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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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Can American Democracy survive six Standing Wars?

Can American Democracy survive six Standing Wars?

William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Whether the rationale is the need to wage a war on terror involving 76 countries […]

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Antisemitism
Right's ban on phrase "Polish Death Camps" Backfires on Warsaw

Right’s ban on phrase “Polish Death Camps” Backfires on Warsaw

Sławomir Sierakowski | (Project Syndicate) | – – A new Polish law criminalizes blaming Poles for any wrongdoing against other nations. But the move only […]

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The ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ Protest Iran's Compulsory Hijab Laws

The ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ Protest Iran’s Compulsory Hijab Laws

By Mahsa Alimardani | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – A spate of defiant Iranian women have taken to the streets of Tehran to protest […]

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Syria
Turkey/Syria: Border Guards Shoot, Block Fleeing Syrians

Turkey/Syria: Border Guards Shoot, Block Fleeing Syrians

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Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet

Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian side of the story, presented in the Syrian press, is that an al-Qaeda-linked group […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

TeleSur | – – Two left-wing groups in the U.S. organized the letters campaign and protests marking the the 17th birthday of the imprised Palestinian […]

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Arms Sales
Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe

Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe

By Miriam Pemberton | (Otherwords.org) | – – Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the […]

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Donald Trump
The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate

The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians that the Nunes memo is a dud, dead on […]

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Saudi Arabia
Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen

Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen

Middle East Monitor | – – Violent clashes broke out Thursday in Al-Mahrah governorate between Saudi Arabia’s forces and unidentified armed smugglers, Aden Tomorrow reported. […]

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