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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?
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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?

Dan Steinbock

On October 7, 2023 – two years ago – the Hamas-led offensive was portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11” that came out of the blue. This assumption […]

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:18

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18

10/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

10/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Congress Obsessed with American Muslims, Neglects real threat of White Supremacists

Congress Obsessed with American Muslims, Neglects real threat of White Supremacists

The shooting of Kaufman, Texas district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia remains a mystery. But investigators are increasingly looking into a cell of […]

Juan Cole

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Eyeless in Gaza: When will Israel let its People Go?

Eyeless in Gaza: When will Israel let its People Go?

Israeli war planes struck the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel has roughly 7.5 million people, Gaza roughly 1.7 million. Israel bombed and destroyed Gaza’s […]

Juan Cole

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How the Pentagon Helped Make Afghanistan the Most Corrupt Country on Earth (Hiro)

How the Pentagon Helped Make Afghanistan the Most Corrupt Country on Earth (Hiro)

Dilip Hiro writes at Tomdispatch.com Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely […]

Juan Cole

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Syrian Revolution even Bloodier in March, with record 6000 Dead

Syrian Revolution even Bloodier in March, with record 6000 Dead

Syrian dissidents say that some 6,000 people died in Syria in March, the largest one-month toll since the movement to overthrow the Baathist regime of […]

Juan Cole

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Egyptian Comedian Bassem Youssef on Kafkaesque Interrogation (CNN Video)

Egyptian Comedian Bassem Youssef on Kafkaesque Interrogation (CNN Video)

Bassem Youssef tells Christiane Amanpour about the 5-hour Kafkaesque interrogation he underwent after being summoned by the prosecutor-general. The humorless prosecutors essentially made a montage […]

Juan Cole

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Jim Carrey:  Fox 'News' is "A media colostomy bag... a public health issue" (Video)

Jim Carrey: Fox ‘News’ is “A media colostomy bag… a public health issue” (Video)

Comedian Jim Carrey has hit back at Fox Cable News for its campaign of defamation in the wake of his release of a video parodying […]

Juan Cole

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Why this and not that?  America’s topsy turvy priorities

Why this and not that? America’s topsy turvy priorities

Why this and not that? I don’t understand my own country much of the time. For instance, in his first major public speech after resigning […]

Juan Cole

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Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)

Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)

Ira Chernus writes at Tomdispatch.com Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt’s War on Satire:  Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart

Egypt’s War on Satire: Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart

I have long held that the worst thing about religious fundamentalism is that it is humorless. And, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is proving me right. […]

Juan Cole

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