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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

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Iran
Qatar Press Condemns Hizbullah Intervention in Syria (Without Irony)

Qatar Press Condemns Hizbullah Intervention in Syria (Without Irony)

The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases reactions in the Qatari Arabic press to the Lebanese Shiite organization, Hizbullah, having successfully intervened in Syria […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Chinese Humorists Satirize the Snowden/ NSA Surveillance Scandal (Video)

Chinese Humorists Satirize the Snowden/ NSA Surveillance Scandal (Video)

Next Media Animation (a Taiwanese subsidiary of a Hong Kong firm) satirizes the Snowden/ NSA surveillance scandal by cartoon (English subtitles):

Juan Cole

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Sunni-Shiite Conflict Spikes as al-Qaeda Massacres 60 Shiites, Gulf States Sanction Hizbullah

Sunni-Shiite Conflict Spikes as al-Qaeda Massacres 60 Shiites, Gulf States Sanction Hizbullah

A massacre of Shiite militiamen and other villagers by al-Qaeda in Hatla, Deir al-Zor, Syria, is sending shock waves through the Middle East, which has […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Who you Call is Far more Revealing than what you Say: Landau on Gov’t Spying (Democracy Now!)

Who you Call is Far more Revealing than what you Say: Landau on Gov’t Spying (Democracy Now!)

Democracy Now! interviews Susan Landau, mathematician and former Sun Microsystems engineer, author of the book Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies. […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
NSA Leads come from others’ police work, not from data mining: the case of Headley (Rotella)

NSA Leads come from others’ police work, not from data mining: the case of Headley (Rotella)

Sebastian Rotella writes at ProPublica June 12: This story has been updated with NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander’s Senate testimony on surveillance. Defending a vast […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Sen. Rand Paul:  Snowden's 'Civil Disobedience' seeks "to defend the Fourth Amendment"

Sen. Rand Paul: Snowden’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ seeks “to defend the Fourth Amendment”

Sen. Rand Paul pushes back against the National Security Agency and its massive surveillance of telephone records, in an interview with Jake Tapper of CNN. […]

Juan Cole

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You are the Terrorist (Video)

You are the Terrorist (Video)

“You are the Terrorist” German with English subtitles; chilling.

Juan Cole

Turkey
Learning the Wrong Lessons from Tahrir Square:  Erdogan Assaults Taksim in bid to break up Protests

Learning the Wrong Lessons from Tahrir Square: Erdogan Assaults Taksim in bid to break up Protests

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday launched an assault on the demonstrators in Taksim Square. It was a puzzling and desperate act, which threatened […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Government Endangered us with Foreign Quagmires; it’s the Bradley Mannings that might keep us safe (Madar)

The Government Endangered us with Foreign Quagmires; it’s the Bradley Mannings that might keep us safe (Madar)

Chase Madar writes at Tomdispatch.com The prosecution of Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks’ source inside the U.S. Army, will be pulling out all the stops when it calls […]

Juan Cole

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