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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

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Isolation and Opioids During the Pandemic

By Mattea Kramer | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – In our new era of nearly unparalleled upheaval, as a pandemic ravages the bodies of some and […]

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Arctic Heat Wave:  Block of Ice Twice as Big as Manhattan breaks off Greenland's largest Ice Shelf, goes into Ocean

Arctic Heat Wave: Block of Ice Twice as Big as Manhattan breaks off Greenland’s largest Ice Shelf, goes into Ocean

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A 42 square mile block of ice has just hived off from the Arctic’s largest ice shelf, in northeast Greenland, […]

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Yemen: Aid Obstruction Puts Millions of Children and Adults at Risk

Yemen: Aid Obstruction Puts Millions of Children and Adults at Risk

(Human Rights Watch) – The Houthi armed group and other authorities are severely restricting the delivery of desperately needed aid in Yemen, Human Rights Watch […]

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Earth may Pass dangerous 1.5℃ (2.7° F.) Heating Limit for First time by 2024

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In Praise of Public Debt

In Praise of Public Debt

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Even as California burns, the states of the Gulf of Mexico brace for another hurricane, a global […]

John Buell

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Gullible Trump was manipulated by Netanyahu’s Deep Fake Video of Mahmoud Abbas to Cut off Palestinians

Gullible Trump was manipulated by Netanyahu’s Deep Fake Video of Mahmoud Abbas to Cut off Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Haaretz reports that Rage, Bob Woodward’s new book due out tomorrow, reports that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu manipulated Donald […]

Juan Cole

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This Is a Climate Emergency. We Need More Than Half-Measures from Democrats

This Is a Climate Emergency. We Need More Than Half-Measures from Democrats

By Basav Sen | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – From dere­chos in Iowa to duel­ing hur­ri­canes in the Gulf Coast, 2020 is promis­ing […]

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Ending the Pentagon’s Pandemic of Spending

Ending the Pentagon’s Pandemic of Spending

By Mandy Smithberger | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) -The inadequate response of both the federal and state governments to the Covid-19 pandemic has had a […]

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Attacking even the Study of Slavery History, Trump is Running for President of White Nationalists

Attacking even the Study of Slavery History, Trump is Running for President of White Nationalists

By Henry Giroux | – In what appears to be a blatant appeal to the white supremacists in his base, President Donald Trump has made […]

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