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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

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Human Rights Watch | – – Witnesses Describe Executions (Erbil) – A mass grave discovered near Mosul by Iraqi Security Forces on November 7, 2016, […]

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Donald Trump
CNN's Chyron wonders if Jews are People, inspired by Trumpist Neofascism

CNN’s Chyron wonders if Jews are People, inspired by Trumpist Neofascism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Richard Spencer is a rock star of the Neofascist movement that hides behind the euphemism “alt-right.” […]

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Trump Effect:  Israel to Resume Construction of Thousands of “Frozen” Settlement Units

Trump Effect: Israel to Resume Construction of Thousands of “Frozen” Settlement Units

IMEMC News | – – The Israeli Planning and Construction Committee, on Sunday, announced that Israel intends to build thousands of new settlement units in […]

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Donald Trump
Now Trump's Targets:  Many US Latinos fled chaos of  Reagan's anti-Left crusade

Now Trump’s Targets: Many US Latinos fled chaos of Reagan’s anti-Left crusade

By Luis Gómez Romero | (The Conversation) | – – In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, United States president-elect Donald Trump highlighted some campaign […]

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Donald Trump
5 Trump Headlines more outrageous than the "Hamilton" Tiff

5 Trump Headlines more outrageous than the “Hamilton” Tiff

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is the master of misdirection, the techniques magicians use to get you to look elsewhere […]

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No to the New Normal

No to the New Normal

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The night after the election, this long-time pacifist dreamed she shot a big white man carrying […]

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Iraq
After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?

After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The fight against the [so-called] Islamic State [group, or IS] has united Iraqis. Details of a […]

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Bill of Rights
US: Trump's Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights

US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights

Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that […]

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Republican Party
Bad Rain Falling:  Who's to Blame for our Trump Catastrophe?

Bad Rain Falling: Who’s to Blame for our Trump Catastrophe?

By Todd Gitlin | (Billmoyers.com) | – – These days are for resistance to the abomination that has befallen us; as also for decent conduct […]

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