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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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US Navy Plans Detention Camps for Tens of Thousands of Immigrants on Remote Bases

US Navy Plans Detention Camps for Tens of Thousands of Immigrants on Remote Bases

The US Navy plans to build sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases

AFP

Saudi Arabia
The Real Reason Saudi Arabi Lifted its Ban on Women Driving: Economic Necessity

The Real Reason Saudi Arabi Lifted its Ban on Women Driving: Economic Necessity

Odense (The Conversation) – After years of campaigning by women activists, on June 24 the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia will be lifted. […]

Martin Hvidt

Climate Change
US Leaks 60 Percent more Heat-Trapping Methane than Government Says

US Leaks 60 Percent more Heat-Trapping Methane than Government Says

US industry emits some 13 million metric tons of climate-change inducing methane each year, said the findings published in the journal Science.

AFP

Children
#Bringbackourgirls: How Trump made the US into Boko Haram

#Bringbackourgirls: How Trump made the US into Boko Haram

One of the horrible practices of the radical group was stealing children from their parents and making them disappear into “social death”

Juan Cole

Climate Change
CO2 Catastrophe for Egypt: Rising Seas, Salinization to Displace 5 mn by 2025

CO2 Catastrophe for Egypt: Rising Seas, Salinization to Displace 5 mn by 2025

Cairo (Middle East Monitor) – The climate change on Egypt’s northern coast is expected to lead to the migration of at least five million people […]

Middle East Monitor

Immigration
How Trump's Executive Order Reversing Family Separation just Makes Things Worse

How Trump’s Executive Order Reversing Family Separation just Makes Things Worse

The executive order includes no provision to reunite the 2,300 separated families and illegally proposes to detain children indefinitely. Caracas (TeleSur) – United States President […]

TeleSur

Immigration
At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers

At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers

“Some of the mothers could see their children but couldn’t get near to them, some of them couldn’t see them.”

Leila Macor

African-Americans
Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet

Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet

The disproportionately high rate at which unarmed black people die at the hands of police has an impact on the mental health of black Americans

AFP

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Not only Is Trump's Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int'l Law

Not only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int’l Law

The US is a signatory state to a 1967 protocol that binds it to act in concert with the UN High Commissioner on Refugees

Juan Cole

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