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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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Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran;  Iraq declines

Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran; Iraq declines

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US secretary of state Mike Pompeo made a surprise four-hour visit to Baghdad on Tuesday in connection to the panic […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Gets all the Goodies, Palestinians Screwed: First-ever Reveal of ‘Deal of the Century’ Details

Israel Gets all the Goodies, Palestinians Screwed: First-ever Reveal of ‘Deal of the Century’ Details

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The main points of the United States’ anticipated Middle East peace plan, the so-called “Deal of the Century,” were revealed by a […]

Maan News Agency

Mass Extinction
We are about to drive 1 million species to extinction w/out a Revolution in our relationship with Nature

We are about to drive 1 million species to extinction w/out a Revolution in our relationship with Nature

The report reveals the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem function is much less on lands managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities

The Conversation

Pentagon
Boondoggle, Inc.: Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget

Boondoggle, Inc.: Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget

By William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In its latest budget request, the Trump administration is asking for a […]

William D. Hartung

Donald Trump
300 Former Prosecutors: Multiple Felony Counts of Obstruction against Trump in Mueller Report

300 Former Prosecutors: Multiple Felony Counts of Obstruction against Trump in Mueller Report

STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS (Medium.com) – We are former federal prosecutors. We served under both Republican and Democratic administrations at different levels of the […]

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Gaza Palestinians and Israelis Wounded Past Year by the Numbers: 31,691 v. 250

Gaza Palestinians and Israelis Wounded Past Year by the Numbers: 31,691 v. 250

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The reporting on the fighting between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israelis the past few days, as usual, has […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Don't Even Bother:  Why Trump's Israel-Palestine "Deal" is Dead on Arrival

Don’t Even Bother: Why Trump’s Israel-Palestine “Deal” is Dead on Arrival

By Dov Waxman | – Dead on arrival. That’s what almost every expert predicts will be the fate of the Trump administration’s long-awaited peace plan […]

The Conversation

Inequality
The Reality for the Middle Classes behind the supposedly "Surging" U.S. Economy

The Reality for the Middle Classes behind the supposedly “Surging” U.S. Economy

The black unemployment rate remains more than twice as high as the rate for whites and it has increased from 6.5% in April 2018

Inequality.org

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Warmongers Bolton & Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation

Warmongers Bolton & Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Uber warmongerers John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, somehow the National Security Adviser and Secretary of State of the United States, […]

Juan Cole

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