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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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Election Westworld?  Bots were 20% of your Twitter News Feed

Election Westworld? Bots were 20% of your Twitter News Feed

By Emilio Ferrara | (The Conversation) | – – Key to democracy is public engagement – when people discuss the issues of the day with […]

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censorship
European journalists brand Turkey ‘biggest prison in the world’

European journalists brand Turkey ‘biggest prison in the world’

By Herbert Vytiska | EurActiv.de | Translated By Samuel Morgan | EurActiv | – – Curbs on press freedom have been dramatically increased since the […]

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Dear Ann Coulter:  Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either

Dear Ann Coulter: Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many of the anxieties that have roiled this year’s election have had an underlying theme, of […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?

Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?

By Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON (IPS) – Many US citizens may instinctively believe they still live in the land […]

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Israel/ Palestine
W. Bank Palestinian farmers: Israeli squatters stole harvest of 400 olive trees

W. Bank Palestinian farmers: Israeli squatters stole harvest of 400 olive trees

NABLUS (Ma’an) — Palestinian farmers in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus reported on Monday that Israeli settlers stole the harvest of 400 […]

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Iraq
Iraq's Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields

Iraq’s Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields

Human Rights Watch | – – All Forces Should Take Necessary Precautions to Protect Civilians (Erbil) – In areas around Mosul, the Islamic State, also […]

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FBI
Top 5 Times the FBI intervened to Help the US Right Wing

Top 5 Times the FBI intervened to Help the US Right Wing

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – What is unusual about the FBI’s intervention in the 2016 election is not the intervention. The […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There

Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There

Special Correspondent | Baghdad | Niqash.org | – – NIQASH’s Mosul correspondent explains why people in the city did not resist the [so-called] Islamic State […]

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Climate Change
Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture

Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture

By Lili Fuhr | ( Project Syndicate ) BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in […]

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