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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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Turks Threaten al-Assad if he sends Army to Defend Syrian Kurds

Turks Threaten al-Assad if he sends Army to Defend Syrian Kurds

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Rumors swirled on Monday that the Democratic Union Party in the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Why Black Panther’s Wakanda Is the Black Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For

Why Black Panther’s Wakanda Is the Black Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For

By Ingrid LaFleur | ( Yes! Magazine) | – – Before the film was released, the nation of Wakanda was taking shape in our minds. […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Church Shooting 'Nothing To Do With Islam,' Say Russian Muslim Leaders

Church Shooting ‘Nothing To Do With Islam,’ Say Russian Muslim Leaders

RFE/RL | – – The mainstream Muslim leadership in Russia’s Daghestan region has condemned an attack that killed five people outside a Russian Orthodox church, […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Is the Syria War over and has Putin won it?

Is the Syria War over and has Putin won it?

By Danny Makki | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – The end game is clear: Assad, Russia and Iran will emerge victorious. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad […]

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Mass Shootings and Gang Murders have unrestricted Semi-Automatic Weapons in Common

Mass Shootings and Gang Murders have unrestricted Semi-Automatic Weapons in Common

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised Can anything be done about the phenomenon of “mass shootings?” These killings have plagued the […]

Juan Cole

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Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria

Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria

By Jeffrey D. Sachs | ( Project Syndicate) | – – America’s official narrative has sought to conceal the scale and calamitous consequences of US […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel isn't Just Occupying Palestinian West Bank, it is Polluting It

Israel isn’t Just Occupying Palestinian West Bank, it is Polluting It

Ramona Wadi (@walzerscent) | (The Middle East Monitor) | – – Israel remains the only UN member state which has never declared where its borders […]

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New Survey Finding: Trump Likely owed his 2016 victory to 'fake news'

New Survey Finding: Trump Likely owed his 2016 victory to ‘fake news’

Democratic defectors to Trump believed Hillary was ill or sold weapons to ISIS

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Despite Coal Lobby, Australia to Double Solar Energy in 2018

Despite Coal Lobby, Australia to Double Solar Energy in 2018

Already 1 in 5 Australian homes has solar panels

Juan Cole

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