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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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Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as 'Terrorist' for Speaking Jesus' Language

Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely […]

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Why Internment of Japanese Americans is an outrageous Model for registering Muslim-Americans

Why Internment of Japanese Americans is an outrageous Model for registering Muslim-Americans

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump adviser Carl Higbie told Megyn Kelly on Fox “News” that the new administration wanted to […]

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The Islamophobic Black-Ops Master who'll Head Trump's National Security Team

The Islamophobic Black-Ops Master who’ll Head Trump’s National Security Team

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – As former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was “one […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Lieberman calls on Trump to help  development of Israeli squatter settlements

Lieberman calls on Trump to help development of Israeli squatter settlements

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Amid a storm of postulations surrounding what the American President-elect Donald Trump’s policies would look like […]

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Climate Change
16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change

16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change

AJ+ | (Video Report) | – – “Indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is one of 21 young plaintiffs suing the federal government to demand action […]

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Immigration
ADL Director Pledges to Sign Up For Muslim Registry

ADL Director Pledges to Sign Up For Muslim Registry

ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt pledged today that he would sign himself up for a registry of foreign-born Muslims.

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Donald Trump
Syria's al-Assad:  Trump "a natural ally"

Syria’s al-Assad: Trump “a natural ally”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In an interview with Portugal television Wednesday, according to al-Hayat, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said that […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump's Steve Bannon:  Abusive, White Nationalist Media Baron

Trump’s Steve Bannon: Abusive, White Nationalist Media Baron

TeleSur | – – “You have an individual … who’s basically creating the ideological aspects of where we’re going,” said former imperial wizard, David Duke […]

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History
What Everyone Should Know about the Prophet Muhammad

What Everyone Should Know about the Prophet Muhammad

Steve Scholl | (Spirituality and Health Magazine) | – – Muhammad has become a strangely unifying figure in America—able to get conservative Glenn Beck and […]

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