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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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NASA's Launch Pads menaced by Sea Level Rise it is Charged to Monitor

NASA’s Launch Pads menaced by Sea Level Rise it is Charged to Monitor

Sea level rise forces US space agency to retreat (via AFP) Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA’s launch pads and multi-billion dollar […]

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Dissent
Iran "Happy" Video Arrestees out on Bail but Pharrell Cover goes Viral

Iran “Happy” Video Arrestees out on Bail but Pharrell Cover goes Viral

Iran frees ‘Happy’ video dancers on bail (via AFP) Six young Iranians arrested for dancing on rooftops to US singer Pharrell Williams’ hit “Happy” in […]

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Civil Rights
Historian who Made History: Vincent Harding, Civil Rights Pioneer and King Confidant

Historian who Made History: Vincent Harding, Civil Rights Pioneer and King Confidant

(By Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence) Historian by profession and relentless nonviolent advocate by calling, Vincent Gordon Harding died on Monday, May 19, at the age […]

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Egypt
Top 5 Wars on Religious Extremism in Today's Muslim World

Top 5 Wars on Religious Extremism in Today’s Muslim World

The Fox News commentators who say that the Muslim world is not doing enough to police its own extremist movements don’t actually seem to be […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
If Senate's Phony Journalist "Shield Law" wouldn't Protect a Glenn Greenwald what Good is It?

If Senate’s Phony Journalist “Shield Law” wouldn’t Protect a Glenn Greenwald what Good is It?

Back in March, we pointed out that Senator Chuck Schumer had more or less admitted that his attempt at a media shield law (protecting sources) likely wouldn’t protect Glenn Greenwald. While Schumer argued that it was still “better than current law,”…

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censorship
The BuSSy Monologues in Egypt:  I will pinch your ass and grab your boobs, and you can't talk about it:

The BuSSy Monologues in Egypt: I will pinch your ass and grab your boobs, and you can’t talk about it:

(By Sondos Shabayek) “You can’t go on stage and say this,” the state-owned theater director told me.   “How do you suggest I say it […]

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Apartheid
Israel Accused of War Crime over Army "Execution" of Innocent Palestinian Teens

Israel Accused of War Crime over Army “Execution” of Innocent Palestinian Teens

(By Lauren McCauley) According to rights group Defense for Children International — Palestine, which obtained and circulated the security camera footage, Nadeem Siam Nawara, 17, […]

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Censors
When the McCarthyites tried to Ban “Robin Hood” as a Communist; and the Green Feather Movement

When the McCarthyites tried to Ban “Robin Hood” as a Communist; and the Green Feather Movement

(By Alison Kysia) On November 13, 1953, during the height of the McCarthy era, Robin Hood and his band of “merry outlaws” made headlines. Mrs. […]

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The Obama Effect?  Are Iran/ Saudi-and-GCC no longer on a war footing?

The Obama Effect? Are Iran/ Saudi-and-GCC no longer on a war footing?

(By Juan Cole) There are signs of a diplomatic thaw between Iran and the Arab oil monarchies of the Gulf. It has just been announced […]

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