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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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If Trump's Steampunk History of Revolutionary War Airbases isn't Grounds for Impeachment, What is?

If Trump’s Steampunk History of Revolutionary War Airbases isn’t Grounds for Impeachment, What is?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Suhauna Hussain at the LA Times reviews Trump’s fragile grasp of history, from his Revolutionary War airports to his Revolutionary […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Former Revolutionary Guards Chief Says Iran Should Consider Talking To Trump

Former Revolutionary Guards Chief Says Iran Should Consider Talking To Trump

( RFE/RL) – Amid escalating tensions with the United States and mounting sanctions pressuring Iran’s economy, a former senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Iran
Iranians are not our Enemies: Can Public Diplomacy Work?

Iranians are not our Enemies: Can Public Diplomacy Work?

When foreign policy as we know it isn’t working, creative citizen diplomacy can step in to humanize the real people who would be most impacted by war.

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Change
Vanishing Tropical Rainforests are the Lungs of our Planet: We can Still Save them (and Ourselves)

Vanishing Tropical Rainforests are the Lungs of our Planet: We can Still Save them (and Ourselves)

By Robin Chazdon | The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown. […]

The Conversation

Sudan
As Sudan Crowds Demand Civilian Rule, Was Al-Bashir's Overthrow just another Military Coup?

As Sudan Crowds Demand Civilian Rule, Was Al-Bashir’s Overthrow just another Military Coup?

By Khalil Charles | @khalilcharles | – According to well-informed sources, on the night of 22 February this year, as the invited guests in Sudan’s […]

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
Atrocity: American Concentration Camps for Immigrant Children

Atrocity: American Concentration Camps for Immigrant Children

By By Lizet Ocampo | – Children are suffering and dying. Enough is enough. By Lizet Ocampo | July 3, 2019 Over the past several […]

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Climate Change
What Happens when Climate Emergency Drowns Whole Nations?

What Happens when Climate Emergency Drowns Whole Nations?

By Sarah M. Munoz | – Global climate change is endangering small island countries, many of them developing nations, potentially harming their ability to function […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
Israel Systematically Hiding Documents Proving Expulsion, Oppression of Palestinians

Israel Systematically Hiding Documents Proving Expulsion, Oppression of Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hagar Shezaf at the Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz [“The Land”], reveals that a secretive Israeli agency has been systematically […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Can Trump's Impending War on Iran be Stopped?

Can Trump’s Impending War on Iran be Stopped?

Eric Stoner | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Since coming to power, the Trump administration has had Iran in its crosshairs. The United States unilaterally […]

Waging Nonviolence

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