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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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Syria unlikely to be Partitioned:  The Resilience of Colonial Borders

Syria unlikely to be Partitioned: The Resilience of Colonial Borders

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whenever a country falls into civil war, there are always observers who suggest that the problem […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Hating on "Foreigners" a key Plank of Trumpism: Can it be Fought?

Hating on “Foreigners” a key Plank of Trumpism: Can it be Fought?

By Ngaire Woods | (Project Syndication) | – – The New Xenophobia: OXFORD – Democratic governments in the West are increasingly losing their bearings. From […]

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Israel/ Palestine
How Israel's Blockade of Gaza Is Killing Women with Breast Cancer

How Israel’s Blockade of Gaza Is Killing Women with Breast Cancer

TeleSur | – – Since Israel began its siege of Gaza in 2007, hundreds of people have died needlessly, various reports state. Hundreds of Palestinian […]

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China
How China will run rings around Trump on Green Energy, and Win Big

How China will run rings around Trump on Green Energy, and Win Big

By Matthew Kahn | (The Conversation) | – – In mid-November, while Americans were preoccupied with election returns, China sent some of its clearest signals […]

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More districts of East Aleppo fall to Regime & Militia Allies

More districts of East Aleppo fall to Regime & Militia Allies

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Both regime sources and the Britain-based Syria Observatory said Tuesday that the Syrian Arab Army and […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
Russia/Syria: War Crimes in Month of Bombing Aleppo

Russia/Syria: War Crimes in Month of Bombing Aleppo

Human Rights Watch (New York) – The Russian-Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month-long aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in September […]

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Donald Trump
After Nov. 8:  Countdown to Doomsday

After Nov. 8: Countdown to Doomsday

By John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – I didn’t vote in the pivotal American election of 2016. Thirty-five years ago, in that unseasonably warm […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
White Terrorism in the White House? Did Trump's Bannon, Breitbart inspire Pizzeria Shooter?

White Terrorism in the White House? Did Trump’s Bannon, Breitbart inspire Pizzeria Shooter?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Imagine if they had been Muslims. What if a Muslim publication pushed a false conspiracy theory […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Did Trump's Son-In-Law Finance Israeli Extremists and Illegal Settlements?

Did Trump’s Son-In-Law Finance Israeli Extremists and Illegal Settlements?

TeleSur | – – Trump has said that Kushner, who is a married to Ivanka Trump and is an Orthodox Jew, would be “very good” […]

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