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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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Combating Honor Killings among Kurds: Is a New kind of Education Needed?

Combating Honor Killings among Kurds: Is a New kind of Education Needed?

(Special to Informed Comment) – Four women were victims of honor killings during the week of February 17, 2022 in Iraqi Kurdistan. The following week, […]

Alex Poppe

Feminism
International Women's Day: Evolution and Challenges

International Women’s Day: Evolution and Challenges

By Hatice Nur Keskin | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Proclaimed by the UN in 1975, International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global […]

Middle East Monitor

Democracy
Economic sanctions may deal fatal blow to Russia’s already-weak domestic opposition

Economic sanctions may deal fatal blow to Russia’s already-weak domestic opposition

By Brian Grodsky, University of Maryland, Baltimore County | – The West has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by imposing harsh economic sanctions. Most […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
America's Allies Accept the Pain of Cutting off Russia, Except for Israel

America’s Allies Accept the Pain of Cutting off Russia, Except for Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reported on Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s three-hour meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday. […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
How Zelenskyy emerged as the antithesis of Putin and proved you don’t need to be a strongman to be a great leader

How Zelenskyy emerged as the antithesis of Putin and proved you don’t need to be a strongman to be a great leader

By Michael Blake, University of Washington | – Whatever happens in the coming weeks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will go down as the face of Ukrainian […]

The Conversation

China
Would a “Cold” War Be the Best News Around?  Ukraine, Taiwan, and Other Flashpoints in a New Age of Geopolitics

Would a “Cold” War Be the Best News Around? Ukraine, Taiwan, and Other Flashpoints in a New Age of Geopolitics

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been widely described as the beginning of a new cold war, much like the old one […]

Michael T. Klare

Climate Crisis
Harvard study links fracking to early death risk for seniors

Harvard study links fracking to early death risk for seniors

By Laureen Fagan: ( Sustainability Times) – Most people know it as fracking, a process of drilling for gas and oil using methods like hydraulic […]

Sustainability Times

Climate Crisis
EVs are Freedom Cars:  When you Fill up your Car with Gasoline, you're Helping Putin Destroy Ukraine

EVs are Freedom Cars: When you Fill up your Car with Gasoline, you’re Helping Putin Destroy Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Alex Mills writes that Russia produces 11 million barrels a day of petroleum and in 2021 exported 7.5 million barrels […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Let's Go after the Ill-Gotten, Tax-Evading Gains of All Oligarchs, not just Russian Ones

Let’s Go after the Ill-Gotten, Tax-Evading Gains of All Oligarchs, not just Russian Ones

( Inequality.org ) – Can we please get serious about taxing the rich? Polls show that hefty majorities of people in the United States — […]

Sam Pizzigati

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