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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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The White House Meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon: How Trump turned the American Dream into the American Scream

The White House Meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon: How Trump turned the American Dream into the American Scream

( Tomdispatch.com) – Honestly, if you had described this America to me more than half a century ago, I would have laughed in your face. […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Residents of Misafer Yatta -- Being Slowly Ethnically Cleansed by Israel --- take Refuge in Caves

Residents of Misafer Yatta — Being Slowly Ethnically Cleansed by Israel — take Refuge in Caves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli usurpation of nine Palestinian hamlets of Misafer Yatta near Hebron has driven some of the residents to shelter […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iranian Women’s Rights Activists face new online Threats

Iranian Women’s Rights Activists face new online Threats

By Azin Mohajerin and Sussan Tahmasebi | – ( Globalvoices.org) – In May 2022, dozens of Instagram pages belonging to Iranian women’s rights activists received […]

Global Voices

Food Security
Hunger is increasing worldwide but Women bear the Brunt of Food Insecurity

Hunger is increasing worldwide but Women bear the Brunt of Food Insecurity

By Carol Richards, Queensland University of Technology; and Rudolf Messner, Queensland University of Technology | – Recent UN data on food insecurity paints a bleak […]

The Conversation

Agriculture
Climate Emergency Hits German Farms as Harvests Remain Meager

Climate Emergency Hits German Farms as Harvests Remain Meager

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The ongoing drought in Germany is expected to have dire effects on this year’s […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Pakistan: Climate Emergency-Driven, biblical Floods affect 33 million People Leave Millions Homeless

Pakistan: Climate Emergency-Driven, biblical Floods affect 33 million People Leave Millions Homeless

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Heavy flooding in southern Pakistan has destroyed or damaged 670,000 homes, according to Reliefweb. During an ordinary monsoon season in […]

Juan Cole

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Will 2022 Mark the Turning Point in the Climate Crisis?

Will 2022 Mark the Turning Point in the Climate Crisis?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) Over the last six months, the world took a giant step backward in its efforts to address the current climate […]

John Feffer

Bill of Rights
The Real Cancel Culture:  Anti-Palestinianism and the Crisis of American Free Speech

The Real Cancel Culture: Anti-Palestinianism and the Crisis of American Free Speech

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The firing of Palestinian American woman, Natalie Abulhawa, has sparked a debate over free-speech, […]

Middle East Monitor

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Ukraine War being Fought around Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant:  What could Possibly Go wrong?

Ukraine War being Fought around Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant: What could Possibly Go wrong?

By Najmedin Meshkati, University of Southern California | – Russian forces occupy Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in the Ukrainian […]

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