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Yemen: Houthis’ Widespread, Arbitrary Detentions of Political Opponents
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Houthi authorities have detained dozens of political opponents since July 2025, including the leaders of several political parties in Yemen, […]
Syrian FM: Israel’s deadly Incursion against Islamic Group a ‘War Crime’ after 13 killed
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli military forces made a raid into Syria on Friday that from what I can gather turned into a disaster […]
A 40-year Fight against Cluster Bombs offers Lessons to stop the US-Israel Weapons Pipeline
The Honeywell Project in Minneapolis showed how to beat a weapons maker: obstruct operations, recruit workers as allies, build camaraderie and persist no matter what. […]
Vanishing Future? The Arab World Faces 2x Global Heating, Corruption and High Tech Divide
By Jasim Al-Azzawi ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Arab world is standing at a precipice. Climate change is accelerating at twice the global […]
Amnesty: So-Called Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ becoming Smokescreen for continued Israeli Genocide
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concludes that, over a month after a ceasefire was agreed upon in Gaza and all living Israeli hostages […]
How Turkiye Plans to use the Spotlight of hosting the next UN Climate Summit
By Ezgi Unsal, SOAS, University of London (The Conversation) – In a break from tradition, the next major UN climate summit will be hosted by […]
How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian Hedonists
By Roman Krznaric | – ( Aeon ) – How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day […]
Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Contradictions pervaded the latest UN climate conference (COP30) held in Belem, Brazil. Progressive President Lula da Silva […]
From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26
Stanza no. 26 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám calls the notion of an afterlife a “lie” […]
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