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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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Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes

Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes

TeleSur | – – Facebook seems to have deleted the racist, sexist group’s page while the popular movie-ranking site announced its plan as hate speech. […]

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Environment
11 billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs

11 billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs

By Joleah Lamb | (The Conversation) | – – There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific, […]

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Spying on the Wrong People: The Hypocrisy of the Nunes Memo & FISA

Spying on the Wrong People: The Hypocrisy of the Nunes Memo & FISA

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The frenzy over the Nunes memo, likely to be released later today by the Trump administration, […]

Juan Cole

Banking
The Great Trump Bubble

The Great Trump Bubble

Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
206 Global Companies profit from Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank

206 Global Companies profit from Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Wednesday identifying […]

Juan Cole

Green Energy
Is a Transition to Renewable Energy on the Verge of Being Unstoppable?

Is a Transition to Renewable Energy on the Verge of Being Unstoppable?

By Steven O. Kimbrough | ( Knowledge@Wharton) | – – As the world inches towards using more renewable energy and less fossil fuel for generating […]

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Green Energy
Why the 1st Floating Wind Farm, off Scotland, Might Save the World (Video

Why the 1st Floating Wind Farm, off Scotland, Might Save the World (Video

Statoil | (Video Report) | – – “Some people thought we were crazy when we put a giant wind turbine on top of a floating […]

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Donald Trump
Cherry-Picking Intel, Nunes and the Iraq War Disaster

Cherry-Picking Intel, Nunes and the Iraq War Disaster

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Here is a caution against the Nunes memo that the Republican Party intends to release: it […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Chiefs Of Three Russian Intelligence Agencies Travel To Washington

Chiefs Of Three Russian Intelligence Agencies Travel To Washington

Mike Eckel | ( RFE/RL) | – – WASHINGTON — The directors of Russia’s three main intelligence and espionage agencies all traveled to the U.S. […]

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