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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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As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)

As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)

Recycled WMD charges: From Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

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How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)

How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)

Tom Giesen writes in a guest column at Informed Comment The option to avoid 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) of global warming – our […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes:  Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim

Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes: Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim

Pope Francis on Maundy Thursday declined to address enormous crowds. Instead he went to a prison to emulate Jesus’s act of humility before his crucifixion […]

Juan Cole

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Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Yet again, researchers have found that there is no link between vaccines and autism. It is a myth, a hysteria, and a dangerous one, since […]

Juan Cole

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Carter: Guinea Worm parasite on verge of being wiped out (Cenk Uygur)

Carter: Guinea Worm parasite on verge of being wiped out (Cenk Uygur)

Cenk Uygur interviews former president Jimmy Carter concerning his imminent complete eradication of the deadly guinea worm: This extremely impressive achievement of Carter and his […]

Juan Cole

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If Guns were as Regulated as Cars . . . (Poster)

If Guns were as Regulated as Cars . . . (Poster)

h/t Allvoices

Juan Cole

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Amnesia or Cowardice? American Anniversaries we’d Rather Forget  (Engelhardt)

Amnesia or Cowardice? American Anniversaries we’d Rather Forget (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com It’s true that, last week, few in Congress cared to discuss, no less memorialize, the 10th anniversary of the invasion of […]

Juan Cole

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Dear President Obama:  Let’s Help Yemen instead of Droning It

Dear President Obama: Let’s Help Yemen instead of Droning It

This is a [pdf] letter to President Obama pleading for a substantial rethink of Yemen policy in his second term, which I among other Middle […]

Juan Cole

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Mopping up with Muslim Sharia  (Colbert Report)

Mopping up with Muslim Sharia (Colbert Report)

Among all of the obsessions of the Red States, the fixation on the danger of Muslim law (sharia) taking over the United States is the […]

Juan Cole

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