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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

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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US Ally Bahrain's Courts are Corrupt, in service of Injustice

US Ally Bahrain’s Courts are Corrupt, in service of Injustice

Human Rights Watch A police officer in Bahrain who kills a protester in cold blood or beats a detainee to death might face a sentence […]

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Democracy
Press Freedom is the Issue, not Glenn Greenwald's Personality

Press Freedom is the Issue, not Glenn Greenwald’s Personality

By Barry Eisler via Freedom of the Press Foundation: One of the most fascinating aspects of Glenn Greenwald’s journalism is the way it provokes various […]

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Bush-Cheney Committed War Crimes: Terrorism Czar

Bush-Cheney Committed War Crimes: Terrorism Czar

Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! has an exclusive interview: ” Exclusive: Bush Committed War Crimes Says Ex-Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke” Excerpt: Amy Goodman: “Do you think […]

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Crime
Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)

Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)

By Juan Cole NBC News’s Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow on Wednesday night. But then Mr. Williams followed it up with a panel […]

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Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews

Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews

A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion. Click here for the rest […]

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Maya Angelou: 'Still I Rise' (video)

Maya Angelou: ‘Still I Rise’ (video)

Poet Maya Angelou dies at 86. Maya Angelou reads ‘Still I Rise’

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Climate Change
Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past

Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past

Posted on 27 May 2014 by howardlee The link between rapid climate changes and mass extinctions has been strengthened in a recent paper by Jourdan et al in “Geology.” The authors demonstrate that the extraordinarily huge volcanic eruptions of the…

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China
The NSA Effect:  China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware

The NSA Effect: China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has urged its banks to stop using servers built by IBM because it believes that they might be used for espionage. According to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, the People’s Bank of China and the Chinese Ministry of Finance…

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Constitution
"Joe the Plumber": "Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights."

“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.”

“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.” (via The Political Carnival) “Joe the Plumber” (Sam Wurzelbacher, the not-plumber), wrote the following […]

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