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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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As US throws Kurds under the Bus, Is Turkey preparing to invade Syria?

As US throws Kurds under the Bus, Is Turkey preparing to invade Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The BBC reports that Turkish armed forces are massed on the border with Syria in preparation […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Its Central Council calls on PLO to de-Recognize Israel, cease Security Cooperation

Its Central Council calls on PLO to de-Recognize Israel, cease Security Cooperation

IMEMC News | – – The second-highest decision-making body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) decided Monday to call on the executive committee to suspend […]

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Iran
Iran says planned US-backed force inside Syria would fan war

Iran says planned US-backed force inside Syria would fan war

Middle East Monitor | – – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday a new US-backed, 30,000-strong force inside Syria constituted a breach of international […]

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Donald Trump
Trump as the Termite-in-Chief boring away at Global American Influence

Trump as the Termite-in-Chief boring away at Global American Influence

By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – As 2017 ended with billionaires toasting their tax cuts and energy executives cheering their unfettered access […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Turkey threatens war against US/Kurdish Force in Syria

Turkey threatens war against US/Kurdish Force in Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US announcement that it would form a 30,000 strong policing force in northeast Syria from […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Washington State activists launch ‘Climate Countdown’ for Urgent Legislative Action

Washington State activists launch ‘Climate Countdown’ for Urgent Legislative Action

Brandon Jordan | (Waging Nonviolence) | – – Climate Countdown activists rallied outside the Washington state capitol building in Olympia last week (Twitter / 350 […]

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Climate Change
Not Fighting Climate Change cost $1.5 Trillion Last Year & it is only the Beginning

Not Fighting Climate Change cost $1.5 Trillion Last Year & it is only the Beginning

By Mark Trahant | ( TrahantReports.com ) | – – The Trump administration, and its allies in Congress, are fighting a losing war. They continue […]

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Displaced and Refugees
UN Slams Saudi Arabia for Human Rights Atrocities in Yemen

UN Slams Saudi Arabia for Human Rights Atrocities in Yemen

TeleSur | – – Widespread destruction from the U.S-backed Saudi airstrikes has displaced over a million people in the region. A U.N. report on human […]

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Africa
What Africa taught the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What Africa taught the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In 1957 Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta went to Ghana in connection with its […]

Juan Cole

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