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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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Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Morocco more Forward-Looking on Green Energy than Mitt Romney (Film)

Desertec and Morocco’s future as a solar and wind energy powerhouse. Or, how veiled young Moroccan Muslim women engineers are more clear-eyed about the future […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (472) “Wine, you are my insane sweetheart”

Omar Khayyam (472) “Wine, you are my insane sweetheart”

       Wine, you are                       my insane                […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Israel Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack to start war with Iran

Israel Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack to start war with Iran

Israel lobby flack Patrick Clawson strategizes how to trick the United States into going to war against Iran on behalf of Israel. The ‘Washington Institute […]

Juan Cole

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On How Despite the Currency Crisis Iran’s State Revenues are not Collapsing

On How Despite the Currency Crisis Iran’s State Revenues are not Collapsing

The steep decline of the Iranian rial against the dollar has produced a lot of extravagant claims about the collapse of the Iranian economy. While […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Extreme Oil: Costly, Dirty and Dangerous (Klare)

Extreme Oil: Costly, Dirty and Dangerous (Klare)

Michael T. Klare writes at Tomdispatch.com: The New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities By Michael T. Klare […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (284) “God is merciful: Here, have some wine”

Omar Khayyam (284) “God is merciful: Here, have some wine”

I staggered, drunk, outside a bar last night and saw a tipsy older man emerge,  a bottle slung across his shoulder; and I said to him, […]

Juan Cole

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Lyon:  CNN censored Ahmadinejad, engaged in War Propaganda

Lyon: CNN censored Ahmadinejad, engaged in War Propaganda

Amber Lyon, Emmy-award-winning journalist who has worked for CNN, alleges to RT that the network left out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls for peace and […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran Bazaar Strikes signal Misery, not Sanctions 'Victory'

Iran Bazaar Strikes signal Misery, not Sanctions ‘Victory’

On Wednesday, the Tehran covered bazaar was closed, and the traditional market in some other cities such as Mashhad also went on strike, with demonstrators […]

Juan Cole

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Omar Khayyam (2) “Who brought you here?”

Omar Khayyam (2) “Who brought you here?”

Tonight, who  brought you, drunk, here to me? From behind the curtain,  who brought you here?– to someone who was on fire because of your […]

Juan Cole

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