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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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Justice Roberts used bad Data to end Voting Rights Act & other shoddy SCOTUS Mistakes

Justice Roberts used bad Data to end Voting Rights Act & other shoddy SCOTUS Mistakes

By Ryan Gabrielson | ( ProPublica ) | – – ProPublica review adds fuel to a longstanding worry about the nation’s highest court: The justices […]

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Afghanistan
"Tell me how this Ends"- Gen. Petraeus has decided Forever War Doesn't

“Tell me how this Ends”- Gen. Petraeus has decided Forever War Doesn’t

Will we bequeath Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Korea to our Grandchildren?

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Donald Trump
3 ways Trump's nuclear strategy misunderstands Iran's Mood

3 ways Trump’s nuclear strategy misunderstands Iran’s Mood

Iranian public opinion rejects further sanctions and is ready to walk away from deal

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Donald Trump
No, It Wasn't Iran: Top 7 Reasons Baghdad took Kirkuk

No, It Wasn’t Iran: Top 7 Reasons Baghdad took Kirkuk

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Iraqi Army and its Shiite militia adjuncts have taken Kirkuk city and raised the Iraqi […]

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France
France's Macron slams Trump 'Bad Policy' by Mulling Iran Visit, Seeking Trade

France’s Macron slams Trump ‘Bad Policy’ by Mulling Iran Visit, Seeking Trade

TeleSur Macron’s visit to Iran would be the first by a French head of state or government since 1976. Widening transatlantic divisions are coming into […]

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Addiction
Legal weed: An accidental solution to the opioid crisis?

Legal weed: An accidental solution to the opioid crisis?

Colorado experiment yielding evidence

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Development
Morocco's Solar Power Revolution Sparks Jobs, High-Tech Investment

Morocco’s Solar Power Revolution Sparks Jobs, High-Tech Investment

Concentrating Solar becoming engine of development, according to World Bank

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Buddhism
Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi's whitewash

Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi’s whitewash

By Ellen Wiles< | (The Conversation) | - - It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at […]

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Donald Trump
In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad

In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The “Voice of Iraq” reports that last night artillery duels broke out between Iraqi army forces […]

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