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No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids
Archaeology

No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids

Juan Cole

As for Israelites, there is no archeological evidence of them being in Egypt, much less being enslaved.

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Climate Tipping Points Close In: Scientists urge radical Action before it’s too Late

Climate Tipping Points Close In: Scientists urge radical Action before it’s too Late

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Veterans Day, Moral Injury and the the Guinea Worm Parable

Veterans Day, Moral Injury and the the Guinea Worm Parable

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Ilan Pappe’s book ‘Ten Myths About Israel’ challenges the Propaganda Campaign

Ilan Pappe’s book ‘Ten Myths About Israel’ challenges the Propaganda Campaign

By Mohammed Salem ( Middle East Monitor There is an urgent need to counter the Israeli propaganda that is “repeated endlessly in the media, enforced […]

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Israel’s Netanyahu: An Oliver Cromwell for our Times

Israel’s Netanyahu: An Oliver Cromwell for our Times

“When plunder [and dispossession]  becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves […]

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Apartheid
Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars

Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars

By Peter Greste, Macquarie University | – (The Conversation) – Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a […]

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Old Forests are Essential for Slowing Climate Change: Prohibit Logging Them!

Old Forests are Essential for Slowing Climate Change: Prohibit Logging Them!

By Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University | – (The Conversation) – Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won't cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won’t cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports on the press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening of Prime Minister Binyamin […]

Juan Cole

Middle East
Ukraine as a Global Economic War, and the Role of the Middle East

Ukraine as a Global Economic War, and the Role of the Middle East

Review of Maximilian Hess, “Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West” (London: Hurst & Co., 2023). Barcelona (Special to Informed […]

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Far Right
Our World-Historical Turning Point – Kairos – is Now, and Everything Depends on the Youths

Our World-Historical Turning Point – Kairos – is Now, and Everything Depends on the Youths

( Tomdispatch.com) – “All Americans owe them a debt for — if nothing else — releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that […]

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America's Theater of the Absurd Election:  Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros

America’s Theater of the Absurd Election: Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 1968, the Youth International Party nominated a pig named Pigasus for president; in 2024, the Republican Party […]

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Houthi
US Officials Care More about Protecting Oil Tankers than Palestinians

US Officials Care More about Protecting Oil Tankers than Palestinians

By Edward Hunt | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – While Israel continues its military offensive in Gaza, the United States is directing […]

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