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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 […]

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:18

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18

10/06/2025 By Juan Cole

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

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Dear Sen. Anning re: Mosque Shooting:  The  Qur’an Forbids Murder and Commands Peacemaking

Dear Sen. Anning re: Mosque Shooting: The Qur’an Forbids Murder and Commands Peacemaking

the servants of the All-Merciful who walk humbly upon the earth—and when the unruly taunt them, they reply, ‘Peace!’

Juan Cole

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Christchurch Mosque Shootings must End Unconcern with Right-wing Terrorism

Christchurch Mosque Shootings must End Unconcern with Right-wing Terrorism

I looked at what some New Zealanders were saying online. It did not take long to discover the presence of hateful and anti-Muslim comments

The Conversation

Climate Change
Millions of Children Globally Skipped School to Protest Elders’ Climate Denialism, Destruction of their Future

Millions of Children Globally Skipped School to Protest Elders’ Climate Denialism, Destruction of their Future

By AFP bureaux | – Montreal (AFP) – Classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin and Lagos to London emptied as organizers of the student […]

AFP

Donald Trump
Trump Dismisses White Nationalism Threat after N. Zealand Killings

Trump Dismisses White Nationalism Threat after N. Zealand Killings

Brian Levin, director at the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said that the problem could not be more real

AFP

Donald Trump
New Zealand: Is Trumpism now replacing ISIL as a major Cause of Stochastic Terrorism?

New Zealand: Is Trumpism now replacing ISIL as a major Cause of Stochastic Terrorism?

This phenomenon of white nationalists inspired to violence by Trump is hardly new or unusual

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
White Supremacist Gang Massacres Innocent Muslims in N. Zealand; PM: The Muslim Victims "are us"

White Supremacist Gang Massacres Innocent Muslims in N. Zealand; PM: The Muslim Victims “are us”

Christchurch (AFP) – The mosques were packed with worshippers gathering for Friday afternoon prayers, and members of the Bangladesh cricket team were arriving when the […]

AFP

Syria
The Syrian Civil War Exiled Millions and Produced ISIL; But how did it Start?

The Syrian Civil War Exiled Millions and Produced ISIL; But how did it Start?

Demonstrations often began at mosques not because they were led by Islamic extremists, but because mosques were the only place where people could legally gather

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Can Global Youth Revolt force the Trump Generation to tackle Climate Crisis?

Can Global Youth Revolt force the Trump Generation to tackle Climate Crisis?

One of these days, we might even have an actual national debate about global heating

Tomdispatch

Bernie Sanders
In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen

In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen

Thousands of children have starved and 16 million persons are food insecure in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis

Juan Cole

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