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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*
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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

08/27/2025 By Juan Cole

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

08/27/2025 By Andrea Mazzarino

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Trump v. the World:  Is Diplomacy Dead?

Trump v. the World: Is Diplomacy Dead?

By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Donald Trump has a plan to solve America’s drug crisis: kill the drug dealers. “We have […]

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Netherlands to Build 1st Wholly unsubsidized Offshore Wind Farms

Netherlands to Build 1st Wholly unsubsidized Offshore Wind Farms

By Sam Morgan | EURACTIV.com The Dutch government has begun to follow through on its renewable energy pledges by awarding Swedish firm Vattenfall two contracts […]

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Palestine RIP

Palestine RIP

By Hossam Shaker | (Middle East Monitor) | – – They do not want to recognise the truth. The project of an independent Palestinian state […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Trump Happy, Bolton Sad? Syrian Regime claims 90% of E. Ghouta as 105k civilians Flee

Trump Happy, Bolton Sad? Syrian Regime claims 90% of E. Ghouta as 105k civilians Flee

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – One of the last major rebel enclaves in Syria, East Ghouta, is near to falling back […]

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Guns
The March for Our Lives in Pictures: Massive Crowds Mourn Victims, Condemn Complicit Politicians

The March for Our Lives in Pictures: Massive Crowds Mourn Victims, Condemn Complicit Politicians

By Julia Conley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org ) | – – “Who here is going to vote in the 2018 election? If you listen real […]

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Omar Khayyam
For World Poetry Day, Verses Straight From Persia’s Heart

For World Poetry Day, Verses Straight From Persia’s Heart

By Salam Aleik | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – How might someone in Tajikistan, the only Persian-speaking republic in the former Soviet Union, describe a […]

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Donald Trump
Can Isolationist Trump and Neocon NSC Pick Bolton really Get Along?

Can Isolationist Trump and Neocon NSC Pick Bolton really Get Along?

By Carl Schreck | ( RFE/RL) | – – While U.S. President Donald Trump has previously denounced “regime change” and “nation-building,” John Bolton, his choice […]

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censorship
Before phony polls, Egypt arrests, expels Times reporter Bel Trew

Before phony polls, Egypt arrests, expels Times reporter Bel Trew

Middle East Monitor | – – Egypt has deported a British journalist working for The Times, the newspaper said on Saturday, describing an “increasingly oppressive […]

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Budget Bill: Even GOP Congress defies Trump on Green Energy Funding

Budget Bill: Even GOP Congress defies Trump on Green Energy Funding

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Emma Foehringer Merchant at Greentech Media reports that the GOP Congress defied Trump’s priorities on green […]

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