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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Persecution and the threat to the refugee system

Persecution and the threat to the refugee system

By Brad K. Blitz | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – We need to accept that for millions of refugees persecution is the principal reason for flight […]

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Bush
Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow

Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s shameful halt to the admission of refugees for 6 months and his 3-month pause in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
New report reveals top Israeli official living in illegal colonial settlement

New report reveals top Israeli official living in illegal colonial settlement

IMEMC News | – – An Israeli Finance Minister, who is in charge of implementing a law to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank, […]

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Donald Trump
Trump sees Press as Public Enemy No. 1 – Reporters w/out Borders

Trump sees Press as Public Enemy No. 1 – Reporters w/out Borders

By IPS News Desk | – – ROME (IPS) – “Alarmed” by the new administration’s “repeated attacks on the media and blatant disregard for facts […]

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Donald Trump
Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy

Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy

By Phyllis Bennis | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims […]

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Torture works . . . to produce Fake News (and that’s how we Got into Iraq)

Torture works . . . to produce Fake News (and that’s how we Got into Iraq)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I told this story back in 2005 but it is a good story, has held up, […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
From Ugly American to American Bully

From Ugly American to American Bully

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – I came of age during America’s Cold War with the Soviet Union, witnessing its […]

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Donald Trump
How Trump’s ‘Alternative Facts’ Will bite his own Supporters on the Ass

How Trump’s ‘Alternative Facts’ Will bite his own Supporters on the Ass

By Peter Certo | ( Otherwords.org ) | – – If Trump can sell a plain-as-day lie about his inauguration crowd, he can lie about […]

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astronomy and outer space
US Government Scientists Go 'Rogue' in Defiance of Trump

US Government Scientists Go ‘Rogue’ in Defiance of Trump

TeleSur | – – Twitter accounts are being used as a tool of resistance to fight censorship and bring reliable scientific information to the public. […]

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