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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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Yemeni Peace Nobelist Karman: Saudi Arabia, UAE are occupying Yemen

Yemeni Peace Nobelist Karman: Saudi Arabia, UAE are occupying Yemen

Middle East Monitor | – – Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman called for an end to the Saudi-led coalition’s military occupation of Yemen in […]

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Evolution
In Blow for British White Nationalists, Their Ancestor was Black

In Blow for British White Nationalists, Their Ancestor was Black

TeleSur | – – The connection often made between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth,” said Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist. Cutting-edge DNA […]

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Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws

Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws

By Moujan Mirdamadi | (The Conversation) | – – Protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab law – which requires all women to wear it in public […]

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Afghanistan
Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?

Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – 2017 was a year of investigations for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).  There was the investigation of the […]

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Donald Trump
American Allegory?  Trump Aide Porter resigns amid Charges of Spousal Abuse (Video)

American Allegory? Trump Aide Porter resigns amid Charges of Spousal Abuse (Video)

Washington Post | (Video Clip) | – – “Jennie Willoughby is one of two ex-wives of White House aide, Rob Porter alleging emotional and physical […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability

Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US troops and the Kurdish and Arab fighters among whom they are embedded came under a […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right

Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right

By Harry Blain | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes […]

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China
How Trump’s Erratic Isolationism is Helping China Rise

How Trump’s Erratic Isolationism is Helping China Rise

By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In his State of the Union address, Donald Trump warned grimly of “rivals like China and […]

Juan Cole

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Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive

Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Arabic daily Elaph reports that hundreds of Kurds who came into Afrin from other Kurdish […]

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