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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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Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk

Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – Yemen’s armed conflict and humanitarian crisis is resulting in unspeakable suffering for millions of civilians despite increasing […]

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump
The Trump Organized-Crime Style: Bullying Europe, Bullying Iran and  Impeached for Bullying Ukraine

The Trump Organized-Crime Style: Bullying Europe, Bullying Iran and Impeached for Bullying Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was for my sins watching CNN the other evening and as I remember I saw Chris Cuomo on a […]

Juan Cole

China
Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses

Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – The 2020 Iowa Caucuses will take place on Monday, February 3, 2020, as the first official nominating contest […]

Xiaodong Fang

Climate Crisis
Hot Blob: Worst Ocean Heatwave on Record just Killed 1 Million Seabirds in N. Pacific

Hot Blob: Worst Ocean Heatwave on Record just Killed 1 Million Seabirds in N. Pacific

By Tim Birkhead | – The common guillemot (known as the common murre in North America) breeds in both the Pacific and the Atlantic and […]

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Congress
The War Powers Act isn't Restraining the President: Congress Must de-Fund Wars

The War Powers Act isn’t Restraining the President: Congress Must de-Fund Wars

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – By any measure, the War Powers Act has failed to constrain presidential warmaking. A simpler step would be to stop […]

Harry Blain

Climate Crisis
Earth's Hottest Decade on Record:  Scientists Underestimated CO2 Heating Juggernaut

Earth’s Hottest Decade on Record: Scientists Underestimated CO2 Heating Juggernaut

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to the BBC, NOAA, NASA and the UK Met Office have all certified that the decade of the 2010s […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
With Trump's Iran Attack Abroad, Iranian-Americans and Muslim-Americans are Unfairly Targeted at Home

With Trump’s Iran Attack Abroad, Iranian-Americans and Muslim-Americans are Unfairly Targeted at Home

Irvine, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – A day under the Trump Administration typically consists of angry tweets, an absurd amount of misinformation, and reckless […]

Aliyya Zahidi

Donald Trump
Trump tried to divide Iranian Public from Regime, but 86% of Iranians are Negative toward US

Trump tried to divide Iranian Public from Regime, but 86% of Iranians are Negative toward US

By Monti Datta | – After the Trump administration killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani with a drone strike on Jan. 3, anti-American protests in Iran […]

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Israel/ Palestine
The Real Reasons for the Israeli Race to Annex the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan Valley

The Real Reasons for the Israeli Race to Annex the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan Valley

By Nasser Nasser | – ( Middle Est Monitor) – We are witnessing the “annexation of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley” fever and […]

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