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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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Kanye West Offends Muslims by appropriating Angels of Death and Resurrection for his Sneaker Lines

Kanye West Offends Muslims by appropriating Angels of Death and Resurrection for his Sneaker Lines

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Muslim twittersphere was on fire this week with the news that Kanye West’s Adidas lines would offer two new […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers' Life Expectancy

The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers’ Life Expectancy

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – As summer comes to an end the economic news is strangely bipolar. Business Insider reported that From […]

John Buell

Democracy
Memorialize This!  Black Women organized for 19th Amendment, but did not get the Vote

Memorialize This! Black Women organized for 19th Amendment, but did not get the Vote

By Erin L. Thompson | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 26, 2020, Alice in Wonderland will get some company. She will be joined […]

Tomdispatch

Democratic Party
Biden's long foreign-policy record signals how he'll reverse Trump, rebuild old alliances and lead the pandemic response

Biden’s long foreign-policy record signals how he’ll reverse Trump, rebuild old alliances and lead the pandemic response

By Klaus W. Larres | – Even without a flashy virtual Democratic National Convention to formally introduce his presidential campaign, Joe Biden would be well […]

The Conversation

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Israel: Tens of Thousands Protest Netanyahu as Momentum Grows and Gov't Faces Collapse

Israel: Tens of Thousands Protest Netanyahu as Momentum Grows and Gov’t Faces Collapse

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-Palestinian newspaper Arab48 reports that tens of thousands of protesters came out against Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on […]

Juan Cole

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For First time in History Twelve US Billionaires Have a Combined $1 Trillion

For First time in History Twelve US Billionaires Have a Combined $1 Trillion

By Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo | – For the first time in U.S. history, the top twelve U.S. billionaires surpassed a combined wealth of […]

Inequality.org

Pentagon
Cluster bombs once against Vietnamese people and still in use today

Cluster bombs once against Vietnamese people and still in use today

( Joop) – On 4 March 1971 our train pulled in to Paris’s Gare du Nord station. My then husband Ab van Kammen and I […]

Anne-Ruth Wertheim

Democratic Party
How in the World did Americans make even a Pandemic Partisan? The Virus doesn't Care

How in the World did Americans make even a Pandemic Partisan? The Virus doesn’t Care

By Andrea Robbett and Peter Hans Matthews | – Politics can divide even friends and families. When this happens, we like to tell ourselves that […]

The Conversation

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Trump admits War Crime in Syria as Damascus Slams US 'Oil Theft'

Trump admits War Crime in Syria as Damascus Slams US ‘Oil Theft’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Last Monday, CNN reports US troops on patrol in eastern Syria were allowed to move through Syrian territory by the […]

Juan Cole

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