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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 […]

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

09/19/2025 By Juan Cole

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

09/19/2025 By Tomdispatch

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A House Divided: America's new Civil Wars

A House Divided: America’s new Civil Wars

By Andrea Mazzarino | – When it rains, pieces of glass, pottery, and metal rise through the mud in the hills surrounding my Maryland home. […]

Tomdispatch

Corruption
Every Day is Memorial Day: The Trump Virus has killed as Many Americans as Died in Combat in the 4 Years of the Civil War

Every Day is Memorial Day: The Trump Virus has killed as Many Americans as Died in Combat in the 4 Years of the Civil War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has helped kill 200,000 Americans. The US has 4% of the world’s population but about 21% of its deaths. […]

Juan Cole

Banking
ODNI Blamed Syrian Banks, but Did the West's Deutsche Bank Facilitate ISIL Finances in Mosul?

ODNI Blamed Syrian Banks, but Did the West’s Deutsche Bank Facilitate ISIL Finances in Mosul?

By Hala Nouhad Nasreddine | – ( Middle East Monitor) The Islamic State’s infamous rule over vast areas of Iraq during 2014 and 2016 not […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Climate Trumpnado in the West: Fire and Fury Like the World Has Never Seen

Climate Trumpnado in the West: Fire and Fury Like the World Has Never Seen

( Tomdispatch.com) – It was August 2017 and Donald Trump had not yet warmed up to Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s portly dictator. In fact, in […]

Tom Engelhardt

Archaeology
Prehistoric Arabia Felix: As Humans exited Africa 120K years ago, they headed into Green Nefud

Prehistoric Arabia Felix: As Humans exited Africa 120K years ago, they headed into Green Nefud

By Richard Clark-Wilson | – Humanity originated on the African continent at least 300,000 years ago. We know from fossil evidence in southern Greece and […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
No, Iran is not near having a Nuke:  Trump source tries Iraq Big Lie Playbook on Reuters, The Independent

No, Iran is not near having a Nuke: Trump source tries Iraq Big Lie Playbook on Reuters, The Independent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration is running the same scam on the public that George W. Bush & Co. ran on Iraq […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The Many Ugly Faces of Climate Science Denial

The Many Ugly Faces of Climate Science Denial

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – In the midst of a global pandemic forest fires now take unprecedented area of West Coast real […]

John Buell

Epidemics
Beware Corporate COVID Propaganda

Beware Corporate COVID Propaganda

( Otherwords.org ) – CEOs say they’re cutting their own pay in solidarity with laid off or hurting workers — only, not really. By Jim […]

Jim Hightower

Inequality
Stop Profiteering on Misery: Private Prisons must be ended Now

Stop Profiteering on Misery: Private Prisons must be ended Now

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Every state should follow California’s outstanding example by ending the obscene system of private prisons and privately-run immigration […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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