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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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Obama: US will Continue its Targeted Killing with Drones (Woods)

Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Barack Obama has made it clear that the US will continue with its controversial targeted killing […]

Juan Cole

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Big Oil’s Hit Men have a Contract to Whack the Earth (Engelhardt)

Big Oil’s Hit Men have a Contract to Whack the Earth (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com: We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide.  And one for the conscious […]

Juan Cole

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Sen. Inhofe: "When a Disaster Occurs in America... Everyone ... wants to pour Money on'em"

Sen. Inhofe: “When a Disaster Occurs in America… Everyone … wants to pour Money on’em”

From last fall: Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma argues against relief aid for Hurricane Sandy, in part because working on it in the Senate would […]

Juan Cole

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Rafsanjani's Exclusion from Iran's Presidential Race a Sign of Creeping Totalitarianism

Rafsanjani’s Exclusion from Iran’s Presidential Race a Sign of Creeping Totalitarianism

Iran’s Guardian Council startled that country when it announced that Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president (1989-1997) who was among the founders of the Islamic […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Oklahoma: We Feel for you, we love you, but do us some favors

Dear Oklahoma: We Feel for you, we love you, but do us some favors

The immense, mindless violence of a tornado hitting a small Oklahoma town, turning houses into splinters and crushing people under rubble, including children, has rightfully […]

Juan Cole

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PBS and the Koch Brother Scandal (plus "Koch Brothers Exposed")

PBS and the Koch Brother Scandal (plus “Koch Brothers Exposed”)

PBS declined to show “Citizen Koch, a documentary about the Wisconsin public union issue, treating the influence of the dirty energy magnates who are destroying […]

Juan Cole

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Israel, Syria, Trade Fire, Threats in Golan Heights

Israel, Syria, Trade Fire, Threats in Golan Heights

The Increasingly desperate Baath regime in Syria appears to be seeking skirmishes with Israel as a way of shoring up its nationalist credentials. If the […]

Juan Cole

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Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria (Cole @ Truthdig)

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria (Cole @ Truthdig)

My column is out at Truthdig, looking at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s muscular new role in the Eastern Mediterranean and Syria: Excerpt: “Even as Damascus […]

Juan Cole

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How America Became a Third World Country (Kramer & Comerford)

How America Became a Third World Country (Kramer & Comerford)

Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford write at Tomdispatch: The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. […]

Juan Cole

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