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 […]
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How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism
By Luis Edel Abreu Veranes | – From the turbulent 1970s ( Middle East Monitor) – With its geographic centrality on the Asian continent, Afghanistan […]
Will Israel’s Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jack Khoury and Noa Shpigel report at Haaretz that the Israeli government is advancing a marijuana bill that may gain […]
Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?
By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since 1979, when Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held American […]
Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars
( Tomdispatch.com ) – For decades, I kept a poster on my wall that I’d saved from the year I turned 16. In its upper […]
Can the Collapse of West Antarctica’s Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?
By Dan Lowry, Mario Krapp, and Nick Golledge | – ( The Conversation) – Rising seas are already making storm damage more costly, adding to […]
Sordid Advantage: America can’t avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t […]
The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War
( Tomdispatch.com) – This summer we witnessed, with brutal clarity, the Beginning of the End: the end of Earth as we know it — a […]
After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?
By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( GlobalVoices.org) – Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 during the first Karabakh war in a show of […]
How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize
By Arvind Magesan | – Applied economists spend a large fraction of their time trying to squeeze meaningful answers — causal effects — out of […]
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