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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

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Comeygate: How Orwell can Explain why Trump keeps Changing his Story

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – The Trump administration seems intent on tossing recent history down the memory hole. Admittedly, Americans have […]

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Climate Change
Only Putin is happy with Trump's NATO Bull-in-China-Shop Catastrophe

Only Putin is happy with Trump’s NATO Bull-in-China-Shop Catastrophe

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Back in 2016 the talking heads on tv kept expecting candidate Trump, who made headlines almost daily saying racist […]

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Thousands protest against Trump in ‘hellhole’ Brussels

Thousands protest against Trump in ‘hellhole’ Brussels

EurActiv.com | – – Thousands of protesters carrying effigies of Donald Trump marched through Brussels on Wednesday (24 May) after the US president arrived for […]

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Iran: Does the Rouhani Win Matter for Human Rights?

Iran: Does the Rouhani Win Matter for Human Rights?

By Tara Sepehri Far. | ( Human Rights Watch ) | – – In Second Term, Should Move on Rights Reforms When the 2017 election […]

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Iran
What Iranian women want: rights, jobs and a seat at the table

What Iranian women want: rights, jobs and a seat at the table

By Azadeh Davachi | (The Conversation) | – – Issues affecting women were conspicuously absent from Iran’s 2017 presidential election. That’s unless one finds useful […]

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Arab Americans
US Reputation under Trump Tanking, Costing Economy Billions

US Reputation under Trump Tanking, Costing Economy Billions

By Daniel Korschun, Boryana V Dimitrova, and Yoto V. Yotov | (The Conversation) | – – U.S. News and World Report recently published its annual […]

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Pope to Trump:  Climate Change is Real and we have to act in Solidarity

Pope to Trump: Climate Change is Real and we have to act in Solidarity

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Pope Francis gave Donald J. Trump a going away present after their meeting on Wednesday. It […]

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Boycott Trump!  Hit him where it Hurts

Boycott Trump! Hit him where it Hurts

By Mattea Kramer | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In normal times, Dee from New York would have ordered her copy of The Handmaid’s […]

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What is the Sunni-Shiite Divide into Which Trump just Stepped?

What is the Sunni-Shiite Divide into Which Trump just Stepped?

Ken Chitwood | (The Conversation) | – – In his address in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, May 21, while calling on Muslim leaders to lead […]

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