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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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Nancy Pelosi Admits That Congress Is Frightened of The CIA

Nancy Pelosi Admits That Congress Is Frightened of The CIA

Over the past few months, one thing we keep hearing over and over again from defenders of the intelligence community is that everything is under control and “legal” because Congress has powerful oversight. We’ve shown, repeatedly, how that’s something…

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Global Warming has made Greenland Ice Sheet unstable, increasing Sea Rise (Plus Spectacular Video)

Global Warming has made Greenland Ice Sheet unstable, increasing Sea Rise (Plus Spectacular Video)

Warming melts last stable edge of Greenland icesheet (via AFP) The last edge of the Greenland ice sheet that had resisted global warming has now […]

Juan Cole

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Mapping Palestine in the Struggle for Palestine

Mapping Palestine in the Struggle for Palestine

(By Andrew Beale) Map of Palestine from late 19th century. (Flickr/T.H. McAllister) Lior Amihai didn’t grow up knowing the location of the internationally recognized border […]

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al-Qaeda
As Putin recognizes Crimea, his other Client, Syria, Goes on the Offensive

As Putin recognizes Crimea, his other Client, Syria, Goes on the Offensive

(By Juan Cole) Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a geopolitical roll these days, despite US and EU sanctions against some of his closest associates. […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Celebs to UN: Protect Palestinian Refugees in Syria (Alfonso Cuaron, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Sting & 25 Others)

Celebs to UN: Protect Palestinian Refugees in Syria (Alfonso Cuaron, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Sting & 25 Others)

Celebrities press UN on Palestinian refugees in Syria (via AFP) Some 30 celebrities have petitioned the UN demanding they take action to protect civilians, notably […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Iraq's Freedom Agenda shouldn't Include Child Marriage and Summary Divorce

Iraq’s Freedom Agenda shouldn’t Include Child Marriage and Summary Divorce

(Human Rights Watch) (Baghdad) – Iraq’s Council of Ministers should withdraw a new draft Personal Status Law and ensure that Iraq’s legal framework protects women […]

Juan Cole

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Has Consumerism forever Killed the American Revolutionary Spirit?

Has Consumerism forever Killed the American Revolutionary Spirit?

(By Lewis Lapham) [This essay will appear in “Revolution,” the Spring 2014 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the […]

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Crimea Vote provokes fear of Domino Effect in Eurasia: Turkish FM

Crimea Vote provokes fear of Domino Effect in Eurasia: Turkish FM

(By Juan Cole) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Sunday warned that Crimea’s referendum on seceding from Ukraine pose the threat of a “domino effect” […]

Juan Cole

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BP Permitted back into The Gulf Despite all the Damage Done

BP Permitted back into The Gulf Despite all the Damage Done

(By Sarah Lazare) Four years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil still washes up on the Gulf Coast shore, and residents and cleanup workers face […]

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