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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

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Top 4 Lessons Trump can Learn from Napoleon in Russia

Top 4 Lessons Trump can Learn from Napoleon in Russia

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s New York Times interview can only be understood, to the extent that it can be […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Morocco's Rif Revolt: Only a Democratic Response is Sufficient

Morocco’s Rif Revolt: Only a Democratic Response is Sufficient

By Hsain Ilahiane | (Informed Comment) | – – Since October 2016, the Berbers (Imazighen) of the Rif, a region on the Mediterranean coast of […]

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Empire of Destruction: Mosul reveals Myth of Precision Bombing

Empire of Destruction: Mosul reveals Myth of Precision Bombing

By Tom Engelhardt | (Via Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Trump hands Putin gift, cancels Support for Syrian Rebels

Trump hands Putin gift, cancels Support for Syrian Rebels

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous at WaPo report that Trump cancelled the CIA program to support […]

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What, or who, Explains Spike in Hate Crimes against US Muslims?

What, or who, Explains Spike in Hate Crimes against US Muslims?

By Brian Levin | (The Conversation) | – – Hate crimes against Muslims have been on the rise. The murder of two samaritans for aiding […]

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Yemen:  Saudi-led Airstrikes kill 28 civilian refugees

Yemen: Saudi-led Airstrikes kill 28 civilian refugees

TeleSur | – – Yemen has been ravaged by the ongoing war, which has claimed more than 10,000 people and caused a cholera outbreak among […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Protest: Religious leaders call on Jerusalem Palestinians to pray at Al-Aqsa on Friday

Protest: Religious leaders call on Jerusalem Palestinians to pray at Al-Aqsa on Friday

Ma`an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Members of the Waqf, or Islamic trust, in charge with running Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, called on […]

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Saudi, slamming Qatar for Extremism, arrests Model for wearing Skirt in Public

Saudi, slamming Qatar for Extremism, arrests Model for wearing Skirt in Public

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The intrepid Yaroslav Trofimov of WSJ said it all: Good luck to the Saudi PR campaign […]

Juan Cole

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One Year Later: Why the Purges in Turkey Were Always in the Pipeline

One Year Later: Why the Purges in Turkey Were Always in the Pipeline

By Sarphan Uzunoglu. | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – When it comes to Turkey, representatives of European Union countries—aided and abetted by Turkish liberals […]

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