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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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Iran Faces a new Phase of Isolation if Europe Reimposes Sanctions for its Nuclear Program

Iran Faces a new Phase of Isolation if Europe Reimposes Sanctions for its Nuclear Program

With Germany at the helm and regional tensions mounting, the diplomatic window may be closing Braga, Portugal and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment, […]

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza is Starving and the World Looks Away

Gaza is Starving and the World Looks Away

By Adnan Hmidan ( Middle East Monitor ) – In Gaza, mornings no longer begin with the sound of explosions — but with the quiet, […]

Middle East Monitor

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Kneecap’s Support for Gaza is in an Irish Tradition of Standing with the Oppressed

Kneecap’s Support for Gaza is in an Irish Tradition of Standing with the Oppressed

By Ciara Smart, University of Tasmania (The Conversation) – Love them or hate them, there’s no doubt Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap are having a moment. […]

The Conversation

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25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now:  Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths”

25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now: Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths”

The foreign ministers of 25 nations, including much of Europe along with Japan, Canada and Australia, have issued a Joint Statement demanding that the Israeli […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Protesting Georgetown U’s Sanctioning of Prof. Jonathan Brown for Speaking out on Iran War

Protesting Georgetown U’s Sanctioning of Prof. Jonathan Brown for Speaking out on Iran War

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to Georgetown University protesting its statements and actions with regard […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Climate Crisis
How Electric Vehicles and Water Heaters are turning Cities into giant Batteries

How Electric Vehicles and Water Heaters are turning Cities into giant Batteries

By Bin Lu, Australian National University and Marnie Shaw, Australian National University (The Conversation) – As the electrification of transport and heating accelerates, many worry […]

The Conversation

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Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving People in Gaza

Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving People in Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has destroyed most of the cropland in Gaza and won’t let Palestinians fish. There isn’t enough food […]

Juan Cole

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Israel is exploiting the Vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian Clashes and a weak State

Israel is exploiting the Vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian Clashes and a weak State

By Rob Geist Pinfold, King’s College London (The Conversation) – Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria brought the fledgling government […]

The Conversation

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Whose Country is this, Anyway: The Struggle to Survive Trump

Whose Country is this, Anyway: The Struggle to Survive Trump

The Struggle to Thrive and Not Just Barely Survive in Trump’s America By Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Most days, in […]

Liz Theoharis

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