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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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The Dutch to Trump:  We have the Second best Words

The Dutch to Trump: We have the Second best Words

VPRO zondag met lubach | (Video Satire> | – – “The whole world was watching for the inauguration of the 45th president of the United […]

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Trump’s ‘nationalism’ is just the Globalism of the 1%

Trump’s ‘nationalism’ is just the Globalism of the 1%

By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Donald Trump is a worldly fellow. He travels the globe on his private jet. He’s married […]

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Trump Signs Executive Orders Pushing Dakota, Keystone Pipelines

TeleSur | – – The decision comes as a blow to environmentalists and Indigenous groups opposing the controversial projects. U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli former Minister Cancels Belgium Visit fearing Arrest for Gaza War Crimes

Israeli former Minister Cancels Belgium Visit fearing Arrest for Gaza War Crimes

IMEMC News | – – Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has reportedly cancelled her trip to Belgium, according to the PNN, over threats of […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Trump to al-Sisi:  Syria's al-Assad is a Brave, steadfast Man (Beirut Report)

Trump to al-Sisi: Syria’s al-Assad is a Brave, steadfast Man (Beirut Report)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – al-Diyar (The Lands) [Beirut] reports on what Egyptian officials allegedly leaked about the telephone conversation between […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu vows Israeli squatter settlement expansion in Palestinian E. Jerusalem

Netanyahu vows Israeli squatter settlement expansion in Palestinian E. Jerusalem

Ma’an News | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised his far-right government on Sunday that he would lift all restrictions […]

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Authoritarianism
Your Presidency Sucks: The Republican Party and its Orange Bunny

Your Presidency Sucks: The Republican Party and its Orange Bunny

By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – When the late Roger Ebert saw director Vincent Gallo’s film The Brown Bunny at the Cannes […]

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Donald Trump
Oil-Rich Arab States Quietly Join Israel in Cheering for Trump

Oil-Rich Arab States Quietly Join Israel in Cheering for Trump

TeleSur | – – Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf Arab allies are happy to see Obama leave office as President Donald Trump would be […]

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Saudi Arabia
Will Saudi Reforms be enough to Forestall big Trouble ahead?

Will Saudi Reforms be enough to Forestall big Trouble ahead?

By Bernard Haykel | (Project Syndicate) | – – In 2017, Saudi Arabia will continue to pursue two key goals: to reduce its economy’s dependence […]

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