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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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No, AP, Iran doesn't get to Inspect its own Nuclear Facilities under Deal

No, AP, Iran doesn’t get to Inspect its own Nuclear Facilities under Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Eminent Iran and security expert Gary Sick pointed out in an email late Wednesday that the […]

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Syria: Daesh/ ISIL Kills aged Archeologist who refused to reveal hidden Palmyra Antiquities

Syria: Daesh/ ISIL Kills aged Archeologist who refused to reveal hidden Palmyra Antiquities

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “ISIS beheaded 82-year-old Khaled Al-Asaad on August 18, 2015, in the 2,000-year-old city he spent his life […]

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Climate Change
To Contain Carbon Bomb, US Must End Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands

To Contain Carbon Bomb, US Must End Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘Each new lease puts us farther down the path toward climate catastrophe,’ says Friends of […]

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Nuclear Energy
70 Top nuclear Experts:  Iran Deal a ‘Net-Plus’ for Non-Proliferation Worldwide

70 Top nuclear Experts: Iran Deal a ‘Net-Plus’ for Non-Proliferation Worldwide

By S. Chandra | (Inter Press Service) – – WASHINGTON (IPS) – As the U.S. Congress prepares to vote next month on the landmark Joint […]

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Christians
Huckabee's virtual Genocide: erases Palestinians from West Bank, declares it "Israel"

Huckabee’s virtual Genocide: erases Palestinians from West Bank, declares it “Israel”

IMEMC | – – US presidential contender Mike Huckabee said during a visit to Jerusalem, on Wednesday, that he did not consider the West Bank […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Defying Saudis, Iran:  Muslim thinkers  call for Action on Climate Change at Istanbul Conference

Defying Saudis, Iran: Muslim thinkers call for Action on Climate Change at Istanbul Conference

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Attendees at the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Istanbul from 20 countries produced, and 60 […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Despite Sordid Past, Nuclear Deal can Repair US-Iran Relations:  An open letter to Congress and the White House

Despite Sordid Past, Nuclear Deal can Repair US-Iran Relations: An open letter to Congress and the White House

Francis A. Mlynarczyk, Jr. and Walter M. Cadette | (Informed Comment)| – – Washington has an opportunity to repair its tattered relations with Iran. The […]

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Alawites
Iran's Support for Syria Pragmatic, not Religious (or, Who are the Alawites?)

Iran’s Support for Syria Pragmatic, not Religious (or, Who are the Alawites?)

By Ari Heistein | (Informed Comment) | – – The Shia government in Teheran and the Alawi regime in Damascus have had warm relations since Iran’s Islamic […]

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National Security State
Hard to get Good Help:  Are US Generals just Incompetent?

Hard to get Good Help: Are US Generals just Incompetent?

By William J. Astore | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Thomas Jefferson Hall, West Point’s library and learning center, prominently features two quotations for cadets to […]

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