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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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Barack Obama
Who really defeated the Islamic State – Obama/Biden or Trump/Pence?

Who really defeated the Islamic State – Obama/Biden or Trump/Pence?

By Brian Glyn Williams | – One common claim by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has been that his administration beat IS, or what’s formally […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
The United States of Paranoia — From the Salem Witch Hunt to Conspirator-in-Chief Donald Trump

The United States of Paranoia — From the Salem Witch Hunt to Conspirator-in-Chief Donald Trump

By Steve Fraser | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – News is “faked”; elections are “rigged”; a “deep state” plots a “coup”; Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Change
Amy Coney Barrett:  You can't actually be pro-life if you deny burning Fossil Fuels causes the Climate Emergency; Denialism is Mass Murder

Amy Coney Barrett: You can’t actually be pro-life if you deny burning Fossil Fuels causes the Climate Emergency; Denialism is Mass Murder

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amy Coney Barrett is a denialist when it comes to the human-caused climate emergency. Rachel Koning Beals at Marketwatch notes […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
If it is Tuesday, this must be Occupied Palestine: Tourism in the Service of Israeli Colonialism

If it is Tuesday, this must be Occupied Palestine: Tourism in the Service of Israeli Colonialism

By Halah Ahmad | – ( Al-Shabakah) – Tourism has been critical to the Zionist enterprise since the first Zionists settled Palestine. Al-Shabaka policy analyst […]

Al-Shabaka

Islamophobia
How Islamophobia drove the Reception of the poorly fact-checked 'Caliphate' Broadcast

How Islamophobia drove the Reception of the poorly fact-checked ‘Caliphate’ Broadcast

By Fahad Ahmad | – On Sept. 25, the RCMP arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, a Muslim man, for allegedly fabricating his affiliation with the Islamic State […]

The Conversation

Tunisia
Will Tunisia, the only Success of the Arab Spring, be Ruined by a Police Protection Bill?

Will Tunisia, the only Success of the Arab Spring, be Ruined by a Police Protection Bill?

By Rima Sghaier | – ( Global Voices ) – As the Tunisian parliament considers a controversial police protection bill, protests erupted in the city […]

Global Voices

censorship
Khashoggi's Ghost: World Resoundingly rejects Saudi membership on UN Human Rights Council

Khashoggi’s Ghost: World Resoundingly rejects Saudi membership on UN Human Rights Council

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sulayman Hajj Ibrahim writes in the London pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-`Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] that Saudi Arabia’s bid to join the […]

Juan Cole

Campaign Finance
Election 2020 sees record $11 billion in campaign spending, mostly from a handful of super-rich donors

Election 2020 sees record $11 billion in campaign spending, mostly from a handful of super-rich donors

By Richard Briffault | – Total spending in the 2020 federal elections is projected to set a new record of almost US$11 billion by November. […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Trump’s Art of the Arms Deal:  Filling up the Volatile Middle East with High-Tech Weapons

Trump’s Art of the Arms Deal: Filling up the Volatile Middle East with High-Tech Weapons

( Tomdispatch.com) – The United States has the dubious distinction of being the world’s leading arms dealer. It dominates the global trade in a historic […]

William D. Hartung

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