Thomas S. Karat
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The Usefulness of a Massacre (opens the original)
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by Thomas S. Karat | Oct 1, 2026 | 0 comments On Sunday morning, without notice, a private plane carried Benjamin Netanyahu out of Israel and into Abu Dhabi. Channel 12 broke the story while he was still on the ground. A day later both governments confirmed the meeting with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, calling it a conversation about bilateral relations. The Israeli account gave the errand away. Netanyahu had gone to ask the Emirati president to deny publicly a report that he had telephoned Netany
The Enemy the Alliance Needs (opens the original)
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by Thomas S. Karat | Sep 18, 2026 | 0 comments On the morning of August 6, near the coastal town of Furuvik, a Russian couple named Semyon Rusanov and Tatyana Milenina were declared a threat to the security of the Swedish state. They had lived in Spain for five years. They opposed the war in Ukraine. They had not set foot in Russia since 2022. They had a tent, fishing rods, and two tourist walkie-talkies, and they had camped within sight of the summer cottage used by the chief executive of an ar
Washington Is Underwriting the Proliferation It Went to War To Stop (opens the original)
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by Thomas S. Karat | Sep 8, 2026 | 0 comments The Trump administration sent Congress its civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. Asked what the deal permits, the president wrote: There will be no enrichment of material. His own Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, has said the opposite. The agreement gives Riyadh a pathway to enrich uranium on its own soil, and in doing so the potential for a Saudi nuclear Bomb. To placate fears Wright has put enrichment years down the road but not in
Baiting Turkey: Israel’s Strategy in Syria (opens the original)
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by Thomas S. Karat | Aug 31, 2026 | 0 comments The base at Abu al-Duhur had been dead for thirteen years. Wrecked in the Syrian war, out of service since 2012, its runways cratered and its hangars stripped, it sat in Idlib province about 60 kilometers from the Turkish border, useful to no air force. On the night of August 18 eight Israeli missiles fell on it. Israel said it had struck to stop Turkish troops from moving in. Six days before the strike, Israel had gone to Washington with the same w
The Two Terrorists: Britain Jails Tweets While the West Crowns al-Qaeda’s Man in Damascus (opens the original)
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by Thomas S. Karat | Aug 14, 2026 | 0 comments Two men, one word. Next Monday, at Kingston Crown Court in London, a 72-year-old grandfather goes on trial for terrorism; the evidence is a tweet of seven words, and the maximum sentence is 14 years. Nine months ago, a man who founded al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch and carried a $10 million American bounty on his head became the first Syrian head of state ever received at the White House. Tony Greenstein and Ahmed al-Sharaa have never met. Between them th
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