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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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Saudis and CIA agree to Arm Syrian “Moderates” with Advanced Anti-aircraft and Anti-tank Weapons

Saudis and CIA agree to Arm Syrian “Moderates” with Advanced Anti-aircraft and Anti-tank Weapons

Saudis and CIA agree to Arm Syrian Moderates with Advanced Anti-aircraft and Anti-tank Weapons by Joshua Landis The news that the “Saudis Agree to Provide […]

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Saudi Valentines elude Puritan Morals Police

Saudi Valentines elude Puritan Morals Police

(Via AFP) Saudi Valentines defy the love police (via AFP) Red roses lurk hidden in flower shop back rooms and heart-shaped chocolates are sold under […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Beyond the disappointment of Marines:  What's Really going on in Fallujah?

Beyond the disappointment of Marines: What’s Really going on in Fallujah?

(By Mustafa Habib) NIQASH visits Fallujah and finds a city in flux. While armed militias control the city and the Iraqi army stands guard outside, […]

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Human Rights
Descent into Bigotry: 21st Century Americans increasingly negative toward Muslims, Minorities

Descent into Bigotry: 21st Century Americans increasingly negative toward Muslims, Minorities

(By Charles Kurzman via IslamiCommentary) Islamic terrorism has proved to be a relatively small threat to public safety in America since 9/11. Isolated individuals have […]

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Climate Change
More Solar Workers in US than Coal Miners, and Solar doesn't Poison Drinking Water

More Solar Workers in US than Coal Miners, and Solar doesn’t Poison Drinking Water

(By Juan Cole) By the end of 2013, the number of workers in the solar energy industry in the US had grown to 143,000. About […]

Juan Cole

Africa
CAR Muslims Risk Ethnic Cleansing:  What if Thousands of Christians were forced out of a Muslim Country?

CAR Muslims Risk Ethnic Cleansing: What if Thousands of Christians were forced out of a Muslim Country?

(By Juan Cole) The Central African Republic has a population of 4.5 million, about 15 percent of them Muslim, or about 670,000 people. Those Muslims […]

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censorship
Sen. Al Franken:  Comcast-NBC / Time Warner Merger Concentrates Media, Hurts Consumers

Sen. Al Franken: Comcast-NBC / Time Warner Merger Concentrates Media, Hurts Consumers

CNN: “Sen. Franken: We need more cable competition” Karl Bode writes in a similar vein at TechDirt: Comcast: Allowing Us To Get Immensely, Inconceivably, Ridiculously […]

Juan Cole

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Donkeys on the Nile:  The Egyptian Gov't's Problem with Journalists

Donkeys on the Nile: The Egyptian Gov’t’s Problem with Journalists

(By Jonathan Moremi) “While Cairo was exploding, Egypt’s State TV aired pictures of a donkey pulling its cart peacefully along the banks of the river […]

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Climate Change
Game Over for Earth:  Big Carbon's Fatal, Scorching Triumph over Greens

Game Over for Earth: Big Carbon’s Fatal, Scorching Triumph over Greens

(By Michael T. Klare) Listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address, it would have been easy to conclude that we were slowly but […]

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