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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 […]

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

How Trump is Demolishing U. S. Global Power and its World Order

How Trump is Demolishing U. S. Global Power and its World Order

10/06/2025 By Alfred W. McCoy

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Pentagon
Goodbye to All That: The Forever Wars Go on Without Me

Goodbye to All That: The Forever Wars Go on Without Me

I’m active now in what little there is of an antiwar movement in this country

Danny Sjursen

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Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return

Israeli Snipers Kill 4, wound 207 as 40,000 Palestinians March Peacefully in Gaza for Right to Return

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As an unprecedented 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza marched for the right to return, marking the one-year anniversary of the beginning […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn't Tell you That

Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn’t Tell you That

Climate change is likely to cause a disproportionate increase in heavy precipitation events in the Midwest, a trend that is already apparent

The Conversation

Democratic Socialism
Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism

Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism

Conservative demagogues aim to scare you into embracing their pro-plutocrat agenda as the only tolerable choice

OtherWords

Arab World
Arab World Warms to Russia after Trump gives Syria's Golan to Israel

Arab World Warms to Russia after Trump gives Syria’s Golan to Israel

“We appreciate the Russian position on the Jerusalem and Golan files. This position is consistent and based on the need to abide by international law, norms and standards.”

Middle East Monitor

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75% of Scotland's Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032

75% of Scotland’s Electricity Now Green; & All Cars Electric by 2032

Scotland is also doing groundbreaking research and development on wave and tidal energy

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Ocean Heat hits Record High, in Bad News for Planet

Ocean Heat hits Record High, in Bad News for Planet

The thermal expansion — water swelling as it warms — is expected to raise sea levels 12 inches

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
After Israeli Army Injures 30,398 Palestinian Protesters in Gaza, Rights Groups Call on UN to Protect Them

After Israeli Army Injures 30,398 Palestinian Protesters in Gaza, Rights Groups Call on UN to Protect Them

The UN failed to take action to prevent the killings and massive suppression of peaceful Palestinian protesters along Gaza’s borders

Maan News Agency

Nuclear Energy
As Trump OKs Saudi Nuclear Projects, Rep. Sherman replies: “If you can’t trust a regime with a bone-saw . . .”

As Trump OKs Saudi Nuclear Projects, Rep. Sherman replies: “If you can’t trust a regime with a bone-saw . . .”

Saudi Arabia has not sought a so-called Section 123 assuring peaceful use of technology.

AFP

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