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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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The Senate’s Make-Believe Trial of Donald Trump

The Senate’s Make-Believe Trial of Donald Trump

(Otherwords.org) – In my 40 years as a lawyer, I’ve never seen a trial flout the basic requirements for fairness so brazenly. By Mitchell Zimmerman […]

OtherWords

Climate Crisis
We Can’t Stop what We Can’t Visualize: How We can Get our Minds around the Climate Crisis

We Can’t Stop what We Can’t Visualize: How We can Get our Minds around the Climate Crisis

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The climate crisis suffers from an odd contradiction. The seriousness of the issue is not matched by […]

John Buell

Bernie Sanders
On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders is the Only one who Can Save America

On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders is the Only one who Can Save America

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Generations of orators have told the story that if you put a frog in a pan of steaming water it […]

Juan Cole

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Trump's Middle East 'vision' is a disaster that will only make things worse

Trump’s Middle East ‘vision’ is a disaster that will only make things worse

By Tony Walker< | - US President Donald Trump’s “vision” for Israelis and Palestinians is not a realistic peace plan to end a decades-old conflict. […]

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How the Trump Administration is Moving us Closer to Nuclear Midnight

How the Trump Administration is Moving us Closer to Nuclear Midnight

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, saw something shocking on his computer. […]

Michael Slager

Children
The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump: Billionaires Are Soaring, Poor Kids Are Losing More

The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump: Billionaires Are Soaring, Poor Kids Are Losing More

By Rajan Menon | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – The plight of impoverished children anywhere should evoke sympathy, exemplifying as it does the suffering of the […]

Rajan Menon

Donald Trump
In Humiliating Rebuke, Arab League and Palestine Slap Down Kushner Plan, as Palestine severs all Relations with US and Israel

In Humiliating Rebuke, Arab League and Palestine Slap Down Kushner Plan, as Palestine severs all Relations with US and Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Palestine president Mahmud Abbas announced Saturday that he has informed the Israeli government and the Trump […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Apartheid Deal of the Century

The Apartheid Deal of the Century

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Trump “deal of the century” is nothing if not predictable. The product of a small group of Orthodox […]

Jeff Halper

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It is All Right for Journalists to Call Denials of the Climate Crisis what they are: Lethal Falsehoods

It is All Right for Journalists to Call Denials of the Climate Crisis what they are: Lethal Falsehoods

By Denis Muller | – In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking […]

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