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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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America’s Coming Space Wars (McCoy)

America’s Coming Space Wars (McCoy)

Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch.com Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power It’s 2025 and an American “triple […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Why Bill O'Reilly is Wrong about Minorities 'Wanting Things" & the Election

Why Bill O’Reilly is Wrong about Minorities ‘Wanting Things” & the Election

Bill O’Reilly set the frame for an “angry white male” understanding of the bath Mitt Romney took at the polls Tuesday night, even before it […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama

Top Ten Wish List Progressives should Press on President Obama

President Obama’s reelection should mean more to progressives than simply dodging the bullet of a Romney presidency indebted to the Tea Party. Democratic politics has […]

Juan Cole

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Combining Wind Power And Electric Vehicles In Denmark (Video)

Combining Wind Power And Electric Vehicles In Denmark (Video)

On one of Denmark’s islands, locals are running their electric cars in some part off wind energy. This kind of arrangement is the only viable […]

Juan Cole

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Four Middle East crises will face the next President Immediately

Four Middle East crises will face the next President Immediately

American politics is mainly about domestic issues, and the presidential election season has caused a sort of black out of international news on US networks […]

Juan Cole

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Our way-too-Supersized Elections:  Engelhardt on BillMoyers.com (Video)

Our way-too-Supersized Elections: Engelhardt on BillMoyers.com (Video)

From BillMoyers.com: “Tom Engelhardt on Supersized Politics in the 2012 Election November 5, 2012 If we’ve learned anything from the 2012 race, it’s that American […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Coming Disasters: Romney’s America 2016

Top Ten Coming Disasters: Romney’s America 2016

What will the United States look like in 2016 if Mitt Romney wins? While predicting the future is of course impossible, actually my experience is […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Romney: “Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of Iran War” (Goulka)

Romney: “Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of Iran War” (Goulka)

Jeremiah Goulka writes at Tomdispatch: The Dogs of War Are Barking: Mitt Romney’s Team Wants to Let ‘Em Loose in Iran It’s the consensus among […]

Juan Cole

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Romney-Ryan: The Real Death Panel (Jamiol Cartoon)

Romney-Ryan: The Real Death Panel (Jamiol Cartoon)

By Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World

Juan Cole

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