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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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Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid: The United States and Israel

Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid: The United States and Israel

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a […]

Aviva Chomsky

Biodiversity
The Earth and Human Beings must Be Saved Together

The Earth and Human Beings must Be Saved Together

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A postcard I use as a bookmarker contains a set of principles for gardening in urban soils […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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Climate Breakdown makes Atmosphere Thirstier, Worsens Droughts

Climate Breakdown makes Atmosphere Thirstier, Worsens Droughts

By Solomon Gebrechorkos, University of Oxford (The Conversation) – Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe. But it’s not just changing rainfall […]

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Illegal and Immoral: Israel’s Kidnapping of Greta Thunberg and the Madleen Aid Ship on the High Seas

Illegal and Immoral: Israel’s Kidnapping of Greta Thunberg and the Madleen Aid Ship on the High Seas

By Adnan Hmidan ( Middle East Monitor ) – Once again, the so-called “most moral army in the world” flexes its muscle, not against a […]

Middle East Monitor

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In New Low, Israel’s Netanyahu has Recklessly allied with ISIS in Gaza

In New Low, Israel’s Netanyahu has Recklessly allied with ISIS in Gaza

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – The world’s most poorly kept secret is that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) is escalating his state-sponsored […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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Gov. Newsom asks Trump to Withdraw Troops from Los Angeles and Protests Intensify

Gov. Newsom asks Trump to Withdraw Troops from Los Angeles and Protests Intensify

By Nigel Duara, Jeanne Kuang and Sergio Olmos, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. ( CalMatters ) – […]

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Is Nuclear Winter a Climate Issue?

Is Nuclear Winter a Climate Issue?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse […]

Norman Solomon

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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad

A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad

Book Review – Osamah F. Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

By Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Hospitals. Schools. Shelters. Those are some of the places […]

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