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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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Elon Musk's Battery for Solar Homes may Change Electric Utilities forever

Elon Musk’s Battery for Solar Homes may Change Electric Utilities forever

TomoNews | – “Tesla is developing a battery that can power homes with stored solar energy so that users do not need to draw power […]

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Iraq
Iraq: Sunni Sheikh Killed trying to Mediate between Shiite, Sunni Extremists

Iraq: Sunni Sheikh Killed trying to Mediate between Shiite, Sunni Extremists

By Erin Evers | (Human Rights Watch) In Latifiyya, a small town 20 miles south of Baghdad, fighting has been raging since long before the […]

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2 1/2 yrs after US Consulate Attack, Libyan Nat'l Army advances in Benghazi against Radicals

2 1/2 yrs after US Consulate Attack, Libyan Nat’l Army advances in Benghazi against Radicals

CCTV Africa | – “Footage from Benghazi showed troops, equipped with tanks, gun-mounted trucks and automatic weapons, advancing through farmland.” CCTV Africa: “Libya’s Army Makes […]

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al-Qaeda
Avenging its Christians, Egypt Bombs Libya in first formal Campaign since 1991

Avenging its Christians, Egypt Bombs Libya in first formal Campaign since 1991

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The murder by Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) thugs in Sirte, Libya, of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians this weekend […]

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Israel
Israel’s Obsession for Monopoly on Middle East Nuclear Power

Israel’s Obsession for Monopoly on Middle East Nuclear Power

By Thalif Deen | — UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) – As the Iranian nuclear talks hurtle towards a Mar. 24 deadline, there is renewed debate among […]

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Climate Change
iSolar!  Apple putting nearly $1 Bn into Solar Farm to Power Corporate Campus

iSolar! Apple putting nearly $1 Bn into Solar Farm to Power Corporate Campus

Bloomberg Business | — “Apple is embracing renewable energy with an $848 million commitment to obtain electricity from a solar farm that’s big enough to […]

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Antisemitism
Netanyahu urges Europe's Jews to move to Israel

Netanyahu urges Europe’s Jews to move to Israel

Euronews | – “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to this weekend’s deadly synagogue shooting in Copenhagen by urging European Jews to emigrate to Israel. […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan Wakes Up To Daesh/ ISIL Threat

Afghanistan Wakes Up To Daesh/ ISIL Threat

By Qadir Habib and Michael Scollon | (RFE/RL) – After consistently rejecting the idea, Kabul could no longer ignore what self-declared recruiters and fighters had […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
al-Qaeda's Feud with Denmark

al-Qaeda’s Feud with Denmark

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Denmark is a relatively small country, with a population of 5.7 million. But it is relatively wealthy, being […]

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