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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

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Top Six Signs ISIL/ Daesh is Doomed

Top Six Signs ISIL/ Daesh is Doomed

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It has been over a year since Mosul fell to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). In some ways […]

Juan Cole

Foreign Policy
Trying to out-Trump Trump, Huckabee goes all Holocaust on Obama's Iran Deal

Trying to out-Trump Trump, Huckabee goes all Holocaust on Obama’s Iran Deal

CBSN | (Video News Report) | “After weeks of controversial remarks, GOP primary candidate Donald Trump is still leading in the polls while other candidates […]

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Syria Civil War leaves Civilians with Water Cut-offs, Raw Sewage in Rivers

Syria Civil War leaves Civilians with Water Cut-offs, Raw Sewage in Rivers

By Kanya D’Almeida | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Caught in the grips of a summer heat-wave, in a season […]

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Human Rights
Jerusalem: Israeli forces, extremist Jews, storm Aqsa mosque compound

Jerusalem: Israeli forces, extremist Jews, storm Aqsa mosque compound

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces broke into Al-Aqsa mosque compound Sunday morning firing stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Muslim worshipers as they cleared […]

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Turkey's new "war on terror" mainly targeting Kurds

Turkey’s new “war on terror” mainly targeting Kurds

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – What was at first announced as a new Turkish turn toward attacks on Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) […]

Juan Cole

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Is this how the Establishment takes down Outsiders like Bernie Sanders?

Is this how the Establishment takes down Outsiders like Bernie Sanders?

Thom Hartmann | (Video report) | – – “Thom Hartmann shares about media coverage of a new Quinnipiac poll, but the coverage leaves out some […]

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Climate Change Dunnit: The Case of the missing Woolly Mammoths

By Chris Turney and Alan Cooper | (The Conversation) | – – Imagine a world populated by woolly mammoths, giant sloths and car-sized armadillos – […]

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Iran
Iraqis Divided on Iran Deal: Sunnis say, “The US sold us to Iran”

Iraqis Divided on Iran Deal: Sunnis say, “The US sold us to Iran”

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – While the rest of the world debates the merits of the Iranian nuclear deal, Iraqis are […]

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Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights

Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights

By Aruna Dutt | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 2015 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in Nairobi at […]

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