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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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Climate Crisis
Portugal Opens Floating Solar Array on Europe's Largest Artificial Lake as Floatovoltaics Expand Globally

Portugal Opens Floating Solar Array on Europe’s Largest Artificial Lake as Floatovoltaics Expand Globally

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Europe’s high methane gas prices caused in part by the Russian war on Ukraine are hurting consumers even in countries […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Will Israel be held accountable? In conversation with the new UN Special Rapporteur in Palestine

Will Israel be held accountable? In conversation with the new UN Special Rapporteur in Palestine

By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The position of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of […]

Ramzy Baroud

Bill of Rights
Is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Spying on Most Americans?

Is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Spying on Most Americans?

By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Growing up in the Southern California suburbs, government surveillance never worried me. But my Syrian-American parents […]

OtherWords

Agriculture
5 technologies that will help make the food system carbon neutral

5 technologies that will help make the food system carbon neutral

By Rene Van Acker, University of Guelph; Evan Fraser, University of Guelph; and Lenore Newman, University of The Fraser Valley | – Globally, about one-third […]

The Conversation

Belgium
Dumping Russian Gas: 4 European countries seek 65 GW Offshore Wind by 2030, as EU Pledges $314 bn. for Green Energy

Dumping Russian Gas: 4 European countries seek 65 GW Offshore Wind by 2030, as EU Pledges $314 bn. for Green Energy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anyone who follows the climate emergency and extreme weather events would think the serial catastrophes of the past couple years […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Republican Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Fuels Extremist Violence like the Racist Massacre in Buffalo

Republican Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Fuels Extremist Violence like the Racist Massacre in Buffalo

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – “All race politics is bad, all race politics is poison — it erases people, it dehumanizes them. Race politics […]

Dan Dinello

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: 2022 Drought in Western US the Harbinger of a hotter, thirstier Atmosphere

Climate Emergency: 2022 Drought in Western US the Harbinger of a hotter, thirstier Atmosphere

By Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado Boulder | – Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early […]

The Conversation

Feminism
Where Are the Men?   No More Bystander Boys in the Post-Roe Era

Where Are the Men? No More Bystander Boys in the Post-Roe Era

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – For 50 years now, people have told desperate, heart-breaking stories about what it was like to […]

Tomdispatch

Bush
George W. Bush denounces "the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of  Iraq -- I mean, Ukraine"

George W. Bush denounces “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean, Ukraine”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Michael Williams at the Dallas Morning News reports on George W. Bush’s speech at his presidential center at Southern Methodist […]

Juan Cole

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