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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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Our Future vs. Neoliberalism

Our Future vs. Neoliberalism

( Code Pink) – In country after country around the world, people are rising up to challenge entrenched, failing neoliberal political and economic systems, with […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Environment
Plastic, plastic everywhere – airborne microplastics are settling into the most remote corners of the globe

Plastic, plastic everywhere – airborne microplastics are settling into the most remote corners of the globe

By Elvis Genbo Xu and Xiaoyu Duan | – Little pieces of plastic can now be found everywhere: from table salt, drinking water and food, […]

The Conversation

Batteries
How Sen. Manchin just Positioned Chinese Firms to dominate the Green Energy Markets of the 21st Century, Leaving the US in the Dust

How Sen. Manchin just Positioned Chinese Firms to dominate the Green Energy Markets of the 21st Century, Leaving the US in the Dust

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Coal baron Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has succeeded in blocking the part of President Biden’s Build Back Better […]

Juan Cole

BDS
Why Irish Novelist Sally Rooney refused to License her Work in Israel:  Apartheid treatment of Palestinians

Why Irish Novelist Sally Rooney refused to License her Work in Israel: Apartheid treatment of Palestinians

( Middle East Monitor) -The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
Climate Change Viewed from the Attic of the World:  A Himalayan Journey Toward Hope

Climate Change Viewed from the Attic of the World: A Himalayan Journey Toward Hope

By William deBuys | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Thirteen thousand feet high on the far side of the Himalaya mountains, we have entered the past […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Why activism needs to be part of any meaningful climate education

Why activism needs to be part of any meaningful climate education

By Nick Engelfried | – Last month, crowds of young people and supporters gathered in 1,500 locations around the world for one of the largest […]

Waging Nonviolence

African-Americans
"A Certain Hope Died:" How the White nationalist Republican Party used up Colin Powell, then Spit Him Out

“A Certain Hope Died:” How the White nationalist Republican Party used up Colin Powell, then Spit Him Out

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Colin Powell died on Monday, not long after his rival inside the Bush administration, Donald Rumsfeld. Both of them tore […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump

Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump

Oakland, CA. (Special to Informed Comment) – Maybe Republicans don’t know the historical significance of the swastika. Many don’t know the history of WWII. Thanks […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally

Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally

By Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan | – The Insurrection The Effort to Overturn the Election ( ProPublica) – As much as $3 million may […]

ProPublica

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