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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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US-Backed Al-Sisi's Gov't in Egypt Unjustly Sentences Dissidents to Years in Prison for "Spreading False News"

US-Backed Al-Sisi’s Gov’t in Egypt Unjustly Sentences Dissidents to Years in Prison for “Spreading False News”

( Human Rights Watch – An emergency court sentenced Alaa Abd al Fattah to five years in prison, and Mohamed al-Baqer and Mohamed “Oxygen” Ibrahim […]

Human Rights Watch

Carbon Footprint
Don’t care about the Build Back Better Act? Hearing People’s personal Stories might change that

Don’t care about the Build Back Better Act? Hearing People’s personal Stories might change that

By Angela Bradbery | – When U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said that he wouldn’t support President Joe Biden’s signature Build Back Better Act, he […]

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Climate Crisis
Revenge is a Dish best Served Green:  Biden could get around Manchin with GOP Senators Supporting Wind, Solar, Battery

Revenge is a Dish best Served Green: Biden could get around Manchin with GOP Senators Supporting Wind, Solar, Battery

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senator Joe Manchin has attempted completely to shoot down the Build Back Better bill, underlining the thin legislative margin with […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Is the Return of Dictatorship in Tunisia the end of the Arab Spring Youth Movements?

Is the Return of Dictatorship in Tunisia the end of the Arab Spring Youth Movements?

By Yosr Jouini | – ( Globalvoices.org) – On July 25, 2021, Tunisian President-elect Kais Said announced the dismissal of the prime minister, a freeze […]

Global Voices

Environment
Biden, Infrastructure Law in Hand, Will at Last replace all Poisonous Lead Water Pipes from Coast to Coast

Biden, Infrastructure Law in Hand, Will at Last replace all Poisonous Lead Water Pipes from Coast to Coast

By Gabriel Filippelli | – The Biden administration has released a plan to accelerate removal of lead water pipes and lead paint from U.S. homes. […]

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Environment
Let's de-commercialize Christmas this Year and give our Kids the Gift of a Liveable Earth

Let’s de-commercialize Christmas this Year and give our Kids the Gift of a Liveable Earth

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Confession time: this year, I don’t want to buy my kids anything for Christmas. Big one, right? Okay, let me soften […]

Frida Berrigan

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Israeli Squatter-Settler Mobs attack Palestinian Hamlets, wrecking Cars and Homes and Hospitalizing 2

Israeli Squatter-Settler Mobs attack Palestinian Hamlets, wrecking Cars and Homes and Hospitalizing 2

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Quds reports that on Saturday, Israeli squatter-settler mobs assembled outside Palestinian hamlets in the suburbs of Nablus, near the settlement […]

Juan Cole

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In First, the US Congress has Voted to Combat Islamophobia: What implications for Biden's Foreign Policy?

In First, the US Congress has Voted to Combat Islamophobia: What implications for Biden’s Foreign Policy?

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Judging by this week’s close vote on combating Islamophobia, and sensational revelations by a […]

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African-Americans
bell hooks will never Leave Us – She lives on through the Truth of her Words

bell hooks will never Leave Us – She lives on through the Truth of her Words

By Karsonya Wise Whitehead | – I was introduced to the work of bell hooks for the first time when I was 14 years old, […]

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