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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?
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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?

Dan Steinbock

On October 7, 2023 – two years ago – the Hamas-led offensive was portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11” that came out of the blue. This assumption […]

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:18

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18

10/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

10/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses

Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses

Human Rights Watch – (Washington, DC) – The United States will be complicit in the Israeli government’s grave violations in Gaza so long as it […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza’s Water Infrastructure, deliberately destroyed by Israel, Desperately needs to be Rebuilt

Gaza’s Water Infrastructure, deliberately destroyed by Israel, Desperately needs to be Rebuilt

Thousands of Palestinians have died because of Israeli efforts to choke off Gaza’s water supply. Immediate aid — and long-term infrastructure repairs — are essential […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

China
Moonbases and Solar Arrays: Will China win the Space Race as Musk’s DOGE cripples NASA?

Moonbases and Solar Arrays: Will China win the Space Race as Musk’s DOGE cripples NASA?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The irrational, ignorant and often plain stupid cuts that rogue DOGE operatives of Elon Musk are making to the US […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Gaza Genocide and the Unravelling of US Hegemony

The Gaza Genocide and the Unravelling of US Hegemony

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s war on Gaza has shattered whatever illusions remained about the strength of US […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump

By Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen | – ( ProPublica ) – In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, […]

ProPublica

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Proem:  The Trauma of Gaza Scholasticide

Proem: The Trauma of Gaza Scholasticide

  We are closed in, and the key is turnedon our uncertainty…We had fed the heart on fantasies,the heart’s grown brutal from the fare,more substance […]

Hugh J. Curran

Iraq
What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and Why does it still affect the Middle East Today?

What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and Why does it still affect the Middle East Today?

By Andrew Thomas, Deakin University (The Conversation) – Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Beating Trump, Dumping Trump (It can be Done)

Beating Trump, Dumping Trump (It can be Done)

By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In bad times — and these are bad times — I call up the spirit of Willie. Willie […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Sinai! Why Egypt’s al-Sisi says he will snub White House Invitation if Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza is on Agenda

Sinai! Why Egypt’s al-Sisi says he will snub White House Invitation if Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza is on Agenda

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egypt has shown more spunk in standing up to Trump than has the mostly supine US Congress. Offered the most […]

Juan Cole

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