Farms

By Sam Morgan | EURACTIV.com The Dutch government has begun to follow through on its renewable energy pledges by awarding Swedish firm Vattenfall two contracts […]

Juan Cole

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