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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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Saudi Arabia
Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files

Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files

By Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – This is one of the uncomfortable questions raised by the newly declassified Clinton files. […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Stunning Doubling of Severe Natural disasters in past 20 Years, many driven by Climate Emergency

Stunning Doubling of Severe Natural disasters in past 20 Years, many driven by Climate Emergency

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction issued a report today concluding that natural disasters caused by the human […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Plot to kidnap Michigan's governor grew from the militia movement's toxic mix of constitutional falsehoods and half-truths

Plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor grew from the militia movement’s toxic mix of constitutional falsehoods and half-truths

By John E. Finn | – The U.S. militia movement has long been steeped in a peculiar – and unquestionably mistaken – interpretation of the […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Can Trump's Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?

Can Trump’s Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans promoting the backlash against the federal government […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

France
Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

By Chris Myant ( OpenDemocracy.net) – In the small Provençal town of Aups, where the local Catholic church declares République française: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité [The […]

Open Democracy

Donald Trump
Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an "arrogant cancer on ... democracy" - Rudd

Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an “arrogant cancer on … democracy” – Rudd

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has called for the break up of his country’s media monopolies (almost all major […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will

Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What is at stake in the battle over the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett? For most commentators […]

John Buell

Authoritarianism
Patriotism, American Style: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Patriotism, American Style: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sacramento, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – What is Patriotism? Let’s begin with the difficult part: defining and understanding patriotism. Patriotism refers to the feelings […]

Bahman Fozouni

Donald Trump
Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick:  The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy

Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick: The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 21st, six nuclear-capable B-52H Stratofortress bombers, representing approximately one-seventh of the war-ready U.S. B-52H bomber fleet, flew from their […]

Michael T. Klare

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