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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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Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial

Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial

TeleSur | – – Roof allegedly shot and massacred nine African-American churchgoers. Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with shooting up a Black church in […]

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Authoritarianism
The Last Days of Democracy?

The Last Days of Democracy?

By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | Foreign Policy in Focus | – – A fraudulent campaign has resulted in the election of a […]

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Donald Trump
Conspiracy Theorist in Chief: Trump’s falsehood about 2 mn. illegal votes only tip of Melting Iceberg

Conspiracy Theorist in Chief: Trump’s falsehood about 2 mn. illegal votes only tip of Melting Iceberg

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Americans have given the nuclear codes to that crazy uncle you have to sit through Thanksgiving […]

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Iraq
Does Turkey's Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?

Does Turkey’s Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?

By Lucy DerTavitian | (Informed Comment) | – – The battle over Mosul appears to have ignited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s expansionist Ottoman era […]

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Climate Change
Frackopoly

Frackopoly

by H. Patricia Hynes | ( Truthdig.com) | – – Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment A book by Wenonah […]

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Donald Trump
The Manhattan White House, the Secret Service, and the Painted Bikini Lady

The Manhattan White House, the Secret Service, and the Painted Bikini Lady

By Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – High above, somewhere behind the black glass façade, President-elect Donald J. Trump was huddled with his […]

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Displaced and Refugees
In Trump's Shadow, is East Aleppo on Verge of falling to Regime, Russia?

In Trump’s Shadow, is East Aleppo on Verge of falling to Regime, Russia?

By Juan Cole | – – In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its Russian backer have […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Maybe if most Americans knew who Berlusconi was they wouldn't have elected Trump

Maybe if most Americans knew who Berlusconi was they wouldn’t have elected Trump

By Bill Emmott | (Project Syndicate) | – – LONDON – For the past couple of weeks, the world has been guessing at how US […]

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Climate Change
The Catastrophic Downstream Effects of Trump Anti-Climatism

The Catastrophic Downstream Effects of Trump Anti-Climatism

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 2016 (IPS) – Although U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has hinted he […]

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