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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Islam
Cole’s ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace’ an NYT Editor’s Choice Book

Cole’s ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace’ an NYT Editor’s Choice Book

Many thanks to the New York Times for recommending my new book, ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires:’ Editors’ Choice: “11 New […]

Juan Cole

Syria
The US Should Leave Syria, but Must Protect its Kurds from Turkey

The US Should Leave Syria, but Must Protect its Kurds from Turkey

A small detachment of U.S. troops won’t protect the Kurds from Turkish aggression, but putting conditions on arms transfers might.

Stephen Zunes

Islamophobia
Can Online anti-Muslim Hate Speech be Combated? There's an App for that

Can Online anti-Muslim Hate Speech be Combated? There’s an App for that

By Bertie Vidgen and Taha Yasseri | – In a landmark move, a group of MPs recently published a working definition of the term Islamophobia. […]

The Conversation

Syria
Al-Qaeda-Linked Guerrillas make Gains in Northwest Syria

Al-Qaeda-Linked Guerrillas make Gains in Northwest Syria

Tahrir al-Sham, formerly affiliated to al Qaeda, had launched an attack on Tuesday against towns in the western countryside of Aleppo

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Trump Spews Incomprehensible Nonsense on Kurds, Syria, Afghanistan

Trump Spews Incomprehensible Nonsense on Kurds, Syria, Afghanistan

“A Commentary on the words that spewed from Trump’s mouth at his news conference during a cabinet meeting on January 2, 2019,” or, “A Ph.D. […]

Juan Cole

Bahrain
Bahrain Upholds 5-Year Sentence on Critic of Yemen War, Human Rights Violations

Bahrain Upholds 5-Year Sentence on Critic of Yemen War, Human Rights Violations

Nabeel Rajab Sentenced to Remain Behind Bars Until 2023

Human Rights Watch

Israel
Will Israeli PM Netanyahu be Defeated by the Far-Right Monster he Created?

Will Israeli PM Netanyahu be Defeated by the Far-Right Monster he Created?

The leaders of the ‘Jewish Home’ are now the leaders of the ‘New Right’.

Maan News Agency

Environmentalism
Can the Green New Deal Save the Planet *and* Create Jobs?

Can the Green New Deal Save the Planet *and* Create Jobs?

By Norah Vawter | – (Otherwords.org) – Lately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, […]

Norah Vawter

Holocaust
Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring murder rates during the Nazi genocide

Hitler “ordered all action speeded up.”

The Conversation

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