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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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Plutocracy
Jared Kushner is Poster Boy for Elite Universities' Pay to Play Scandal

Jared Kushner is Poster Boy for Elite Universities’ Pay to Play Scandal

Kushner gained admission to Harvard University in 1998 after his father made a legal $2.5 million donation to the school

AFP

Egypt
What do Lonely Hearts Columns tell us about Social Crises in the Arab World?

What do Lonely Hearts Columns tell us about Social Crises in the Arab World?

On one side, they had to project strict enough observance to compete with the radicals, while on the other they were careful not to offend

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Israel/ Palestine
The Year of the People: The Untold Story of Gaza’s ‘March of Return’

The Year of the People: The Untold Story of Gaza’s ‘March of Return’

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza did not risk their lives over the last year simply because they required urgent medicine and food supplies

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
Could the Climate Crisis Spark a Global Financial Meltdown Worse than 2008?

Could the Climate Crisis Spark a Global Financial Meltdown Worse than 2008?

We must broaden our conversations to include the increasing integration of insurance and finance

The Conversation

Archaeology
Dear Tucker Carlson:  Iraqis Invented Civilization and, like, Literacy when "White Men" were Painting themselves Blue

Dear Tucker Carlson: Iraqis Invented Civilization and, like, Literacy when “White Men” were Painting themselves Blue

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tucker Carlson has been playing David Duke with a northeast accent and bow tie for some years, but in radio […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters Uproot Dozens of Olive Trees in Palestinian Nablus

Israeli Squatters Uproot Dozens of Olive Trees in Palestinian Nablus

Israel has been “using the land as its own: robbing land, exploiting the area’s natural resources for its own benefit”

Maan News Agency

CIA
In Blow to Democracy, Trump ends Requirement that CIA report Drone Strike Casualties

In Blow to Democracy, Trump ends Requirement that CIA report Drone Strike Casualties

Trump increasingly relies on the CIA, rather than the military, for lethal drone operations

AFP

Yemen
Saudi-Led Bombardment of Yemen kills 22, including Children, wounds 30

Saudi-Led Bombardment of Yemen kills 22, including Children, wounds 30

Huthis accused the coalition of “deliberately committing… this massacre,”

AFP

Drone Warfare
School Shootings and Drone Wars: America's Invisible Ways of Violence

School Shootings and Drone Wars: America’s Invisible Ways of Violence

The U.S. military and CIA drones that regularly terrorize, maim, and kill civilians, are the equivalents of the disturbed shooters

Tomdispatch

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