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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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Even Lindsey Graham is Terrified Trump will drag us into War with Iran

Even Lindsey Graham is Terrified Trump will drag us into War with Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hawkish Republican senator Lindsey Graham tried to talk Trump out of his assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani last winter, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
1 in 4 New Cars  in Europe will be Electric by 2025 - Study

1 in 4 New Cars in Europe will be Electric by 2025 – Study

( Clean Energy Wire) – One in four cars produced in Europe in 2025 will be fully electric, a study by the Chemnitz Automotive Institute […]

Clean Energy Wire

Internet
A message to Big Tech search engines and social media platforms – Put Palestine on the map

A message to Big Tech search engines and social media platforms – Put Palestine on the map

By Yousef Alhelou | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Over a million people have signed a petition since July calling on Google to recognise […]

Middle East Monitor

Iran
Secular Shift: In Iran's Islamic Republic, do only 40% even Consider themselves Muslims?

Secular Shift: In Iran’s Islamic Republic, do only 40% even Consider themselves Muslims?

By Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki | – Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency Overdrive: Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon is Evacuated, California Burns and Louisiana Sinks

Climate Emergency Overdrive: Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon is Evacuated, California Burns and Louisiana Sinks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is astonishing to me that we still have 287 million gasoline vehicles on our roads and that 20 percent […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Covid Lies: Why Your life Hangs on the Deranged Whims of One Man

Covid Lies: Why Your life Hangs on the Deranged Whims of One Man

A Declaration of Independence from Donald Trump

Martin Powers

Donald Trump
It's a Hawk!  It's a Dove!  It's Donald Trump, playing both sides against the Middle

It’s a Hawk! It’s a Dove! It’s Donald Trump, playing both sides against the Middle

( 48hills.org) – President Donald Trump has convinced Republican isolationists and hawks that he supports their views. That’s a neat trick, since the two groups […]

Reese Erlich

Christianity
Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

By Adrian Bardon | – U.S. Christians, especially evangelical Christians, identify as environmentalists at very low rates compared to the general population. According to a […]

The Conversation

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Top 4 reasons Trump's Saving "ass" of Bin Salman over Khashoggi Murder is Shameful and just Wrong

Top 4 reasons Trump’s Saving “ass” of Bin Salman over Khashoggi Murder is Shameful and just Wrong

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sonam Sheth and John Haltiwanger at Business Insider have seen Bob Woodward’s Rage, which will be published next Tuesday. They […]

Juan Cole

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