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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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Is ISIL's 'Shock and Awe' more Awe-ful because One Victim?

Is ISIL’s ‘Shock and Awe’ more Awe-ful because One Victim?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) burning of a captured Jordanian pilot alive produced justified revulsion globally, resulting in […]

Juan Cole

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Paying the Piper: How America’s Iraq War haunts its Failed Syria Policy

Paying the Piper: How America’s Iraq War haunts its Failed Syria Policy

By Michael MacDonald, author of Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq | (Special to Informed Comment | – If recent reports in the New […]

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Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II

Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II

By Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation | — Well done, Team Internet. After a year of intense activism, we may have finally convinced the […]

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Palestinian Family must visit graves via tunnel under Apartheid Wall near Bethlehem

Palestinian Family must visit graves via tunnel under Apartheid Wall near Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians have suffered in many ways as a result of the Israeli separation wall, and in the case of one family in […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Why is Fox News Propagandist-in-Chief for ISIL/Daesh Atrocities?

Why is Fox News Propagandist-in-Chief for ISIL/Daesh Atrocities?

John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, and Desi Doyen | The Young Turks | – “Fox News has chosen to embed on its website the video of […]

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Angry Jordanian Crowds Rally over ISIL Murder of Pilot, but some blame US, King

Angry Jordanian Crowds Rally over ISIL Murder of Pilot, but some blame US, King

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Jordanian protesters came out in the thousands on Tuesday to protest the gruesome murder by Daesh (ISIL, ISIL) […]

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New Greek PM Tsipras: Israeli Brutality Against Palestinians Must End

New Greek PM Tsipras: Israeli Brutality Against Palestinians Must End

By IMEMC News & Agencies | – “The brutality Palestine is experiencing must end”, main opposition SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, during […]

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Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws on Fracking

Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws on Fracking

RT | – “Amid falling oil prices nationwide, energy industry players in North Dakota want officials to alter radioactive waste disposal laws so that more […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
What Really Caused the Paris Killings?  (Gilbert Achcar Interview)

What Really Caused the Paris Killings? (Gilbert Achcar Interview)

Gilbert Achcar/ Ahmed Shawki | (Socialist Worker) Interview: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS In the aftermath of the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris and […]

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