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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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Iran Talks Down to the Wire:  Diplomatic Breakthrough or Prelude to War?

Iran Talks Down to the Wire: Diplomatic Breakthrough or Prelude to War?

By Jasmin Ramsey | — WASHINGTON (IPS) – A final deal on Iran’s nuclear programme wouldn’t only make non-proliferation history. It would also be the […]

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Barack Obama
Top 6 Achievements of Obamacare: (Hint, millions more insured)

Top 6 Achievements of Obamacare: (Hint, millions more insured)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare) has beaten back all judicial challenges, it is […]

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Why Boycotting Israel will Backfire, just as Netanyahu's Blockade of Gaza Has

Why Boycotting Israel will Backfire, just as Netanyahu’s Blockade of Gaza Has

By Guy Laron | (Informed Comment) | – – Many people who support a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict believe that the Boycott, Divestment […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
As Kobane comes under ISIL attack, Kurds Encircle, cut off “caliphate”

As Kobane comes under ISIL attack, Kurds Encircle, cut off “caliphate”

By Amy Austin Holmes | (Informed Comment) | – – (Kobane, Syria) The liberation of Kobane in late January led to jubilant celebrations almost everywhere. […]

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censorship
Journalists Pay the Price in Egypt’s Crackdown on Dissent

Journalists Pay the Price in Egypt’s Crackdown on Dissent

By Kitty Stapp | – – NEW YORK (IPS) – The Egyptian government is holding a record number of journalists in jail, a press freedom […]

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Barack Obama
Top Five ways for Washington to Fail in Iraq

Top Five ways for Washington to Fail in Iraq

By Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In one form or another, the U.S. has been at war with Iraq since 1990, including […]

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Constitution
America's Homegrown Extremists Twice as Deadly as Muslim Radicals

America’s Homegrown Extremists Twice as Deadly as Muslim Radicals

AJ+ | (Video report) | – “Homegrown groups with no connection to Islam have killed almost twice as many people as Muslim groups, according to […]

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Climate Change
Humans Causing the Sixth Great Extinction of other Life Forms, on which we Depend

Humans Causing the Sixth Great Extinction of other Life Forms, on which we Depend

By Gerardo Ceballos | (The Conversation) | – – Vitus Bering, the famous explorer, led perhaps the most ambitious scientific expedition ever in the 1730s. […]

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African-Americans
If Southerners want a Symbol, Why not the Moultrie Liberty Flag?

If Southerners want a Symbol, Why not the Moultrie Liberty Flag?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | — There was a rash of Confederate flag removals on Wednesday. The governor of Alabama had it removed […]

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